Author and Poet Elaine C. Whittaker

Chapter Six

Don’t Listen to Naysayers

“There aren’t any good men.” “You’ll never get married.” “You’re too

picky.” These are things I was told when I was single. I did not heed them

and neither should you. My desire was to be married and I believed God

would give me the desires of my heart if I would be patient.

You have to believe that God wants to bless you no matter how long you

have to wait or how many disappointments come your way. There was a

young man I worked with who one day literally said to me, “You’re never

going to get married. You’re going to be an old maid!” I immediately

replied to him, “I do not receive that. I will get married!” It would have

been easy for me to believe his statement being that I was in my early

thirties and had no prospects in sight. But I refused to do so.

You cannot allow people to have the last say so over your life.

I am sure that you have heard the depressing statistics of the probability

of women meeting and marrying a good man or the discouraging male to

female ratio. You must know that God’s blessings are not based on

statistics. His blessings are based on His Word and your ability to

believe His Word.

Please understand that there is no “Mr. Right.” If you are waiting for a

perfect man then you are waiting in vain because he does not exist. No

man is all right or all wrong. The objective is to know by spiritual

discernment who is right for you and who fits your life perfectly.

So do not listen to the naysayers. When the time is right God will bless

you with the man that is perfect for you.

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