Getting the One
There
are several things that I have learnt over time that I wish someone
had told me about this receiving a mate business. No one told me, so I
am going to tell you,
1) Trust God more than you trust yourself - There are so many singles who feel that if they let God in on mate selection he will make a wrong choice. Seek God's wisdom, his guidance, his will on a mate. Choose with God and not independently. In future you will have an assurance that this is the mate God had for you when troubled times come.
1) Trust God more than you trust yourself - There are so many singles who feel that if they let God in on mate selection he will make a wrong choice. Seek God's wisdom, his guidance, his will on a mate. Choose with God and not independently. In future you will have an assurance that this is the mate God had for you when troubled times come.
2) Get
rid of pride and selfishness - The truth is that marriage is for both
you and the person you marry, to make you both better. So if you come
in with your selfish list of demands and he comes with the same, what
will the outcome be? Get rid of pride. Some of the things you say you
can't abide in a person are based on pride - I can't be seen with a man
who does not drive, I can't be seen with a woman who does not have a
perfect figure 8...huh?
3) Look beyond the superficial - It takes maturity to do this, but then again marriage is for the mature. Superficial things - those that are on the surface and easily seen, do not give the whole picture of the person. Here is a hard working, kind, loving, brother or sister who loves God and is perfect mate material but they shrub (in whatever accent) and suddenly you are like, "I can't take that one!" It's time to look at the things that really matter.
4) Be open to receive - When I got ready to receive a mate I had a policy that any guy who had the guts to approach me would get a hearing. I would be kind and gracious and listen to him, pray about it with an open mind before saying yes or no. I got a few strange ones, but that openness allowed me to meet my honey. I was open to receive.
5) Be sensitive to the Spirit - The Holy Spirit is a partner in all things, even mate selection. One time when a guy was hitting on me, before my honey came, I was so agitated in my spirit. The Holy Spirit was saying, "not that one!" He was a Pastor and he talked the talk but my spirit was not at rest with him and I could not figure out why. Later, when my honey showed up, there was peace. Just a stillness on the inside that said, "You are home!"
6) Trigger the system - They call it cybernetics. This is where one change in a system brings change to the entire system. I think that there is something in the man and woman that makes them know that this is the right person for them. They can't tell you how they know, they just know. Set off the homing beacon in you that sends out a signal to your spouse-to-be that says, "come and get it!" You do this in prayer. You make decrees and call him / her into your life. Release the person wherever they may be in the four corners of the earth to come and locate you.
7) Nest! - When I got ready to receive my honey I started nesting. I started preparing for him. I cleaned up my internal environment. I got rid of attitudes about men that needed to go. I looked in God's word for the truth and replaced any incorrect information with the right info. Selfishness had to go. Negative ideas about marriage had to go. Accumulated spiritual and soulical junk had to go. I availed myself to God to be washed and made clean with the washing of water by the Word! I readied myself to host a new arrival into my life. Both men and women need to get the environment ready for another person to come and share their life.
3) Look beyond the superficial - It takes maturity to do this, but then again marriage is for the mature. Superficial things - those that are on the surface and easily seen, do not give the whole picture of the person. Here is a hard working, kind, loving, brother or sister who loves God and is perfect mate material but they shrub (in whatever accent) and suddenly you are like, "I can't take that one!" It's time to look at the things that really matter.
4) Be open to receive - When I got ready to receive a mate I had a policy that any guy who had the guts to approach me would get a hearing. I would be kind and gracious and listen to him, pray about it with an open mind before saying yes or no. I got a few strange ones, but that openness allowed me to meet my honey. I was open to receive.
5) Be sensitive to the Spirit - The Holy Spirit is a partner in all things, even mate selection. One time when a guy was hitting on me, before my honey came, I was so agitated in my spirit. The Holy Spirit was saying, "not that one!" He was a Pastor and he talked the talk but my spirit was not at rest with him and I could not figure out why. Later, when my honey showed up, there was peace. Just a stillness on the inside that said, "You are home!"
6) Trigger the system - They call it cybernetics. This is where one change in a system brings change to the entire system. I think that there is something in the man and woman that makes them know that this is the right person for them. They can't tell you how they know, they just know. Set off the homing beacon in you that sends out a signal to your spouse-to-be that says, "come and get it!" You do this in prayer. You make decrees and call him / her into your life. Release the person wherever they may be in the four corners of the earth to come and locate you.
7) Nest! - When I got ready to receive my honey I started nesting. I started preparing for him. I cleaned up my internal environment. I got rid of attitudes about men that needed to go. I looked in God's word for the truth and replaced any incorrect information with the right info. Selfishness had to go. Negative ideas about marriage had to go. Accumulated spiritual and soulical junk had to go. I availed myself to God to be washed and made clean with the washing of water by the Word! I readied myself to host a new arrival into my life. Both men and women need to get the environment ready for another person to come and share their life.
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