Finding the One: Prayer, Patience, and Red Flags

God, teach us today, Lord, what you want us to hear, Lord. May you sow the seed in our hearts, Lord. Thank you for everything you've done for us and for your Son who died on the cross for our sins, Lord. All praise and glory be to you, God. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. And for our first song, we'll be singing. Thank you, Lord. I come before you today, and there's. Just one thing that I want to say: Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, for all you've given to me. For all the blessings that I cannot see. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, with a grateful heart, with a song of praise. With an outstretched arm, I will bless Your name. Thank You, Lord. I just want to thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. I just want to thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. For all You've done in my life, You. You took my darkness and gave me your light. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. You took my sin and my shame. You took my sickness and healed all my pain. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. With a grateful heart. With a song of praise, with an outstretched arm, I will bless Your name. Thank You, Lord. I just want to thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. I just want to thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. And for our second song, we'll be singing, "Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus." Dear, so sweet to trust in Jesus and to take Him at His word, just to rest upon His promise and to know, thus saith the Lord, Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him. How I prove to more adore Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus, all for grace to trust Him more. Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus, just to trust His cleansing blood and in simple faith to plunge me neath the healing, cleansing flood, Jesus, Jesus. Just how I trusted, how I put Him more and more. Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus, all for grace to trust in Him. There's no need to trust in Jesus, just from sin itself to cease. Just from Jesus, I simply take life and rest, and joy and peace. Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him, how I grew to more adore. Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus, all for grace to trust Him more. I'm so glad I learned to trust the precious Jesus, Savior or friend, and to know that Thou art with me will be. With me to the end, Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him, how I trust Him more and more. Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus, all for grace to trust Him more. Praise God. Praise the Lord, my brothers and sisters, for this morning that we can all come here together today in the house of the Lord and praise His name and worship His name. And I'm going to be doing our Bible reading for this morning, and that's going to be in Psalms 46, page eight twelve. Psalms 46, and for the Bibles in the pews, it's going to be page eight twelve. Psalms 46. And it says here, God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, even though the earth be removed, and the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though its waters war and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling, there is a river whose stream shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the Most. Tabernacle of the Most High, God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved. God shall help her, just as the break of dawn. The nations raged; the kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice; the earth melted. The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Come, behold the works of the Lord, who has made desolations in the earth. He makes war cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two. He burns the chariot in fire. Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Praise God! And now we'll have Tim come up and make a couple announcements, and then right after that, he's going to lead a lecture with a couple of guests. God bless. Praise God, Church! It's a beautiful morning, and today we agreed. That we are going to be speaking on a topic of relationships and dating. I figure that if the church is not going to speak on that, then the world will teach our kids and our members about relationships and dating. So I'd rather have the church. Teach our people and everyone who comes how to properly seek for a godly relationship. We are going to take this few minutes, just a couple minutes. Let's meet and greet, and while we're doing that, I would need some help just to set up the stage, and then we will begin. There will like also a few will have questions. Just just raise your hand like as we go. If if you have a question to the the. Guest speakers on stage, just raise your hand and we will give you the mic. Okay, so let's take these few minutes and meet and greet. Amen. Oh, yes. Well, sorry. Be careful. So we. Is there, is there one more microphone? Okay, everybody. So these are our guests for this topic, and we'll be doing these topics once a month. The last week of every month, we're going to have a special topic for our church. Oh, thanks, Doug. Yeah, I know I have a lot of things going on, but. The reason why we decided to do this is because, like certain things, are better learned at church than in the world. Like I said, and like we don't want to come when it's