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Some Ideas on How to Pray for Your Child's Future Spouse

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8 years ago
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Parents are responsible to create the environment for two decisions that every child has to make:
* Who Jesus is.
* Who they choose to marry.
Here are some ideas on how to pray for your child's future spouse.

1. Ask God

Train up a child in the way he should go [teaching him to seek God’s wisdom and will for his abilities and talents],
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Pro 22:6, AMP

1 a. Ask God for His input about your child, a prophetic word on God's specific call, plans & purposes for your child. It is never too early to ask, even before your child is conceived or too late, even after the wedding. God is able to make everything beautiful in His time. The omnipotent God has the capacity to redeem any time or opportunity that you think that you may lost.
1 b. The Nike Principle: Just do it. Now.
1 c. The Adidas Principle: Impossible is Nothing.
1 d. Pray for your child to seek after God's own heart. That they would complete a spouse who is also earnestly seeking God's heart.

2. After His own heart

But now your kingdom shall not continue; the Lord has sought out [David] a man after His own [a]heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince and ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.
1 Sam 13:14 AMPC

2 a. Pray for your child's spouse to be a Christian man or woman who is after God's own heart. One who seeks God with all His heart.
2 b. Pray for your child's spouse to have a focus on enforcing God's government on the earth.

3. Where you go I will go

16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people, and your God, my God. 17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord do the same to me [as He has done to you], and more also, if anything but death separates me from you.”
Ruth 1:16-17 AMP

3 a. Pray for a faithful one to her/his husband/wife & her/his husband's/wife's family.
3 b. Pray for one who has a mindset of legacy, of multi-generational impact.

4. More ideas

Word, Holy Spirit, Love & You are the best resources to pray for your child's spouse. In case, you're more comfortable with the regular how to do or 5 steps to sermons, here's a traditional how to, what to do checklist, from Pamela Dowd.

Help my child's spouse to remain a virgin. Guard him from "outer-course" (petting experiences); abuse; harassment; and pornographic content in music, photographs, and movies (Col. 3:5).
Make my child's spouse a man after God's own heart, a maturing Christian who can take a spiritual leadership role that encourages my daughter toward deeper spiritual growth (Eph. 5:25–28).
Develop in my child's mate a desire to seek and ask forgiveness when wrong from both God and man (1 John 1:8–9).
Show my daughter's spouse what you want him to do with his life. Help him to seek your purpose for his creation (1 Tim. 4:12).
Teach my child's spouse the basics of spiritual warfare, how to flee temptation, how to take thoughts captive, and how to stand firm against the devil's schemes (1 Pet. 5:8–9, 2 Cor. 10:3–5, James 4:7–8).
Help my daughter's spouse to become a master of good, uplifting communication. Protect him from foul language and angry response (Col. 3:8).
Give my child's spouse deep, satisfying personal relationships that will prepare him for marriage without compromising his purity (1 Thess. 4:3–8).
Teach my daughter's spouse to be a good parent. Give his parents good parenting skills, and, if not, provide him with a godly role model. Be the Father to the fatherless if he has no father (Ps. 68:5–6).
Give my child's spouse a hunger for God through prayer and Bible study (Matt. 13:23).
Help my daughter's spouse to make a commitment to the truth, to choose honesty in every situation, even when tempted to lie to lessen punishment or consequences (Eph. 4:25).
Give my daughter's spouse a proper attitude toward money in giving, receiving, and working. Help him learn how to budget, save, and tithe (1 Tim. 6:6–11).
Make my child's spouse considerate and sensitive, a giving, loving Christian man who can place others needs before his own without losing his personal identity (1 John. 3:16–18).
Pamela Dowd

5. Imitate me

Imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
1 Cor 11:1 AMP

5.1 Praying without modelling Christ, epitomises hypocrisy. Your little girl may happen to marry a man just like you.
          Are you the man you that you would like 
          your daughter to be married to?
5.2 Do you love your wife like Christ loves the church?
         How does your marriage define love & 
         marriage to your children?
5.3 And gave Himself for her?

6. Till death do us part.

16 Rejoice always and delight in your faith; 17 be unceasing and persistent in prayer; 18 in every situation [no matter what the circumstances] be thankful and continually give thanks to God; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Ths 5:16-18 AMP

6.1 Pray joyfully expecting, anticipating good things for your children & your family.
6.2 After the wedding, continue praying through the marriage, till death parts you & the married couple.

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