Just trust GOD! He knows what you need, when you need it.

He did it for me 18 -20 years ago when I was in my late teens and early 20′s. I was looking around at all the possible places for a strong available Christian man to marry. I went often to other churches in our area and observed the young men who came into my own church. None were solid or not interested in me. I was not sure a great guy would ever be able to find me.

WELL! My mom wisely told me to stay put in our church and stop going to other church functions. She instructed me to ask God to bring my husband to me through our own church doors. So I did as she said. When I was around 20, my husband literally walked through our church doors and made our church his home church from that day on.

God has your address at all times. He surely knows who would be a wonderful husband for you. While living life to the fullest with contentment right now, pray and wait patiently in expectation for God to bring him into your life!

Caralee

The word search was very interesting. One of the verses on stubbornness that really struck me was 1 Sam. 15:23, “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.” Wow. That really puts it into perspective. In Deut. 21:18-21, the Lord commands that a stubborn son is to be stoned!

This past year, I really learned what ‘stubborn’ means… by my own actions and attitude. I did not like to listen to my parents’ advice, thinking God would guide me– and not through them! (What was I thinking?) I see now how foolish this attitude is and pray I do not fall prey to it again. Like many of you ladies have said, God guides us through older people in our lives who give us godly counsel and advice.
The difference between stubbornness and wisdom is to *seek* and *receive* counsel from people whom I know are godly– in my case, my parents. I thought that when I became an “adult” I should immediately start making important and life decisions on my own– oh, with help from the Lord. For some reason I thought my parents were then out of the picture. Wrong!

Mrs. Pearl says to read the books Ruth and Esther. In both stories both heroines are loyal to some kind of authority, or older person. They refer to that figure and look to them for guidance, because they know that God speaks through them. Ruth made her own decision to stay with Naomi when the latter told her to go back to her own people. Yet in the rest of the story, she wisely obeys her mother-in-law because she (prayerfully) discerns that it is God’s will for her to do so. Something that stuck out to me in Ruth’s story was what Mrs. Pearl mentioned: Ruth knew that to be loyal to and serve her mother was to reduce her chances of marrying again. She chose to follow God’s leading rather than her own human wants and dreams.
Why then am I so worried about whether or not God can find me a husband in whatever circumstances I am? I am increasingly convinced that I am exactly where God wants me to be at the present time, and if I am to be married, He’ll guide my man to where I am!

Sorry this is so long. I’m enjoying and being edified by all the posts!