How to Use This Site

What To Do

1. For starters, read the blog and participate by commenting on the posts.

2. Next, become a member of the Women Praying Boldly community.

3. Once you've joined, you'll be prompted to create your own Women Praying Boldly group and invite your friends to join.

Your group page default settings are private so only the people you invite to join will be able to see your page. It's the perfect place to talk with your friends about how you're praying for one another, share ideas for meeting godly men and building relationships with them, and rejoice over the ways God is working in your lives.

4. If you'd rather not host your own group, you can join one of the site groups, like HGM, and make some new friends in the process.

If you've ever wanted a place where you can find encouragement, hope, and practical ideas for getting married, this is the place.

Why Pray Boldly? Because God wants us to. Because it changes us.

Jesus said, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. . . . If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer” (Matthew 7:7–8, Matthew 21:22).

For all the damage done by two generations of feminist activism, think of the positive change that could come if a generation of women prayed faithfully for Godly marriages. When you pray, it changes you, transforming your character and making it possible to live daily like you’re planning to marry. But beyond that, such prayer can transform a whole community: families, churches, small groups, college campuses, workplaces, wherever the faithfully praying women spend their time. Imagine in the midst of our postmarriage culture, small counter-cultures springing up where marriage is honored, men are respectfully motivated, women are cherished, mentors are working on your behalf, purity is esteemed; in short, where everyone is striving for the set-apart life Paul described in 1 Thessalonians 3:11–4:8.*

Why Here? Because it's easy, private, global, and free.

When I was pregnant with our daughter, my three roommates from grad school were all pregnant, too. Even though we all lived in different cities, we met nearly every day to talk, pray, cry, commiserate, laugh and more. Email connected us across the miles and made it possible to stay connected. Unfortunately, all those messages are gone. There's just no easy way to manage 1,000 plus emails interspersed with thousands more. I'm not even sure I still have the same computer. The nature of email has left me with no record. Women Praying Boldly makes it possible to capture the experience of praying for your future husband, cataloging your conversations in one convenient, discreet, accessible place.

What Happens When You Pray Boldly? God answers.

Consider Sharon, one of the women featured in the book.

Sharon listed all her unmarried friends who desired marriage—30 in all—and on January 1, 2006, she emailed everyone on the list. She told them about her plan—a commitment from everyone on the list, to pray for everyone on the list—and asked them to join.

Not everyone was enthusiastic. Some of her friends had to pray about praying before they agreed. To them it was such a bold, untried approached that they worried about putting God on their timetable or demanding something of Him. Others knew He was capable but wondered if He’d do it for them. Still Sharon went forward. “God put the idea on my heart and I was eager to follow through. James says, ‘we do not have because we do not ask,’ and I realized I didn’t want to be single simply because I wasn’t asking God for a husband.”

By February she had emailed out the official prayer list to the girls and except for one who declined the invitation to join, they were praying.

“Never had I heard of thrity women joining together like this to share their prayers, fears, challenges and joys as they went on dates, had failed relationships, etc.,” Sharon recalls. “But it worked. When we started, only one of the women on the list was dating. One year later, out of thirty women, six were married or engaged to be married, and one was dating.”*

*Taken from Get Married, Moody Publishers, © 2008 by Candice Watters