This prayer focuses on personal growth and preparation, asking for a marriage that will be rooted in God’s love and truth. It emphasizes surrendering to God’s timing, trusting in His plans, and seeking to be shaped into a person who can honor Him in marriage.
“Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain” (Psalm 127:1).
God make all things beautiful in their time (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
Grow in the qualities of love described in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7: to be patient and kind, not easily angered, not keeping a record of wrongs. Teach me to love selflessly and sacrificially, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her (Ephesians 5:25).
Trusting that God’s plans are far greater than mine (Jeremiah 29:11)