already too late to to teach someone. Or to give somebody knowledge and understanding. So, this this month our topic is relationships and dating. This is a very important topic since a lot of our church is made up of single and ready to mingle people. People that are also still young, but good good lessons to learn. And also for those who are married, that you can pass on this knowledge. To, to your children, grandchildren, to make sure that they don't fall into sin or into a relationship that will bring them only tears down the future. So, my wife said, "It's not Valentine's Day." I'm like, you know, but that picture looks cool. So, I would like to to right now go couple by couple, and you just kind of introduce yourself, share with with the audience how long you've been married, and. You know, just like a little backstory and how you met. How did you meet? So we have an audience of just newlyweds to already seasoned families because I wanted like a scope of different times. Not those times that my kids say, "Dad, how big were the dinosaurs?" I'm like, I don't know. So, so not those times, but we will start from our newlyweds and kind of go down the down the road. Okay, so I think some of you guys know me. My name is Vlad. It's my wife Jessica, and we've been married since October 2025. So it's coming up on a year. But how how can I say we met? I was a best man at my best friend's wedding, and I saw her over there. And I noticed her, and I thought she was kind of cute. She had a nice smile, and and something kind of sparked in my mind. And then later on, towards the end of the wedding. When we're already leaving, and I was leaving with my, how you can say, group, then she kind of came up towards the end already, and we started talking, and I kind of saw her eyes light up a little bit too, and so that's kind of how we met, and kind of took it a little bit to the next step. After that, I already asked her out, I DM'd her, and asked her for her phone number, and then from there, I asked her for. So you okay? I was gonna say that's already what the wife does. You're already expecting that. Nah, just joking, Jessica. So when when you saw Vlad, the thing started. Like he asked you out. What was going through your mind? Well, I immediately wanted to tell somebody about it. So, my brother was also in town with me. So, I told them I was like, "Guess who asked me out?" He couldn't guess. And then I asked my mom for advice what to do, and she was like, "You can go on the coffee date. It doesn't mean you're getting married." But we did get married. That's great. Okay, Alex. So, so same question to you. Like, how'd you meet, and what what attracted you to to Yana? Well, my story is a little bit longer than that. Oh, and by the way, how long have you been married? Yes. So we got married with Yana on July twentieth of twenty thirteen. So it's coming up on thirteen years. Um, and how did I meet, or how did we meet? Is we went to a trip with my brother. And prior, my brother visited this church, and I actually visited a long time ago too. And so he was showing me the recent pictures of people, and I was completely in different state. I was not in this state. I was in state of Washington at that time, and we were in Vancouver, BC when I was looking through the pictures. And I saw her in one of the pictures. I wasn't even checking the pictures out. I just happened to glance. And when I glanced at that picture, she caught my eye right away on that picture from the Facebook. And so I went to sleep very upset that there's nothing gonna happen. I was 31 years old at that time. I'm in different state, and I saw a beautiful lady. But how do I meet? And so later on, my brother said that he's going for another work trip to Boise, and I said you have only one mission to get her name and her phone number. How you gonna get it? I don't know. It's just your one mission. I don't care about your work. You gotta do that. And so he says, "I will try." I go, "Well, I will support you with my prayer, and I'll call you. I'm gonna ask you, and you keep me an update." And so I called him every day. Believe me or not, the two weeks he was here, and he was only being able to talk to her and get her number at the very last day. He had to fly out on Saturday. He got the number on Friday. And so, for me, I didn't have to wait much on Monday morning. Or Monday, I took a fasting day. I prayed all day. And evening time, I texted her. I think I texted you Sunday, but that I will call her on Monday evening. We agreed on a time, and that's when I'll start it. I can be talking for more, but I'm not gonna take much time. Okay. And Yana, like when he texted you, what was going through your mind? Well, I mean, I already knew he was gonna be texting me because his the way his brother. He came up to me, and I. Didn't think that it was going to be this conversation. I thought his brother was wanting or interested in me, and I knew he was a lot younger, so I had a speech prepared to say how I'm not interested. But he started out with saying he figured out my schedule, and it was actually during orchestra. I was getting out, and then I saw his brother parked right by my car, and he's leaning on his car. And that's when I'm like, okay, I think this is my speech right now. And then he's like, Yana, can I talk to? And I said, Yeah, sure. And then he started out. I have an an older brother. He's a Christian guy. He's you know a leader. You seem like a really good girl. And I was not expecting