Finding the Perfect Mate

Dear Lord,

I pray that unless Your plan is for my children and Grandchildren to remain single, that You will send the perfect marriage partner for these children. Send the right husband or wife at the perfect time, and give them a clear leading from You as to who it is. I pray that these children will be submissive enough to hear Your voice when it comes time to make a marriage decision, and that they will make that decision based on what You are saying and not just fleshly desire. I pray that they will learn to trust You with all their heart and not lean on their own understanding; that they will acknowledge You in all they do so that You will direct their paths. (Proverbs 3:5-6)
I pray that You will prepare the person who will make the perfect mate for each of these children. Help these kids to know the difference between simply falling in love and knowing for certain this is the person with whom God wants them to spend the rest of their life with. If any of them become attracted to someone they should not marry, I pray that You, Lord, would cut off that relationship. Help them to realize that unless You are at the center of the marriage, it will never stand! Unless You bless it, it will not be blessed. For Your Word says, "Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it" (Psalm 127:1) I pray that You would build the marriage around which their house is established.
When any of these children find the right one to marry, I pray that person will be a godly and devoted servant of Yours, who loves You and lives Your way, and will be like a son or daughter to me and a blessing to all other family members. Once they are married, let there be no divorce in their future. May there never be any mental, emotional, and physical unity that is never touched by division. I pray for their deliverance from any spirit of divorce, separation, or disunity that would attempt to drive a wedge into their relationship.Protect them Lord from physical abuse, and if that is part of their lives I pray You would deliver them from it or change the person. Give them each a strong desire to live in fidelity, and remove any temptation to infidelity.
May each of them have one mate for life who is their closest friend. May they be mutually loyal, compassionate, considerate, sensitive, respectful, affectionate, forgiving, supportive, caring, and loving toward one another all the days of their lives.

I ask this all according to Your good and perfect will,
In Jesus' holy name,
Amen


(The Power of a Praying Parent--Stormie Omartian)


WEAPONS OF WARFARE:

Mark 10:6-9 (Amplified Bible)
6)But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.(A)
7)For this reason a man shall leave [behind] his father and his mother and be joined to his wife and cleave closely to her permanently,
8)And the two shall become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9)What therefore God has united (joined together), let not man separate or divide.


Hebrews 13:4 (Amplified Bible)
Let marriage be held in honor (esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear) in all things. And thus let the marriage bed be undefiled (kept undishonored); for God will judge and punish the unchaste [all guilty of sexual vice] and adulterous.


Mark 10:11 (Amplified Bible)
And He said to them, Whoever [a]dismisses (repudiates and divorces) his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.


Proverbs 18:22 (Amplified Bible)
He who finds a [true] wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.


Malachi 2:13-16 (Amplified Bible)
13)And this you do with double guilt; you cover the altar of the Lord with tears [shed by your unoffending wives, divorced by you that you might take heathen wives], and with [your own] weeping and crying out because the Lord does not regard your offering any more or accept it with favor at your hand.
14)Yet you ask, Why does He reject it? Because the Lord was witness [to the covenant made at your marriage] between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously and to whom you were faithless. Yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant [made by your marriage vows].
15)And did not God make [you and your wife] one [flesh]? Did not One make you and preserve your spirit alive? And why [did God make you two] one? Because He sought a godly offspring [from your union]. Therefore take heed to yourselves, and let no one deal treacherously and be faithless to the wife of his youth.
16)For the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I hate divorce and marital separation and him who covers his garment [his wife] with violence. Therefore keep a watch upon your spirit [that it may be controlled by My Spirit], that you deal not treacherously and faithlessly [with your marriage mate].