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Genesis chapter 24, verses 15 and 16.

Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebecca, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milka,

the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder.

The young woman was very attractive in appearance,

a maiden whom no man had known.

She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.

This is the first appearance in the Bible of Rebecca, who would become Isaac's wife as Abraham's servant has gone out from Abraham to find a wife for Isaac.

And from the very beginning, we have a picture of Rebecca's beauty, and really in a deeper way,

God's provision of a wife for Abraham's son, Isaac.

As I read these verses, I think about something I pray for my children, at least once a week, every week, many times on multiple

days during the week. I pray continually for my kids that God would either cause them, help them,

lead them to thrive in singleness in a 1 Corinthians chapter 7 kind of

way that if God grants them singleness, that they would live as singles with urgency for the spread

of the gospel and they would maximize singleness toward that end.

Or that if God caused them to be married, that he would provide a spouse, a wife for my boys,

a husband, for my daughter, that loves the Lord with all their heart and soul and mind and strength and loves others selflessly. That's the two things I pray continually for a future spouse, if God so leads for my children,

that this spouse would love God wholeheartedly and love them and others selflessly.

So I want to lead us to pray based on these two verses for either our lives if you are single,

for these things, for a thriving in singleness, and for if

God and his wisdom wills, for a spouse who loves God wholeheartedly and will love you and

others selflessly.

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