Listen to your inner voice - That is how God warns us

Submitted by Pika (United States), Apr 14, 2007 at 21:38

Hi Lou,

I've just broken things off with an Egyptian Muslim man. We are both living in USA, and have known each other 1 week! and he wants to marry me. It's so over the top i can't begin to tell you! Both of us are in our early 30's, educated, and VERY attracted to each other. But i am a very committed Christian, and like you I am happy in my faith, and want to raise my children knowing about Jesus. I also want my husband to enjoy and share in my church life.

I have really struggled with this, as i haven't met someone that i have had such an instantaneous and fast connection with - and i mean instantaneous!

However, I have a praying and caring Christian family who have been aware and seeking God's wisdom on it since I met him. None of them feel happy about it. Despite that, i make my own decisions, but i too have been very torn - feeling to run and feeling to stay.

In the end i woke up a few days ago and felt a voice in my heart say very clearly and strongly "I want you clear, this man is not for you, I have someone else for you, you have been kind to him, but now no more. Walk away."

Hard as it has been I have walked away....and it has taken 3 days and many phone calls and angsty messages from him that he will never love again...

The main point here is that God cares for our needs as single woman, and that he is very capable and able to provide us with a man that is just right for us, in EVERY way...not just every way but regarding religious needs.

Two more things that i want to say -

1.Faith is the evidence of things unseen, and

2."Those that wait on the Lord will renew their strength, they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not be weary, they will walk and not faint!" Isaiah 40

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