that, but I was like. He asked me for the phone number, and I was like, "How can I give a phone number to someone I've never even seen?" But I had no reason to say no, and so I gave the number. But I was thinking, I don't know how I did this, but I'm giving it to God. And then he texted me the next day. He called me. We talked for an hour and a half. Four months later, we were married. Wow! Amen. Okay, Jean and Lana, Jean. So, so same question. I share with the audience: How long you've been married, and what, like, how did it happen? My name is Evgenia or Jean, team said. So, my our our story is gonna be probably shorter than Alex because. Like we live, we live like in same town, same church, so we met like in this church, and and even like I proposed here in parking lot over there, so it was like much much shorter and much easier than like like Alex situation, you know. So yeah, I live here in twenty for for twenty seven years and we married for twenty six, almost twenty six. Almost twenty six. Yeah. Eight. So here is our oldest son over there, so Vlad. So yeah, so it happened like kind of like really quick, you know. It's Like I just remember right now, was like much like much easier than there there I thought because I had like even like different plan for my wife for for my life and I was like planning go to California for dental school but I guess like God has like different plan for me so I didn't go anywhere because I met here okay yeah so stay stayed here and probably that's my destiny I guess okay and Lana when. Like when he started talking to you, what was going? What kind of emotions you felt? Well, the thing is, I used to be friends with his cousin Irina Ilushina, you know, and they came from Russia, and and she actually introduced. Him to us. So this is my cousin Yevgeny Lusha, and I saw from the first time I saw him, he was like looking at me. You know, I saw that he probably. I mean, it was not the love from the first sight. Probably it is for him. You know, when he saw me, I saw that he was like looking at me nonstop, and I'm like, okay, like that's interesting. You know, like we just met. You know, and I mean. The relationship didn't start right away because I got engaged to someone else in a few months, and that relationship did not work. Worked out, and and then later on, maybe when the my other relationship broke down, he's. Cousin again, Irina. You know, in one month after my breakdown, she came to me and she's like, "You know that somebody really, really loves you." You know, and I'm like, "Oh, please don't talk to me right now. I'm not ready yet. I just my my old relationship just broke down, and I'm not ready for like another relationship." You know, and and then. And then, like three months passed, and Jessica, mom, Jessica's mom, you know, she's like, Lanna, why don't you come and do my hair for the wedding? Because she's supposed to get married, you know. And I'm like, okay, you know, okay, okay, I will do your hair, you know, for the wedding. And when I was doing her hair, you know, like a tryout, you know, for the wedding, she's like, you know, that somebody really, really loves you, you know. And I'm like. And she's like, "Guess who?" And I'm like, "Yevgeny." I knew right away, you know, it was Yevgeny, you know. And she's like, "If he's gonna come and propose to you, are you gonna say yes or no?" And I'm like, and I just, I start thinking, you know, like maybe, you know, like I'm ready at this time, you know, for a new relationship. And and I've told her, yes, I will probably say yes to him, you know. And um and after, after like two weeks pass, yes and um. And I saw him. He's waiting for me outside the church, and I knew right away that he's gonna propose to me. And he was smiling and everything. And I'm like walking, like really shy. And this is when my nerves kicked in. I start smiling, you know, because I knew right away that he's gonna propose to me. So he did propose to me in the front of the church, on the parking lot. Yeah, it's okay because I proposed to my wife at a warehouse. So, so I think I think that's a lot, not as romantic as the church. Okay, well, like Lana kind of like answered this already in her, but Alex and and Yana, when did you know that you were ready to start dating or start pursuing this relationship? Well, we didn't really date. We just talked over the phone. I first saw Yana a month after my first phone call. Kind of like I don't know. We just the first conversation that we have over the phone. Yana says I did most of the talking. Well, I had to, right? So she didn't see me. She just hears me, right? And so I said everything about myself, who I am, and who who I was, and what I was doing in church, in life, and and then kind of like we agreed to call the next day, which actually we did call again, and and every day after that, and then. By just talking, we were able to. I wanted to come visit her in person, and I knew in my heart that I'm ready to propose to her. Was she ready or not? That she's going to tell that I don't know. But I came the month later and. Saw her the first time. We went that same night. We went to church. It was a youth service. I had to preach that church in that church. And and then we went out to a tea or coffee, just to the park. And after and I believe after the tea or coffee. Or before the tea or coffee doesn't matter. I proposed to her, and I told her, "Don't give me an answer just yet. Think about it." And that was Friday evening. Saturday, I