1. Desperately Seeking Someone1
Desperately Seeking Someone

4. Desperately Seeking Someone: Rules
Don’t be desperate

5. Desperation =
Stop being available

6. Desperation =
Stop being available
Compromise

7. Desperation =
Stop being available
Compromise
Marry badly

8. Desperate des·per·ate “…a state of recklessness caused by despair.”

9. 5 For You are my hope; O Lord God, You are my confidence from my youth
5 For You are my hope; O Lord God, You are my confidence from my youth. 6 By You I have been sustained from my birth; You are He who took me from my mother’s womb; My praise is continually of You.
Psalms 71:5-6

10. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and of Christ Jesus, who is our hope,
- I Timothy 1:1

11. 32 But I want you to be free from concern
32 But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; 33 but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,
- I Corinthians 7:32-33

12. Desperately Seeking Someone: Rules
Don’t be desperate
Know what you’re looking for

13. Don’t marry an unbeliever
The Non-Negotiables
Don’t marry an unbeliever
Do not be bound together with unbelievers;
- II Corinthians 6:14a

14. The Non-Negotiables
Don’t marry an unbeliever
Marry for love, not lust

15. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
- I Thessalonians 4:3-5

16. Know what you’re looking for
The Non-Negotiables
Don’t marry an unbeliever
Marry for love, not lust
Know what you’re looking for

17. What You’re Looking For
Do they love God?

18. What You’re Looking For
Do they love God?
Do you love what you know about this person?

19. What You’re Looking For
Do they love God?
Do you love what you know about this person?
Does the other person love you?

20. Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
Ever made by the hand above?
A woman's heart, and a woman's life—
And a woman's wonderful love.
Do you know you have asked for this priceless thing
As a child might ask for a toy?
Demanding what others have died to win,
With the reckless dash of a boy.

21. You have written my lesson of duty out,
Manlike, you have questioned me
Now stand at the bars of my woman's soul
Until I shall question thee.
You require your mutton shall always be hot,
Your socks and your shirt be whole;
I require your heart to be true as God's stars
And as pure as His heaven your soul.

22. You require a cook for your mutton and beef,
I require a far greater thing;
A seamstress you're wanting for socks and shirts—
I look for a man and a king.
A king for the beautiful realm called Home,
And a man that the Maker, God,
Shall look upon as He did the first
And say, "It is very good."

23. I am fair and young, but the rose will fade
From my soft, young cheek one day,
Will you love me then 'mid the falling leaves,
As you did 'mid the blossoms of May?
Is your heart an ocean so strong and true,
I may launch my all on its tide?
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day she is made a bride.

24. I require all things that are grand and true,
All things that a man should be;
If you give all this, I would stake my life
To be all you demand of me.
If you cannot do this, a laundress and cook
You can hire and little to pay;
But a woman's heart and a woman's life
Are not to be won that way.

25. Marry for love because it’s the only thing that taxes and old age can’t take away from you.

26. In Your Seeking for a Partner, Remember:
Stay fixed on Jesus

27. In Your Seeking for a Partner, Remember:
Stay fixed on Jesus
Commit to someone committed to Christ

28. In Your Seeking for a Partner, Remember:
Stay fixed on Jesus
Commit to someone committed to Christ
You’re on God’s timetable

29. The first step in finding the right partner is to become a right partner yourself.