Where is my Ring??!

So, everybody around you is getting engaged! Every day you log onto Facebook,Instagram  you find that YET another person is engaged! Although you're happy for them, deep down-- you're thinking umm. ANOTHER PERSON?! UGH! WHEN IS MY TIME?!??! 

You go to church, pray, spend time with God, you're living right but HOW is it that all of your unsaved co-workers are now engaged........... Or all your friends are engaged, married, having kids but you find yourself,still single with no Man/Boo/Bae (lmao) coming forth arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. 

First and foremost, you have got to stop comparing your life to another person. You've heard this before but I'm going to remind you that you're a Christian. You have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of you. Do you know what that means to all of heaven??! You've been ADOPTED, SET APART, PULLED ASIDE, HIDDEN and PROTECTED under the care of CHRIST. Do you think He's going to just let you run off any marry just anybody??! 

Anybody can get a ring young lady. Proverbs 24:1 says: Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them. So that should clear up being jealous of a bunch of random unsaved people that are getting engaged and getting dis-engaged in a few months. They don't belong to Christ which means that CHRIST has no say in their relationships! The WORST feeling in the world is for you to walk down the aisle to a man that you KNOW God didn't tell you to marry! Yes, God is always speaking, yet we don’t  listen most times. And this isn't the time to run and preach to them that they shouldn't be getting married if they aren't saved,bashing them over the head with the bible once they are engaged won't make them run to Christ.

 Just smile, hug them and say congratulations while you pray for their salvation. (I know that’s a pretty hard one…..but you can still pray for them. ‘’winks’’

Each season in your life will develop to the next one,If you're worrying non-stop about getting married, you'll finally get married and then you'll worry about kids. "Everybody is having kids and you don't have any kids, then, you'll finally get pregnant and then you'll compare yourself to all of the other pregnant women and worry about your entire pregnancy,then, kids will finally come and then you will compare your kids to everybody else's child. Do you see how destructive this cycle is??! 

Philippians 4:6-7
6 don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

So are you allowing His peace to guard your mind during this season of your life? Or are you on a mad search. So of late I have really been discussing with my many single friends and guess what we all complain and nag about  the same thing and at the end encourage each other, my Faith looks up to God who is the author and finisher, I try as much as possible to encourage myself and ‘’seek’’ the face of God. I don't let being single make me bitter.  A Single life is NOT a waiting room for MARRIAGE. Marriage is a ministry and if you were lazy with your walk with God while single when you get married, you'll get smacked in the face by the EFFORT that it takes to make a marriage GOOD & last. 

We wait for cars, we wait at the doctors, we wait for the train, we wait for appointments, and even the mechanic, our ride, the doctor or the train is LATE, oops we get frustrated!

 Some of us have been on the wrong train for a while and we need to get off of it because it's PUSHING us further and further away from our destination. Some of us have been "dating" men that we WISH would marry us but we know deep down that that fool has zero standards and no relationship with God, Just like my Ex He won't spend time with God, he won't pray, he would rather play with your body than study the bible, he is CLEARLY not a husband material but you would rather in that moment forgo being SINGLE than to have to deal with being lonely again.


Sis, I want to encourage you to get back to the place of worship and begin to trust God wholeheartedly. You're going to want your one-day marriage to glorify God and then when you DO have kids. You’re going to want your HUSBAND to lead your household as a Christian leader. You may not see how important it is because your clock is "ticking" but I want to remind you that Sarah got pregnant at 99. If you don't know who Sarah is-- read Genesis.

 So remove the words "I'm waiting for my man" from your vocabulary and replace them with "I TRUST GOD'S TIMING concerning EVERY AREA." We must become desperate for Christ and stop being desperate for a relationship.

You didn't get a ring this 2015 season because it's not your TIME.2016 is only a few days from now, am not saying you will get the ring, just TRUST GOD. You never know how God can turn things around! 

First step: Be content wherever He has you right now! Trust that if that DOOR was supposed to be opened, HE would have opened it.

So what do you do in the interim?

1. Guard your heart: If Facebook,Instagram is ruffling your feathers, maybe you need to pull away from it for a little while so you can focus. Stop watching stupid shows on TV that include sex, adultery, fantasies, or whatever else. Don't you realize those things can OPEN a door into your heart?

2. Be happy for others: If you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be able to be happy with others. So sit before God & be honest. You can tell Him that you're jealous & bitter and TIRED of being single. Ask Him to HELP you to want to be ok with being single.

3. Ask Him to show you the joys of being single. Get prepared to get tested, but don't worry, the tests will make you stronger & mature you. Remember that you're SUPPOSED to be doing something during this season. What is God trying to accomplish & get you to DEVELOP in? Is He having a hard time because you're ignoring Him & focused on this world?

4. Find a local church & get involved! Surround yourself with like-minded Christian women! 

5. SPEND TIME WITH GOD! Honey, when you're on your face before God-- you don't have time to be worry about what is on sister Unoma’s ring hand finger! You're BUSY about PURSING God and you're TIRED at the end of the day. You won't have time to be jealous of anybody.

Stay focused & encouraged apieceof1stlady.blogspot.com!

XOXO……………………………