went to her parents to meet her parents, and just to spend the time with them that day because I was out of town. I didn't know anybody that much at that time, so I spent the whole day with them fixing her car. So I fixed her car during that day, and I left on Saturday evening back home to Washington. And but you gave me the answer that Saturday evening, and so that was I already was coming back home on Sunday, so it was two days with the answer. Amen. And so, you you saw Yana. On a photo, but like, were you in that that time where you felt like you were ready to already pursue marriage, or was it just like just happened? I actually was ready to pursue marriage way before that. I was at 31 years old when when we got married. I had my house. I bought my house when I was 20 years old, and I was preparing for my future wife. And I. Prayed a lot about my future wife. When I was seventeen, I took a baptism, you know, in church. And one of the older pastor, who I really, he was not active pastor, but he was a pastor where I went to the prayers all the time. And he was the leader of that. He was eighty years old at that time. And his wish to me was, or the blessing that he gave when he was congratulate me on the baptism day, he came up to me and he says two things. He goes, I want to bless you with this. Start praying for your future wife. And what's that word again? Stay away from the sin and run from it as you're running from your death. That's the two advices he gave me, and I actually took it from him very literally and seriously, because he was a very high example in my eye, in my life, in my eyes. How he prayed, how he lived his life, how God blessed him, being eight years old, being so strong, being so he could see without glasses. He could. Walk without Walker. He could be so powerful in a prayer, and God spoke through him and all of that. And so I took his advice and I start praying for my wife. Back then, at seventeen years old, literally daily, and and I ask God to prepare my future wife. Well, there was some girls that I liked, but nothing worked out, and I always gave. I knew. Right one. I thought a lot about that picture. Like, why did it catch my eyes so much that it grabbed me? That I, I wanted to find her. I wanted to find her name. I wanted to find her number. And I knew that that God was doing. And for him, the distances, the, the time, it, it's nothing. And he can bless through all of that. Thank you. This is for Vlad and Jessica. How did you know that Jessica was the one? And same question for Jessica: How did you know that Vlad was the one? Yeah. So I was. So how can I start this off? I was talking to some girls throughout my life. And I always tried to kind of use my own efforts to make something happen, but nothing would ever happen. I'd always either be rejected or the girl didn't like me. And so I went through many years of that. But eventually, I decided, you know, I'm gonna fast and pray about it. And so I started maybe two or three years before I met Jessica. I started fasting almost every single week. And my main fast was about my future wife, and so my future can be blessed. And so that was one of the things I did. And and I kind of gave it to the Lord, and I was trying to do less of how I wanted to do it, but I just gave it to God. And eventually, I ran into Jessica, like I said at the wedding. And I asked her out for a date. And from there, we went on a date. And at first, I didn't think she liked me at all. Actually, she was very neutral, and I didn't even see a little bit that she kind of liked me. I was I I came back from the date and I told my mom, I'm like, I don't think she's the one for me. I don't think she likes me at all. You'd like another one? I'd be up for it. And so she replies to me. She also said like I really enjoyed the date, and I'd like to start off as friends. And so how I kind of got that message was okay, I got rejected. But she'll tell her side of the story. But I thought I was already rejected, and I'm like, oh man, again already. I'm like so tired of this. I'm so tired of dealing with girls already. And so. And so from there, I'm just like, you know, whatever. I'm giving it to God. And a few days later, I get another text, and I'm already a little bit depressed. You know, again, again, I got rejected, and I'm like trying to forget about her. And I get a picture of her in one of the spots of where I took her on a date, and it was a flower garden in Boise. And then she sent me a picture of herself with a few of her friends and cousins. And I'm like, man, that's the place that I took her on the date. Why is she showing all the people? You know, like she's trying to rub it in my face or something. But anyways, as soon as I got that picture, I'm like, okay, maybe she's still thinking about me, you know? And I'm like, maybe it's not over. And then my cousin tells me, hey, I think you got that text message. You received it incorrectly. Like you didn't, you didn't get the message of what she was actually trying to say. And so from there, I already kind of gave up on it. But I saw it came back, and so that's when I knew maybe this is actually from the Lord this time, because I didn't have to put in my own effort to try to get her back, you know? And that's kind of how I knew she was the one. Okay, so how I knew he was the one. Well, there's like a few things that I thought, you know, for my future husband should be checked off. And of course, he was a Christian, and we kind of knew each other