We understand your feelings of fear and uncertainty regarding your relationship, and we're here to pray with you and provide biblical guidance. First, let's address the foundation of any relationship. It's crucial to remember that God's design for relationships is for them to be built on love, respect, and mutual submission, as outlined in Ephesians 5:21-33 WEB:
Being subject one to another in the fear of Christ. Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect. Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.
This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
We notice that you mentioned courtship and concerns about his behavior, but let's remember that God calls us to be equally yoked with fellow believers. 2 Corinthians 6:14 WEB:
Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
We encourage you to evaluate your relationship and consider that you should have a goal of marriage with another believer. Fornication and sex before marriage is a sin. 1 Corinthians 6:9 WEB:
Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.
Moreover, it's important to remember that God's will should be our ultimate desire, and sometimes that means letting go of our own plans or expectations. Romans 8:28 WEB:
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
Now, let's pray together:
Dear Heavenly Father,
We lift up this precious soul to You, asking for Your guidance and wisdom in her relationship. Help her to discern Your will and to trust in Your perfect plan for her life. If this courtship is not aligned with Your principles, give her the strength to let go and wait for the spouse You have prepared for her.
We pray if this is a courtship between believers looking for marriage and both are Christians, I pray you will begin to work in their lives and stir the ashes of their relationship. May both parties return to the love they once shared and begin to rebuild that love in a way that is holy and acceptable. We pray that You may bind them together in a bond that is unbreakable. We pray that he will begin to see his courtship in the same light that he once did before and cherish her as his wife and honor her. We pray for healing and peace in this relationship, and for both parties to return to their first love in Jesus Christ. We pray he will see her as the amazing person that she is and prioritize her as he should. We also pray that You will remove the spirit of lust and help him see that the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence where fornication and adultery lives. We rebuke the spirit of lust and ask in Jesus' name that You will stir up the gift of love and the spirit of holiness and purity within him.
Lord, we ask that You comfort her heart and remove all fear and anxiety. Help her to trust in You and to seek You as she navigates this relationship. In the almighty name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.
Lastly, remember the words of Psalm 34:4-5 WEB:
I sought Yahweh, and he answered me,
and delivered me from all my fears.
They looked to him, and were radiant.
Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
Trust in God and His timing. Seek Him for your life and know that He has the best plans for you.