Will God Reveal Your Future Spouse to You?

Elizabeth addresses a thought-provoking question from Instagram: Does God reveal to us who our future spouse is? Elizabeth dives into examples from Scripture and the lives of saints, discussing how rare it is for God to give direct instructions about a future spouse. Instead, she emphasizes the importance of free will, discernment, and trust in God’s guidance as you navigate dating and marriage. This insightful video encourages you to approach marriage discernment with an open heart, prayer, and personal responsibility. Whether you’re single, dating, or discerning marriage, this episode is packed with wisdom and encouragement.

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Man I have never experienced there being “many choices” when it comes to finding someone to marry

[BarbaraMarieLouise]

Good advice! Would only add something: if it’s not good for you and you ask God if He thinks it’s not good, than he helps you to figure it out or it suddenly just stops. So that’s what usually happens to me as I’m bad at choosing. So I made this deal with Him that he bewares me of the wrong ones. And He does a very good job doing it and I‘m thankful for it!

[mvtghcc]

It’s true! There is always our free will but the more we allow God to guide our path, the more He provides what He would like for us. I prayed about my career, my house, my relationships and God has shown me what He wants in those then I have said yes. I don’t see why God won’t do that with a spouse. Sometimes God says, “No” and we don’t listen. God has given me graces I didn’t ask for. He can definitely provide a spouse because it’s natural. Every marriage is a service to the church so why wouldn’t He provide that?

[paulmitchell]

Very good teaching! When I was a senior in high school (1981!) I prayed and prayed about a career decision, and I got a pretty distinct answer: "I want you to go ahead and decide".. I puzzled and puzzled if that really could have been the Lord's voice, because I'd never heard that He might say something like that..

[humbleeagle]

You need to binge watch youtube love stories. You will find out that those who receive the knowing who their future spouse is all began by first asking His help in finding one. And by doing so they are asking for an arranged marriage from the Father. A common theme among the stories is that knowledge of who there future spouse is can be given well before meeting that person. This of course leads to some very interesting love stories like for instance a woman continuously rejecting a man persuing and then has a complete change of heart and marries him.

[vanillafoodie]

Thank you, the way you explained this topic made me picture myself in a garden with God asking me to choose which fruit trees I want to plant, He offers me all good seeds that can bear good fruits it just depends which fruit do I like and if I want to learn and apply His method to grow the tree or not.

Garden = My journey in life
Fruit seeds = Options and choices in life

He will guide indeed and bless the journey for He is God. God bless you all brothers and sisters ^^

[ziesha.marie]

God shown me mine in snippets all I got a nationality, body shape and face but no name! I pray every day an hand it over to him

[reubenrodrigues]

Got it! Become a good catholic and everything that follows would be fine as God could work through you and in you.

[reubenrodrigues]

I am so hungry for every video that comes from the Theology of the body institute, thanks for these videos! you all r in my prayers, everyday. Hope you guys can Come to India sometimes, to love to have you in Bombay, Mumbai. I pray for a center of the TOBI, in my Rosary everyday. Hope Our Lady makes a way.

[Jennifer-grhn]

Yes, thank you. It's very important can't hear HIM, if we can't hear ourselves! I'm very thankful for a very rough childhood that brought me to Him very young..He was ALL I heard, thank God. I'm still single and struggling, but it taught me very young to listen well to others, and helped me with my patients. Listening is SO big and Catholics have a big problem with it as they say prayers a lot and possibly deceive themselves into thinking it's a connection but it's more so talking at God vs talking with and listening to Him. So big. I'd add another confession, etc but also mental health, learning root wounds, attachment styles, etc. Important to know ourselves as well as possible.

[istotatora]

Yes a male friend who I know 4 years and patiently waited and I had a personal revelation in prayer and meditation that he is God's best choice for me. Yet I have met countless Catholic men that would be a wonderful Catholic husband.

[vanessatima]

Always looking forward to your videos. Thanks so much for this, especially now when I am asking the Lord to take away the fear of marriage from me.
I pray for the grace to have a good confession (hopefully with a Mercy priest), and have and active prayer life in which I listen more to Him.
Very timely video for me. Thanks so much❤

[cbentler]

What about when you feel like there are no choices?

[annakareninacamara]

I'd just add "addiction" to "abuse" in the no-go list. You can't possibly live a healthy life with someone who even before marriage is addicted to any sin. If they can't heal themselves before, don't expect them to heal later. And the consequences all will be much deeper within marriage.

[nickkoeppel]

Thanks for this video! It's really helpful!

[joseandres]

Whenever I'm told that it's up to me to choose and do it under God's commandments and guidelines from scripture, all I can think is:

I'm doomed. I'm so, so doomed.

In my case, it's been impossible for me to not only find a high-caliber woman that I can both feel attracted to and admire, but also being worthy of said woman, having the stuff that she wants her man to have.

So I'm pretty much counting on God to perform a literal miracle to meet this hypothetical woman, because I refuse to choose someone that makes me say "meh, she's fine, she's cute and nice, doesn't do much but hey, at least she said yes". And God forbid she thinks that about me, too, that would be pathetic. Where I come from, we have a term for this: "un peor-es-nada" (a worse-is-nothing). God please don't let me be that.

[mrwilliam]

Could you kindly share some scriptures that would be helpful for further/personal study of this topic?

[wh]

What do you mean by waiting? Should I go out and try to find a woman that I have not been doing good at lately or will he put her in my path one day? I’m so confused of how to find a woman right now. I just feel like I’m not doing it right I don’t know

[jorgeandrescoppiano]

Hi Elizabeth! Hope You are doing very well. How can I tell if I am listening to God's voice? 6:40

[rossanasparvoli]

I know we have free will but... isn't the whole point of it to freely choose to obey Him??? 🤔 Seriously, I've seen multiple times that the angels and saints who are in Heaven technically don't have free will anymore... so I guess we should try to know His Will so we can do as He wishes? Isn't so? However it seems to me that He only exposes His Will in very rare special occasions, and not for everyone though...