our whole lives, but we never talked until the wedding. And so I kind of knew of him, but I we never really talked. So I kind of wanted to get to know him first, see what he was about. If he was like actually Christian, just because you go to church doesn't mean you're Christian. So I wanted to get to know him and make sure that first. And once I found out he was actually Christian, it kind of confirmed it for me. And I could tell he was very serious and also ready. Yeah. Awesome. Okay, and I guess that's the the next question that I do have for for Yana. What was something important you wanted to see in your future spouse before considering marriage? But hold on a second. Hey boys, H. I know you guys are excited, you know, but but let's give them to speak. So so that's a question to Yana. What was something important you wanted to see in your future spouse before considering marriage? Well, first of all, I was also 30 years old when Alex, you know, called me, and obviously I was not looking for just hey, how are ya? You know what I mean? Like you know, let's get to know each other. I was looking for a marriage as well. And the way that before he called me, he wrote me a text message. And that text message is what made me. He showed who he was. He introduced himself. He told me of his intentions, and he asked for my permission. And I'm like, that is very Christian, gentleman. Like, I have not seen that in other. You know. I've seen. I've had other guys text. You know, hey, what's up? No, don't WhatsApp me. You know, I don't. It's just. It's it's so important. Just even the way that first conversation, and it was that first text message, and he showed his Christian like. And then when he called me, it was the same thing. He. He asked about me. He told about himself and his values, his just who he is. And it's definitely that he loved the Lord, and that was the main thing. Amen. So I have this next slide. And I actually want to. We don't have much time, but I want to ask first the women, and then the men. But Lana, what are some red flags that a single woman should recognize as signs to step away from a relationship? What are red flags? Well, in my case, I mean, it's been the relationship that actually did not work out. The red flags are when he started lying to you. This is number one thing, and when after the engagement, when he started mistreating you, you know, like. He, he started acting different, you know, because I when I was praying and fasting, I was telling God that like I want my husband to be godly man, and demand that he will really love me and respect me and my family, you know, and the relationship that did not work out. At first, he would show that like he respect my family and he loves God, but when we got engaged. That person totally changed. So this is like red flags, and and so the true colors came out after the engagement. And sadly, to say that I was sad that I had to go all the way to engagement, and then he had to show his true colors. Colors, yeah. And but sometimes it just happens like this. I don't know. Praise God for everything. Yeah, yeah. You know, that's what I like when Lana said that she was praying and fasting for a godly man. God, God, by her prayers answered, and maybe she was being tested to see if she's going to listen to the Lord's voice or is she going to try to push it through? Kind of like Brother Vlad was saying. You know, I just gave it into God's hands. So. So that's yes, a good story, Yana. So, same question to you: What are some red flags that a single woman should recognize as signs to step away from a relationship? I think this is actually a very important one because a lot of women tend to think that oh, if Like if this guy doesn't like me, then nobody will. And then they try to push it through, and then they get married, and then they have tears all their lives. So, Jana. Okay. Well, I did write. That was one of the questions that actually wrote down for myself. I believe the major red flag is when you have to compromise your beliefs and values in the relationship. It's when you know he tells you, "Oh, it's okay." You know the Bible doesn't say you know like he manipulates or misinterprets Bibles verses. To so that's one of the red flags when he has uncontrollable anger. When you see how he acts towards others or towards you, that's a when he's controlling. When you see that he controls every move or you know tells you what to do when you're not even his wife yet. Or, also when he cannot resolve conflict in a healthy Christ-like manner, and the and when he tries to cut you away from family and your trusted friends, and the main thing that I can tell you is listen to your trusted friends and your family. When they see something is not right, listen because they care for you. Amen. Jessica. So, same question. What are some red flags that a single woman should recognize as signs to step away from a relationship rather than keep on pushing it through? I mean, Yanda got you know so many good points. Also, I think. Yeah, kind of with the family. If your parents or his parents aren't blessing it, that's gonna be like a stumbling stumbling block your entire life. If it's like an issue you can't resolve in a short amount of time, it's gonna be kind of a lifelong issue. I feel like that's a huge red flag. Okay. Okay, and same question to the gentleman. I think this will be our last slide, but but maybe we can continue this next week because I think just one Sunday is not enough. So so we'll