EP 14: DATING WITH INTENTION: Questions Every Christian Should Ask

[@TheSingleManPodcast]

Glad I stumbled on your podcast as a single Christian man!

[@kristenf3076]

Thank you guys so much for this! After a failed worldly relationship, I spent 2years healing spiritual and mentally. Abstinent , no dating, no entertaining. In May this year, a few guys “popped up” and though they had characteristics that I liked about them, my discernment was so high that I could spot the red flags from a mile away and could quickly move on. As well, they didn’t have a relationship with God or served some other “god”. This is very encouraging for me to wait on God !! I desire to honor God with my life and my marriage. 🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@naturallygigi3294]

Yes, prayer is crucial before every encounter…

[@intentionalrising]

So crucial. Especially for discernment ❤️

[@yolz555]

Yep😊

[@viska1899]

You two are just a beautiful couple!!! So beautiful to look at! I'm in this exact season and through prayers God led me to your videos somehow. I am happy I came across this because these are my exact prayers to God, but hearing yall describe it, makes it so much more real. God bless yall!! Speaking of judging my past!!! My past relationship was exactly that and led to us breaking up!!! Omg I am so glad your covered this!

[@JaimieNicole75]

As believers, no sex outside of marriage should be a given. God commands it. But I also know sexual immorality is running rampant amongst the single believers so sadly that question does need to be asked😩We should definitely be praying for one another in that area🙏🏾

[@tiffaneysearcy9073]

I believe it's important to know how a person is maintaining celibacy in the meantime and what boundaries they are willing to put in place to make sure the relationship remains pure

[@Charitywdalocss]

I love the mini conversation around boundaries with friends. So important!

[@brendalinda2902]

Jst landed on you recently on KZbin and fell in love with you guys mere fact it's intentional rising, and the fact that your Christians , I love you more and are glad to be there

[@vintagegallerina]

I’m enjoying listening to you and appreciate your insight. A statement that I am flagging is when you are discussing how sex can delay kingdom spouses. While obedience is paramount, the reasons for the Lords delays are more complex than that. It’s not necessarily that He says “she needs more time.” Understanding the assignments placed on our lives and the purpose of our unions is paramount; focusing on sexual obedience only isn’t the entirety of this. Many of us still have maturing to do, pruning, experiences, seasons of loss/learning - all that takes time too. I think it’s unhelpful to associate our actions with Gods timing bc it may insinuate that we can manipulate, control or prompt an outcome we desire. That just didn’t sit well with me when you were discussing that.

[@intentionalrising]

@@vintagegallerina Thank you for your perspective but we will have to agree to disagree on that one because we do believe our actions have consequences and sometimes that consequence is delay. God knows all and he would have rather it happened earlier but he knows we were going to mess up. Delay is part of Gods timing but that doesn’t make it meaningless in regards to his timing. And we did not say sex is the only reason for delay. It’s one of many, along with things like pruning, maturity, etc. We are talking about what pertains to this topic of waiting till marriage. Our other episodes cover other things you speak of but we are being specific to this topic which is why we highlight only sex but that doesn’t disregard other things. And we mentioned that not everyone needs to have that conversation initially, she was prompted by the Holy Spirit to do it on the 2nd date. She mentioned that it’s not a 1 size fits all approach. It has to be Holy Spirit led on when to have that conversation. I think you may have taken a few things out of context but thank you for disagreeing in a respectful manner. We really appreciate that, it’s not common. God bless 🙏

[@vintagegallerina]

@@intentionalrising thank you for your response

[@preciouseyakndue1723]

Glad I came on this in my season of waiting ❤❤❤… God bless you both 🔥🔥🔥

[@JaimieNicole75]

Love question #1! Out the gate!

[@intentionalrising]

Yep. No messing around 😂

[@preciouseyakndue1723]

Really love your honesty regarding these sensitive topics 😊😊…

[@Leigh-y8q]

Damn the second question is so hard 😩😣 because it's imperative to ask that question but it feels like you risk being lonely. Most guys just turn away, lose interest, ridicule or even think they should test how serious you are about waiting through misrepresentation. I sometimes feel despondent.😔

[@destinyroman504]

Soo good ! So true ! Jesus desires a pure Bride 🤍

[@intentionalrising]

@@destinyroman504 yesss

[@vintagegallerina]

I think what’s important to remember is that how a woman carries/conducts herself speaks volumes about her standards first. It sends a signal to the man that she’s deliberate and someone who is outside of the norm. That initial interaction or first few dates usually weeds out the riffraff, therefore, the discussion about abstinence is delayed or at least its priority is mitigated. I don’t think that a woman should bring it up and should rely on her composure to make her potential companion nervous to approach a sexual subject for several dates. Works for me

[@ALOYALLEO2815]

GOD SPEAKS IN HIS WORD AND AUDIBLE, people look for signs and wonders instead of looking in the word. It perplexes me how people want to hear God audibly and discount his word. God is always speaking The question is are we listening???

[@Purposeful_Pain]

I 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 everything about this episode as I am dating with the intent to marriage I have a podcast question what are the microphone connected to , what do you use to record your video ? I’m working on getting better with my podcast

[@Ghadeer-f6c]

Your hair is beautiful 💘😿

[@kortorachelkoigbli8638]

With the dictionary meaning of dating and also how controversial it has become, do you think Christians should use this word?

[@letisiamatheus]

Christians word for dating is called courtship, a lot of people don't really know this concept.