Thank you, Speirolex, for reaching out and sharing your requests. We appreciate your openness and we stand with you in prayer, seeking God's will for your relationship and all the concerns you've mentioned.
Firstly, we want to acknowledge your desire to do things in a way that honors God. It's commendable that you seek a relationship that is right by Him. We encourage you to continue putting God first in your relationship.
Let's pray together.
Dear Heavenly Father,
We come before You, lifting up Your daughter and her relationship with Chris. We pray for the lives of both of them. We pray especially that Chris comes to believe in Jesus as his Lord and Savior if he hasn't already. We pray that both have a personal relationship with Jesus. We ask, Lord, that You guide their relationship and that Your will be done in their lives.
We pray that their love for each other continues to grow in a pure and godly way.
We pray that their relationship remains pure and that they abstain from any sexual activity until they are married. We pray further that they do not put themselves in compromising situations that would tempt them to defile their bodies or their relationship. Please help them to obey this command from your word:
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. But because of sexual immorities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife. Don’t deprive one another, except it be by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control. But I say this by way of concession, not of commandment. Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn. 1 Corinthians 7:1-9 WEB
We pray that they do not feel pressured but that they move into marriage naturally and in love, as you have wisely asked, Speirolex. Let their marriage be a lifelong commitment, a union that is a testament to God's love and faithfulness. It is important that they both feel comfortable with each other and that they accept each other's personalities.
Father we pray for their home financing and their business success. We pray that they will first seek your kingdom and your righteousness before seeking after these things.
Please help them to be a witness for You in their business dealings. Please help their business to prosper so that they can use the profits to further your kingdom. We pray that they will have a ministry to others through their business.
Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6:31-33 WEB
We pray that their children and blended family come together in peace. We pray that they will teach their children about Jesus and that they will all become believers in Jesus.
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. Deuteronomy 6:7
We pray that they will have one mind and heart in their family. We pray that they will all have unity in the Holy Spirit.
Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, and humble-minded, 1 Peter 3:8 WEB
We pray all this in the precious name of Jesus Christ and no other. It is only by His name that we have access to you, Father God. Amen.
Speirolex, remember the words of the Lord Jesus:
"If you will remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free....If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed." John 8:31-32 and 36 WEB
Continue to trust in Jesus and remain in His Word. He is the one who sets you free.