How do you know it's God's will?

[HannahClareRawlings]

I'm not talking about whether to believe there's just 'one person' or whether the choice is up to you, but it is really important to me to know that marrying a particular person is in God's plan for my life. I want to know His blessing is upon it
My courting partner and I are praying, our situation isn't all easy (we are long distance and I currently have health issues) but many things are really great and he, and I both seem to gel really well together, I see many positives. I know probably a little more time is needed, but I wondered what do people on here think is a way to know you are safe to 'go ahead'? How do you think you hear God's 'yes' on this?

Any advice appreciated!

 

[pressingon17]

I'm not talking about whether to believe there's just 'one person' or whether the choice is up to you, but it is really important to me to know that marrying a particular person is in God's plan for my life. I want to know His blessing is upon it
My courting partner and I are praying, our situation isn't all easy (we are long distance and I currently have health issues) but many things are really great and he, and I both seem to gel really well together, I see many positives. I know probably a little more time is needed, but I wondered what do people on here think is a way to know you are safe to 'go ahead'? How do you think you hear God's 'yes' on this?

Any advice appreciated!

If you too get along really well and can work through anything,and both want to marry each other,and put God first,then he's most likely the one,I've known my fiancee for 2 months and know she's the one.God has blessed our relationship.
Praying that everything works out for you.

 

[gzt]

At a certain point, you just have to trust your reason, your intuition, your feelings, and all that jazz. God gave you reason and you just have to live your life. You have to live your life, you don't have things spelled out, nor are there ever any "right" answers. If you decide to marry this guy, then he's "the one" and your marriage will be what the both of you make of it. By the grace of God, of course. What's more important than "making the right choice" is taking the right actions after you make the choice. A lot of people get divorced, and sometimes it's because they made a huge mistake in getting married in the first place, but usually it's silly to say they "married the wrong person". They failed to do the things they needed to do to make it work.

 

[The Nihilist]

I'm not talking about whether to believe there's just 'one person' or whether the choice is up to you, but it is really important to me to know that marrying a particular person is in God's plan for my life. I want to know His blessing is upon it
My courting partner and I are praying, our situation isn't all easy (we are long distance and I currently have health issues) but many things are really great and he, and I both seem to gel really well together, I see many positives. I know probably a little more time is needed, but I wondered what do people on here think is a way to know you are safe to 'go ahead'? How do you think you hear God's 'yes' on this?

Any advice appreciated!

The same way that anyone knows anything happening is God's will: they simply decide that it is.
(To the exclusion, of course, of scipture, and, depending on the denomination, maybe some councils)

 

[HannahClareRawlings]

If you too get along really well and can work through anything,and both want to marry each other,and put God first,then he's most likely the one,I've known my fiancee for 2 months and know she's the one.God has blessed our relationship.
Praying that everything works out for you.

Thank you pressingon! This was encouraging advice.

And gzt -thanks, there's a whole lot of wisdom in what you're saying there.

Thanks guys!

 

[moreruthlessjezebel]

If you would be able to willingly give him up for Him, you might be okay. When you realize your relationship with God is more important than whatever man might be in your life at the time that you're thinking of marriage, you may be on the right track. When a relationship with someone on this earth is not as important as the one on earth as it is and will forever be in heaven, you're half way there.

God hates divorce. God mourns for a life wasted in devotion to someone other than Him. God wants to see us flourish, grow, mature, bear fruit, live, breathe and die for Him.

But sometimes the worst thing that can happen to a God-loving Christian is that moment when they meet another God-loving Christian. We are supposed to sharpen one another as iron sharpens iron, but a relationship can be a huge distraction from your real purpose in this shell's life. If you are called to the ministry (which, we all are) you better hope you've picked the man or woman that will let you do God's will and not attempt to ever talk you out of it.

If you keep God at the center of your relationship and are both ready and prepared for the marriage roles (husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church, to lay their lives down for them and make them holy, wives to submit to their husbands as the Church submits Christ and obtain the quiet and gentle spirit), keep the marriage bed pure, leave your mothers and fathers to cleave to one another and do not sin or cut against your own flesh (I mean that metaphorically, as husband and wife you would be one flesh, so divorce, abuse, neglect and sexual immorality, so on) you would be in God's will.

Pray on it, talk to Him about it and talk to him about it too.

 

[Johnnz]

Good trusts us enough to come to sensible decisions on many matters, marriage included. How you both feel about being married to each other, what people who know you well have to say, plus your families - all can have some part in helping you arrive at a sensible decision.

John
NZ

 

[ANM29]

Prayer, Prayer, Prayer and trusting the sense of 'peace' you have about each other and situation.