Does God Choose Your Spouse?

Does God choose your spouse? Or do you? In this honest conversation, I sat down with my husband Nathaniel, a licensed marriage and family therapist, to tackle one of the most loaded questions in Christian dating. And we didn't come with a simple yes or no. We talk about what it actually means to involve God in your mate selection process, why so many Christian singles are dating without ever consulting the Lord, and why the real question isn't whether God chooses your spouse, it's whether you actually want Him to and if so what that entails. We share our personal journeys, including the name God gave me that wasn't Nathaniel, why Nathaniel kept choosing the wrong person until he submitted his preferences to the Lord, and what it means that God said to me "it's your choice" when I asked if Nathaniel was the one. This conversation is for the single who is tired of the black and white answers. The one who has been formed by other people's testimonies and is trying to figure out what God is actually saying to them. We are not the end all be all, but we believe what we share is rooted in faith and will point you back to the Lord. We also get into the hot takes — including why men and women have very different preferences the Lord wants them to surrender and why the Lord is not going to bring you to a marriage you are not spiritually mature enough to steward. We close in prayer for every single watching — including those who feel like they made the wrong choice and are now walking through the consequences of that. 📖 If you are navigating singleness and this conversation resonated, my book Ready Set Wait was written for you. 👉 Grab your copy here: https://amzn.to/3PwfTgF 💬 Subscribe and join Sade and Nathaniel every week for honest conversations about faith, singleness and marriage. Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:00 Why are we having this conversation? 02:27 Nathaniel's stance — God chooses your spouse when you want Him to 06:34 Did the Lord choose us for each other? 13:36 How did Nathaniel know Sade was