The fact that many did not pray to get married does not mean you as a believer in Jesus don't need God in making your choice in marriage. Of course Ahab chose Jezebel for wife, was it God that chose for him? Anybody can choose a wife of his own. But God preserves His best for his own. If you are a believer and you ask God he will bring His best for you though she may not look like it at the beginning. God's eyes are on the righteous. Job 36:7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted. Abraham's servant ask God to prosper his way and God did. The scripture says as he was praying she came out to him. "And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. Genesis 24:15. GOD gave Eve to be with Adam, not Adam brought her but God. Genesis 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, ......
..This new age doctrine that you don't need God in marriage is really false. It makes people not to look for God You need God. Even your thoughts and ideas are God's. Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. THE IDEAS AND THOUGHTS ARE DIVINELY GUIDED. Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: It is God that works all things. He preserves the best for you.
Oh, you will say Proverbs 18:22 ¶Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD" . The man that wrote that scripture King Solomon, HOW MANY WIVES DID HE MARRY? Proverbs 19:14 ¶House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD. IF YOU WANT A PRUDENT WIFE, YOU GO TO GOD, HE WILL GIVE YOU THE BEST. James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