continue this next week as well because there's some really important questions that we didn't get into. But we'll start the same question with the men, Brother Vlad. What are some red flags that a single man should recognize as signs to step away from a relationship? Well, there's a few that I can think of right off the top of my head, but one of them is if you're already kind of seriously talking to her, and she's talking to multiple guys to try to see, you know, who is the best one. Try to test out the waters. I think that's kind of a red flag because if if you're already kind of getting serious and you see that, that's not a good sign. I think that's a red flag. And then also, I would say if if the girl is kind of drawing you away from God. If you see that you're compromising as well, then she's not for you. Probably, in some cases it might be different, but you probably don't want a future wife like that that always takes you away from the Lord. Amen, brother Alex. It's kind of hard for me to summarize it like that, but for me, it always was a internal voice that I listened to when I spoke with some girls. I saw that she's not there for me or with me, even in this conversation. Ended up pushed me away right away because I I knew that she's she's not up to me. She's thinking about somebody else, or or I'm just not that. So that's one thing. Second thing, and that was the most and biggest for me because I kind of got married later, and I was publicly. Involved and with a lot of people around me, and the girls that don't value themselves and being easy to get, those girls are were red flag for me like right away. And so, if they are doing the initiative and if there's offering themselves, if they are going in that direction, trying to kind of make make you to end up being with them. Those were the biggest red flags for me, and I took and I took that, upon that advice from that older man that ran for life from that, and I really, and that's what saved me a lot. I have had so many framed situations, at my job. Previous job, I used to be a store manager, assistant store manager for, for a big big store, grocery store, and there was a lot of women in there, that tried to get me to be with them and. God protected me because those red flags were so obvious to me, and they were my red flags that I'm. I helped, help me stay away from those kind of relationship. Even though sometimes they're so creative, and I'm not trying to deceive anybody or put down anybody, but it's just you really see that. And if you have value for yourself as a man, and you admire the value that the lady, the girl should have, and if you don't see that, that's a red flag. Jean, same question has been already said. Everybody like said almost like everything, I guess. But for I would say probably some red flags. It's like if person like my my wife says if she's like not saying the truth, if like she's lying, she's lying to you. You can see it's like red. Flag number one, and if she's like disrespectful, not willing grow to to in God, you know, and maybe like manip manip manip manipulative, you know, this this kind of this kind of like you know person, I would say probably would stay from this kind of person, yeah. So and has been mentioned like it's very important to fast and and pray for that because if you're gonna do that like we've been like learning from our parents and like grandparents. They like tatus because yeah, of this like values. If you're gonna pray and you're gonna fast, you're gonna be like you're gonna be saved from that. Yeah, yeah, and like it was well said. Also. I do, I do agree that that red flags are those things where the the other side is lying to you. The other side is not showing who they truly are. So they're trying to manipulate you. The big one that we heard is when they try to twist the scriptures. When they try to twist the Bible for you to do something that is ungodly, run from that relationship. And how we also heard where. Disrespectful. If if he or she is already disrespecting you when you are dating, listen. Marriage it's that's that's not even showing their full colors yet. That's not even showing their full colors yet. Marriage is when all the colors are come out. So if the other side is disrespecting you, women, girls, run from that guy. Men run from that woman because they will never respect you after you get serious and get married. I think we'll just end service here and we'll just do our last prayer and we'll continue this topic next week. Okay. Are you guys all gonna be able to make it? God willing. God willing. Okay. Well, okay. Let's all stand up, and we'll finish off with a prayer, and we'll end our service. Lord God, we are so thankful, Lord Jesus, for this time, God, that we can. Discuss about biblical relationships, Lord, and what our our church, our youth, our children, our friends should look for, should should go for, and strive for, Lord God, and how we heard a lot of prayer and fasting, Lord God, because these are important marriages, Lord. These are important futures, Lord God. And Lord, if you are not in that relationship, Lord God, then it's just going to be an uphill battle all the way. God, I pray for blessing upon each person here, Lord God, that the power of the of the Holy Spirit teaches us, Lord, how to be in a godly and loving relationship with our other half. Lord, thank you for everything in Jesus' name. Amen. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For your kingdom, your power, and glory.