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🗓️ 6 February 2024
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Ep 163 - The two of us used to be HUGE proponents of the
"praying for your future husband" concept. I, Bethany, wrote letters and prayers for my future husband from age 14-30 when I got married. That's a lot of time spent thinking and dreaming about someone that might not have even existed.
Is it a good idea for single Christian women to focus on a future husband?
In today's episode, we're going to unpack the pros and cons of praying for your future husband.
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0:00.0 | Today on the Girl the Fine show, we are talking about whether or not single Christian women should pray for their future husbands. |
0:05.2 | That is something that I did. I literally wrote an entire box of prayers and letters to my future husband |
0:11.0 | hoping, dreaming, praying that one day this man would come into existence |
0:15.0 | and I could gift him these letters. |
0:16.8 | And now as a woman who's been actually married for several years, I look back and I'm like, |
0:20.9 | what is that the best idea? Is that biblical? Like, is this a good thing for single |
0:25.6 | women to do? I mean, you think praying, like, of course it's always good to pray, but is it actually |
0:30.3 | good to pray for a man that may or may not exist. Let's jump in. |
0:35.0 | Hey Sisterhood, it is Kristen and Bethany here. |
0:40.0 | We are sisters and so pumped that you're joining us for this conversation because for us this is kind of |
0:44.1 | like full circle yeah when we first start a girl to find we talked a lot about praying |
0:49.3 | for your future husband the power of praying for him strategies to pray for him five ways to |
0:53.5 | pray for him a free download to pray for him I mean we had it all this is probably like |
0:56.7 | eight nine I don't know ten years ago and we've had a lot of time to think in fact I |
1:01.7 | am coming on 13 years of marriage |
1:03.8 | which is crazy so even back then when we start a girl to find I had only been |
1:07.0 | married for a couple years and I was fresh off of that like dating before that |
1:11.0 | praying for my future husband and so as time has gone on and we've |
1:14.3 | talked to a lot of single women and just re-evaluated our own hearts and our |
1:17.3 | singleness and this whole idea and this kind of cultural Christian push |
1:21.5 | for single women to pray for your future husbands. |
1:23.7 | We've had some conversations and we're like, you know what? |
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