I find that sometimes faith makes it harder to date. Even if I find someone with faith in Christ, they may not be on the same level as me, for example, if they're a new Christian. I don't want to say I'm overly picky, but in a way I am. I want someone who's in the same place with their faith that I'm at in mine, and that's something I've yet to find.
Faith is belief in God not just salvation. Not being unequally yoked with a unbeliever is according to your faith of belief in God not just salvation. Your are right to wait for a man that you can walk together with according to your faith and trust in God.
I think this is a really difficult question to answer, especially on an online dating site with limited chat feature unless people exchange emails etc
faith is the experience of living in a dynamic and new personal relationship with God through the transforming and indwelling power of Jesus in your body and life. The key to this new experience of living, and its essential factor, is trusting God to make you into a new person by allowing him to place the Spirit on behalf of Jesus, his Son, into your mind and body where Jesus can do their work to give you a new life.
Mark 11:22-24
And Jesus answered them, �Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, �Be taken up and thrown into the sea,� and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
When the rent or mortgage is due. Do you trust God? When a child is sick. Do you trust God? When you need a job. Do you trust God? Etc........
These are real life situations that either fear will lead or trust in God will lead.
Individuals who unite in marriage being believers in faith can either have or lack faith in these difficult situations.
These situations are the testing ground of faith and when two are united as one the only way friction of life will not divide them is walking by faith together........
If a individual lacks maturity to walk by faith alone they have no business seeking to walk with another because their fear will destroy the relationship.
Fear breeds the need for controll. Controll destroys.........
The best story in the Bible describing Faith is the story of Job its a wonderful story. This is brief summary.
The beginning of the book describes Job as blameless and upstanding, a man who feared God and avoided evil. Job was a man of moral integrity. He kept his life clean and even the appearance of evil was unpleasant to him. Because of this, God prospered him abundantly. �His possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.� (Job 1:3)
In the exchange between God and Satan, Satan says, �Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.� (1:10) God not only wants prosperity but protection for His people, their families and all they own. God blesses the work of His people' hands and causes increase, not decrease. The devil's purpose is just the opposite of God's, so it is important to remember that the security and impenetrability of the hedge is dependent on believing and living for God.
In Job 1:5, the hole in the hedge is revealed as Job's fear. Day after day Job got up early and offered sacrifices because he was afraid for his children. �It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.� Job admits this fear later in 3:25, and it stands out as a treasure of truth that believers need to recognize. A heart full of fear will ultimately bring disastrous results. �For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me.� Fear is a magnet for trouble. All through the Bible, God exhorts His people to �fear not.�
With all of Job's success and exceptional qualities, he allowed an unfounded fear to fester. Satan had access and took full advantage. Job's livestock was stolen or destroyed, and his servants and his children were tragically killed. Job's reaction was to fall to his knees and worship God. Satan afflicted him with boils all over his face and body. Even his wife told him to �Curse God and die.� But Job did not charge God with wrongdoing and �Job did not sin with his lips.� (1:22; 2:9, 10)
To add insult to injury, Job's friends came and tried to analyze why all of this happened. Eliphaz asked, �Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off?� (4:7) In other words, Job must be guilty of something. Bildad also suggested secret sins. �If you were pure and upright...� (8:6) Zophar implied that maybe Job hadn't suffered enough for his sins. �Know therefore that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.� (11:6)
Job had already confessed his error, the fear. But the accuser is ruthless, and through Job's friends he kept aggravating Job and pouring salt in the wounds. They meant well, but they were all wrong. Job finally defended himself. �What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. But you forgers of lies, you are all worthless physicians.� (13:2, 4) �Miserable comforters are you all!� (16:2) �How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words? These ten times you have reproached me; You are not ashamed that you have wronged me.� (19:2, 3) Job stood his ground, speaking words still powerful and valuable for Christians today. �Far be it from me that I should say you are right; Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.� (27:5, 6)
Finally these three men got the message and stopped talking. In the end, God required Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar to offer sacrifices because they �Have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.� (42:8) Even though they had come to help Job, God had Job pray for them.
�And the Lord restored Job's losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.� (42:10) God literally doubled all that Job had in the beginning. God even gave him seven more sons and three more daughters, so that Job will have twice as many children in the resurrection. One of the most important lessons to learn from the book of Job is that God is always good, and the devil is always bad. Satan always intends to destroy the lives of God's people, but God's desire is to bless and prosper His people, even to the end of restoring back to them what the enemy has stolen. �The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.� (John 10:10)
Hi, I really love this question. I think it is very important to me, especially in terms of choosing a future husband. For me, faith really is about trust. Trusting God to provide whatever it is that we are needing. Everything, from air, to love, shelter to education, fellowship to food. Everything. He is our Provider, our Lover, our Father, our Friend, our King, our Leader... He is our everything.
In my own life, going through the separation and ending of a marriage with many ugly realities, I have had to rely on God for literally everything. Our very lives have been in danger, we didn't have anywhere we could stay that was safe, didn't have enough money for food, etc. My child got sick and was on life support at one point, I needed a full time job, I had little choice but to get a restraining order against my husband, I had no spiritual covering from him. One day, we were in the mini van and had been staying with friends, but needed to find a new place. My three year old daughter said to me from the back seat, "Mommy, where are we going to stay tonight?" That just broke my heart.
God met every last need. Every single one. He grew me. Taught me. Loved me. He has given my little family our very lives... and all we need to sustain life. Now, He is teaching me to want. To want more. To dream again. To boldly go beyond survival into the world of living. To move to what He has for me, for my children. To trust Him more. I really can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me. So for me, looking for a man who appreciates this concept is huge. I trust God to provide such a man at some point in our future.
