This weekend marks our 12th year in marriage (April 21st, 2007). I thought it was fitting to write about this prayer I wrote before Tiwanda and I even started dating. This prayer was written on April 18, 2005. I was appealing earnestly to God to help me since I had no idea where to turn…
Translated below…pardon the “doctor’s” handwriting -:)
Lord I pray earnestly for a wife. A God fearing woman, a woman of purpose, conviction and grace. Yet I also pray that she’ll be one that I have no problem falling in love with. I pray for a woman after your own heart yet that she’ll be one whose heart I shall pursue as well. I pray for a woman out of your own hands, a woman made just for me. You have saved me from several encounters, several mistakes, prepared me for this day. Make it glorious, make it great, make me joyful.
I prepare myself as Christ for His bride. Find me with no spot or blemish. Find me worthy of the woman of God you’re about to send me. Find me holy and pleasing, not just to you but to her also. Let her be my queen and me her prince in shining armor. Find me worthy to sweep her off her feet and into our shared destiny. I pray for a glorious union inspired and choreographed by You alone.
Let me not over value myself. Let me not under value myself. Let me not walk in pride yet let me not suffer from low self esteem. Let me be just right. Let her find me just fitting, just right for I cannot make myself right. Make my attitude, demeanor and poise just right.
Less than a month after this, I was sitting across from her at Barnes and Noble explaining why I thought she was the one and asking her to walk with me on a journey of discovery. I was deep and intense back then and we laugh about it now but I knew what I needed and where God was taking me. I pray our union lasts as long as God has us on this earth!
Have you prayed for your spouse lately? The one you have or the one that you hope to have?
Nelson Masinde 
Love this!!
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