Don't Abort the Promise

Today is Valentine’s day, a day of celebrating love. Today there are many people out there that are single, waiting on a husband or wife, and sometimes today can be a hard day for people. I remember before I met Daryle I would be so torn on Valentine’s Day. I’m a person that love’s love. I love to see couples together; celebrating each other and it brings me joy. I believe love between people is one of the greatest gifts God ever gave us. He intended for one man and one woman to be together and be as One sharing in each other, in fact when God created man and the man was alone He said it wasn’t good (Genesis 2:18), so He created woman.

On the other hand I didn’t have a husband, I didn’t have another person I could celebrate the day with, and I would watch all the other couples and be a little sad. Sometimes I would say to God (as some of you might have), when is it going to be my turn? Out of my own impatience I allowed myself to get into 2 relationships before I met Daryle. Needless to say neither man was “the one” and today I still thank God for His grace because I could have aborted the promise of my husband, but God kept me.

I’m saying all of this to the single people out there to show you that we all have a choice, we can choose to do it ourselves, or we can choose to wait on God and His direction. It is really strong on me today to encourage those of you out there that have been waiting on your spouse’s to continue to be patient; he/she might be closer than you actually think. You have no idea what God is doing behind the scenes to set everything up for your marriage.

When I look back at our lives before we met and compare our timelines and our walk I see that we couldn’t have gotten together before we did. For one, Daryle is 5 years younger than me. He lived in Chicago, Detroit, and New York; I lived in Seattle, Atlanta, and Minneapolis. I got saved in 2005; Daryle rededicated his life to Christ in 2006. I moved to Chicago in Aug 2007, he didn’t move to Chicago until March 2008. I started going to Living Word Christian Center (where we met) September 2007, He started going December 2008; God pointed me out to Daryle beginning of January 2009. Daryle approached me Jan 28, 2009. We married March 17, 2009.

As you can see from the timeline there were things that had to be put into place before we could meet, our age difference, where we lived, our salvation, and our mental mindsets. God was really doing it for us, but we couldn’t see it at that time. I want you to know out there God is doing the same for you. He is working it out. I don’t care if you’ve been praying for your spouse for 1 month or 20 years, IT IS coming together. I encourage you to keep your eyes focused on God and nothing else. Allow Him to do what He does and just continue to thank Him as you continue to walk with Him. DO NOT I repeat DO NOT abort the promise of that spouse. DO NOT I repeat DO NOT give in to your own desires. Sometimes you “think” you hear God about a person, but you are really hearing yourself. I know I “thought” I heard twice, but in my heart I knew different and God had given me clear signs along the way in these relationships before Daryle that I didn’t want to look at because I really wanted to be married.

Remember just because you meet a nice man or woman that goes to church, has a relationship with God and seems to have it together, that does not mean that they are your future spouse. Men you will know your wives, wives you will know your husbands. Wait on the Lord, and again I say wait.

God bless and much love!

Tracy Houston
Kingdom Vizion Ministries
www.kingdomvizion.org