Prayer #1 and #2

Prayer #1 4/13/10
I actually didn't write this one out, but I prayed for obedience. I prayed that he would be obedient to the things which God was calling him to in this season, and especially this day; that he would know the fruit of obedience and that he wouldn't be rebellious about where God was taking him and what God was showing him.

Prayer #2 4/14/10
Dear God I pray for hope. I pray that he would have hope in his heart for all the things you have called him to; that his heart would be big and spacious enough for the dreams you've given him and that he would know You as the kind of God who cared about his dreams. I pray that he would experience and know you as the God who longs to see our hearts full of hope and expectation because you are a good God who knows we need fulfillment to live. I pray that if there are any areas of disappointment and hopelessness, You would deal with them. I pray that his heart would always be open to the thing that You are doing; that he would have the courage to see what you are showing him and the grace to accept himself as You accept him. Abba for more of your love and energy to abound in his being; that he would feel and know that You are the living God, the uncreated one. Holy Spirit please guide him in all the places he needs to go. Surround him with love and compassion for himself. I pray that no areas of hopelessness remain in his heart.

Introduction

The purpose of this blog is to keep my mind and heart set on the person God has for me. I know that somewhere in a different time, in the future, I'm married to an amazing man and we are creating an incredible home and family. Unfortunately or fortunately I experience time in a linear fashion, so I've got to wait. Don't get me wrong, I'm a very active person who has a successful career and full social calendar. I'm just really wanting a "partner in crime" at this point in my life. So while I wait and continually get asked out by men who don't love Jesus, I decided my waiting doesn't have to be passive. I can pray and play a role in my future husband's life, today. Because who knows, maybe he's in a spot where he needs a lot of prayers. I don't know, but you never know.

The idea for this blog came through a process of self-discovery. Sometime last year, God gave me this idea of asking Him to give me a million prayers for my husband. I thought this was great because this way I could take some of that lonely, "what am I doing wrong," "where the hell is he?" "is it ever going to happen?" energy and channel it in a useful direction.

Yesterday, I was in the shower, where most great ideas are birthed when I wondered what had become of my petition for a million prayers to God concerning my future husband (hereto referred to as MFH). Nothing happened to it. I had prayed perhaps half a dozen times and I couldn't remember what about specifically. My petition was unsuccessful in getting me to pray for my husband more, and I decided that rather than think about the million, I would ask God for a prayer a day for MFH. I decided to blog it each day so that I'd be held accountable to ask God each day for a prayer. It will also be an interesting experiment when MFH becomes just MH and we look back at this blog and see what he was doing at those times when I was praying, and see how God was speaking to me about him, even though I didn't know MH then.

**This is not about "the one" because I don't believe that there is only one person out there for me. My theory on "the one": It is merely a numbers game, and in that I am only one person and I intend on only getting married once, there is one man out there who will hopefully be the one that I marry.