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Prayers to Find a Godly Spouse

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Summary

  • In Genesis 24, Abraham’s servant prayed at a well for a wife for Isaac, and Rebekah answered his sign, yet her family still asked for her own consent: “Wilt thou go with this man?”
  • Tobias and Sarah prayed together on their wedding night (Tobias 8:7–10), in the Book of Tobit, which Catholic and Orthodox Bibles include and Protestants place among the Apocrypha.
  • Lasance’s Catholic Girl’s Guide (1906) gives a prayer to Saint Raphael and a prayer for guidance in choosing a state of life, married or unmarried.
  • Twelve short prayers ask for a husband or wife who loves God and shares our faith, and pray about a particular person, the waiting, loneliness, purity, a breakup and staying single.
  • Catholic canon law requires a dispensation or permission to marry outside the Church, the Orthodox Church in America blesses marriages only to baptized Christians, and the Westminster Confession says Christians should “marry only in the Lord.”
  • Russian Orthodox Christians honor Saints Peter and Fevronia of Murom, canonized in 1547, and since 2008 their feast on 8 July has been Russia’s Day of Family, Love and Fidelity.

Here is a short prayer to pray today for a godly husband or wife: “Lord, you know I want to marry. If it is your will, bring me someone who loves you, help me to know that person when we meet, and make me ready to love well. Until then, keep me faithful and content in you. Amen.” The prayer at the well in Genesis 24 The fullest story in the Bible of someone asking God for a spouse is…

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Bibliography (Click to show)
  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Genesis 2:18; 24:3, 10, 12–15, 19, 26, 58, 67; Psalm 27:14; 37:4–5; 68:6; 147:3; Proverbs 15:22; 18:22; 19:14; 31:30; 1 Corinthians 7:7, 34, 39; 13:4–5; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Galatians 5:22–23; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Hebrews 13:4; James 1:5). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims version, Tobias 3:8; 6:11–14; 8:7–10; 12:15. Project Gutenberg eBook no. 1581. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1581
  • Lasance, Francis Xavier. The Catholic Girl’s Guide: Counsels and Devotions for Girls in the Ordinary Walks of Life and in Particular for the Children of Mary. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1906. Preface, p. 11; “The Married State,” pp. 320–321; “Prayer to St. Raphael, Archangel,” p. 601; “Prayer for Youth to Beg the Divine Direction in the Choice of a State of Life,” pp. 611–612. https://archive.org/details/catholicgirlsgui00lasa
  • Driscoll, James F. “St. Raphael.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12640b.htm
  • Code of Canon Law, canons 1086, 1124 and 1125. Libreria Editrice Vaticana. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann998-1165_en.html
  • Orthodox Church in America. Guidelines for Clergy (2023), “Inter-Christian Marriages” and “Marriage outside the Orthodox Church and Inter-Religious Marriages.” https://www.oca.org/files/PDF/official/2023-OCA-Guidelines-for-Clergy.pdf
  • Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), chapter 24, section 3. https://thewestminsterstandard.org/the-westminster-confession/
  • “The Tale of Peter and Fevronia.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Peter_and_Fevronia
  • “Пётр и Феврония.” Wikipedia (Russian). https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Пётр_и_Феврония_Муромские

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