I came across this article online and I thought it was for me. I've never prayed about my love life. I feel like it's just too petty or insignificant but now i know talking to God about my love life is an important thing to do.
I ask God to guard my heart, protect my weaknesses but i just realized there's a lot more to commit to God.
Our desire for love can be so consuming and that explains why we need to spend sometime praying for our love life...yea the time we waste worrying, analyzing and trying to figure things out.
The five aspects of our love life we need to pray about
1. Trust
The search for the right person to date is a huge one. We spend so much time asking ourselves questions..important questions like How would I know? What would be the signs? What if I chose the wrong person? What if I messed it up? The best way to start praying for your love life–is to ask God to increase your trust. Trust requires a shift in perspective–that allows God to carry the burden of the what-ifs and the unknowns.
2. For Healing
A lot of work has to be done here,
The work I’m talking about is the work of healing. Insecurities, fears, anger, selfishness, and pride. The list goes on and on. This healing needs to take place in our actions and reactions to the world around us-and penetrate all the way into our hearts. We need to pray for more healing during our time as singles.Healing from sin, from struggles, and from temptations.
We need to be healed from a lot of things so we can enjoy a strong and healthy relationship,
3. For Wisdom
God grants wisdom to those who ask for it. Wisdom to make good choices, to see right from wrong, and to live a life of responsibility. I would have asked for wisdom to walk away from the open-doors that were harmful, and wisdom to be patient on the ones that seemed to be closed. As you pray for love, ask God for wisdom- and then listen to what He says.
4. For Fulfillment
When you are filled to the brim, it overflows into the lives of those around you. When you’re not, you seek fulfillment from those around you. So many times we wait for a relationship to fill us up- not realizing that it actually can’t. Rather than living in the preoccupation of the holes in our lives -we need to ask God for fulfillment and joy during those difficult seasons.
We should pray for God Himself to fill us up rather than ask Him to give us things to fill us with.
True fulfillment comes from God and God alone.
5. For Love
Ask God for more of His love in your life. We all want so much to experience the love between a man and a woman but we can't love right if we don't love God. When you get a glimpse of God’s love in your life- you begin to recognize it in the people around you. I would have been saved from so much heartache and pain if I could have understood what real love actually looked like and learned to give and receive that kind of love- the sacrificial, servant-hearted, selfless love of Jesus Christ.
When it comes to pouring your heart out to the Father in prayer- there is nothing too small for His reach. We’re invited to talk to Him about every little detail of our lives and of our love lives. He wants to hear, to listen, and to give us the desires of our heart.
But more so, prayer is for us. As much as God longs to give us the desires of our hearts–more so, He longs to change our hearts. To make our hearts bigger, wiser, stronger. To make them more trusting, more peaceful, and most of all–more like His.
I hope you find this helpful..please share with a friend.
Love..
Oye(DivineDiva)
Excerpts from truelovedates.com
