11 1/2 Questions To Help You Date Without RegretsSample
In dating, desperation always leads to destruction. And destruction is the introduction to everything that is the opposite of awesome. Always!
If you want to destroy your life, ruin your happiness, screw up really good friendships, and possibly shatter the lives of your future children, allow desperation to dictate every decision you make when it comes to dating.
If you are desperate for a relationship with someone of the opposite sex, then all reason and rational thought will disappear from your life as you seek to justify to everyone why you are making the decisions that are being made.
However, if you will put Jesus first in your life and allow everything to fall under His lordship, I can’t promise you that you will always feel great and never battle with loneliness. But I can tell you that in doing so you will live a life of no regrets, which is way better than dealing with being lonely for a season.
God’s vision for your future is better than your version of a fairytale.
God wants to give you hope and a future — especially when it comes to your future marriage.
Even though at times it may not seem that way.
I can remember being in seven or eight weddings before I actually got engaged. The manager in the local tuxedo shop knew me by name, and I remember thinking, “God, if you have a plan, it would be great to know it. My friends are getting married. My friends are having sex. I am doing neither!!! Can you make something happen?”
I spent years going through these feelings of frustration.
However, I can honestly tell you there was no greater plan for my life than God’s plan. There was no better person for me than Lucretia.
I haven’t always done everything right in my life. However, waiting on what God wanted and understanding that His plans for me were greater than my plans for me paid off, and it will for you as well.
If you want to destroy your life, ruin your happiness, screw up really good friendships, and possibly shatter the lives of your future children, allow desperation to dictate every decision you make when it comes to dating.
If you are desperate for a relationship with someone of the opposite sex, then all reason and rational thought will disappear from your life as you seek to justify to everyone why you are making the decisions that are being made.
However, if you will put Jesus first in your life and allow everything to fall under His lordship, I can’t promise you that you will always feel great and never battle with loneliness. But I can tell you that in doing so you will live a life of no regrets, which is way better than dealing with being lonely for a season.
God’s vision for your future is better than your version of a fairytale.
God wants to give you hope and a future — especially when it comes to your future marriage.
Even though at times it may not seem that way.
I can remember being in seven or eight weddings before I actually got engaged. The manager in the local tuxedo shop knew me by name, and I remember thinking, “God, if you have a plan, it would be great to know it. My friends are getting married. My friends are having sex. I am doing neither!!! Can you make something happen?”
I spent years going through these feelings of frustration.
However, I can honestly tell you there was no greater plan for my life than God’s plan. There was no better person for me than Lucretia.
I haven’t always done everything right in my life. However, waiting on what God wanted and understanding that His plans for me were greater than my plans for me paid off, and it will for you as well.
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About this Plan
We live in a culture that doesn't see dating as a big deal, but the reality is how you date and who you date can change the course of your life. Not only does God care about your dating life, He wants to guide you as you date. Based on the book by pastor and author Perry Noble, this reading plan will help you discover why dating matters to God.
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We would like to thank Perry Noble, senior pastor of NewSpring Church, for providing this plan. For more information, please visit http://www.newspring.cc