Shimmie,
This is wonderfully sweet!
Ladies, I tell ya, When I let Pebbles know that I was getting married, she was like "I knew already because I'd been praying for many of my single sisters in this area... " (not her exact words but something like that) So it's a really AWESOME thing to have both of these ladies petitioning God like this for you! I also pray that He would fulfill your desires in this area.
I believe that God revealed something to me a few years ago. I wondered why SO many desirable and God-loving women had to endure the pain of waiting and uncertainty when it came to marriage. It just seemed like so many. Even I remember a time like this for me. I asked why. I believe that the Lord revealed this to me:
The divorce rate is too high, even among Christians. It has gotten way out of hand. Waiting and enduring for something makes us appreciate and cherish it to a higher degree. If we stand against becoming desperate in our waiting and don't jump to marry the first thing with legs then we will marry the
right one for us ,and we are far less likely to take it for granted. And when you argue with him, you will tell yourself "I'm so happy to have a husband to argue with!"
You will say to yourself "I'd rather be sitting here disagreeing with him than sitting and wondering, when? if? who? like I used to."
And best of all, when your season of matrimony finally does come around, you will understand why you were not
truly ready to be married back in 200? or 199?. You will appreciate God for loving you enough to put you through a waiting season to become the kind of wife that is "always a fountain of blessing to her husband." (paraphrase from Proverbs) You will see that He loved you so much that He took time to build you up so that you don't "tear down your marriage with your own hands." (paraphrase from Proverbs)
You probably can't tell now, but He is making you into an excellent wife--one who is capable of having a lasting, loving, healthy, wholesome marriage rather than just a marriage.
Bless your hearts--all of you, married and those who will be in due season ...