An Idea

  I was reading this article (http://blog.christianitytoday.com/women/2011/09/asking_god_for_a_husband.html) on the Christianity Today Her.Meneutics blog earlier today about a woman who joined a prayer and fasting group in order to pray with other women about marriage and singleness and it helped along an idea that I had been working on a couple of weeks ago. During a session with my counselor, we were lamenting over the fact that over the past 30 years, she has noticed more and more single women getting frustrated with the fact that there aren't that many men in the Church. I read another Christianity Today article (http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/august/16.22.html) awhile ago about the case for early marriage, which has a section about the uneven amount of men and women in the Church: "Among evangelical churchgoers, there are about three single women for every two single men." This is not a very encouraging number. I know that this seems to be true for all of my single Christian female friends in their various churches and is also true in the church that I attend.

  Well, after reading the Her.Meneutics blog I began to think about how many times I've complained about the fact that there aren't that many single Christian guys around and left it at that. A couple of friends and I even make a point to visit various churches and singles groups in order to widen the pool for ourselves. We pray and ask God for a guy, and we might even pray for his walk with Jesus, but I don't know that we actually take the time to regularly pray for the spiritual state of the opposite sex, single or married. Now I'm not saying that women don't need prayer too or that we are perfect Christians while men are all heathens. In "Why I No Longer Pray For A Husband," the author talks about how much God worked on her through the fasting and prayer. I feel like an important part of being single is to work on one's relationship with God and let Him fashion us into who He means for us to be. It is an extremely vital period in our lives. In fact, I read a Relevant article (http://www.relevantmagazine.com/life/relationship/blog/26851-making-the-most-of-being-single) the other day about making the most of the time we are given being single.

  Anyway, getting to my idea. I want to make a point to regularly pray for males in and outside of the Church, around the world, with other women single or married. We spend a lot of time complaining and questioning why men act so many ways when the best thing that we can do is to pray for them. God wants both men and women to be in relationship with Him and to be in mature relationships with each other, even more than we do. So, who wants to join me??