Future Husband, Present Prayers: How Praying While You Wait Transforms Your Singleness and Prepares You for Marriage

by Christian Bevere, Lisa Bevere (Foreword)

Singleness can feel like...waiting. Like you're just hoping the right guy stumbles along while you stand by. But what if there was a resource that showed how you can move from passively waiting to actively praying for your future husband? Christian Bevere shares how single women can lace their desire for marriage with prayer—moving from a place of uncertainty to expectation.

Women often want to believe for their future spouse, but in doing so, struggle with feeling vain, timid, or lost. In Future Husband, Present Prayers, Christian Bevere shares how praying for her future husband transformed her singleness into a time of preparation and significance. With a voice of seasoned wisdom, Christian invites you into a faith-led journey, showing how praying for your future spouse isn't a maneuver to hurry the process, rather, it's a way to cover your partner and heighten your vision for what you're believing for.

While addressing questions like "How do I know if he's the one?" and "How do I trust God's plan when all my friends are getting married and I'm not?", Christian encourages readers to consider contending for their husbands through prayer as a form of active waiting. Christian shows readers why, how, and what to pray for their future husbands, including sample prayers to begin the practice.

In this book, readers

Learn new ways to flourish as a single woman while interceding for their future marriageGrow closer to God as they navigate an unmet longingExplore the necessity of prayer for any season of anticipationFind practical and powerful prompts for praying over their future spouseDistinguish what areas are most important to pray intoFeel equipped to shape their dating lives with Scripture as they searchAvoid settling in relationships by prayerfully cultivating a vision for their future, kingdom-building relationship 

If you embrace this season and allow God to speak to you through it, He can do exceedingly more in you and ahead of you than you can yet imagine.

Genres: Christian, Christian Living

Kindle Edition

Published February 10, 2026

Reviews

[ProseAndPetals · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the premise and the content, but I think it could have been more organized. I also don’t like how the author portrays marriage as something everyone needs in life. I know it is a small percentage of people not married, but sometimes God doesn’t have some people marry and that is alright.


Thank you NetGalley for this audiobook. The narrator reads the book like it’s her own words. She did a very good job.

[Michelle Clippinger · Rating 4 out of 5]

If only this book had been published 10 years sooner 🩷 I stayed the course because it simply felt like a warm hug from a longtime friend, even if it wasn’t the most applicable in my current season. Would highly recommend to anyone in the waiting and dating.

[Josie Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was gifted to me a few weeks ago, and I know the Lord knew I needed it. I think I started weeping by the end of chapter 1. And I started recommending it to everyone I knew by the end of chapter 2. In the Christian-dating book genre, it’s rare to read a book so relatable to women who have been waiting long and patiently for a husband. Bevere’s audience is women in their later twenties and thirties, which is so refreshing and so needed. She’s written something so special and encouraging here.

[Luna West · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm so sorry but is this book biblical? Maybe I'll get heat for this but that may expected in an echo-chamber. I don't see how it could be biblical though. Let me explain.

PRECURSOR: I'm not saying wanting marriage is bad, I'm not saying praying for that is bad, I'm not saying asking God for a husband is bad. I am saying the manner in which she promotes the means to the end is bad.

Now... onwards.

Nothing in this book reflects how anyone is supposed to wait on ANYTHING, much less a husband. Part Two literally addresses my main concern about becoming "obsessive" (bc that's the vibe I was getting) and so I thought "Oh, okay. We're good!" but then she proceeds in that section and the rest of Part Two to go into everything that would make one obsessed. What is a Husband's Bible anyway? And writing letters can't be healthy either. I get maybe one or two, but it seems like this was something she did and encourages others to do often? I feel like she addressed it because she knew people would say "Isn't this obsessive?" but addressing it doesn't mean it's not there. This is a good way to hide something in plain sight. I understand she attempted to back this up w scripture throughout, but it was grasping at straws for me. There is no biblical pattern or method for the behavior she encourages. My sister also read this and said something along the lines of: "When Elijah asked God to call fire down, he literally just asked. There was no weird ritual needed, in fact, the prophets of baal were doing the rituals."

Scripture clearly supports praying for future things (Philippians 4:6; Matthew 7:7). That’s not controversial at all. What isn’t clearly taught is constructing an entire structured system around a hypothetical spouse (writing letters to him, developing detailed “prophetic” narratives about him, crafting identity-based declarations about him, etc.).

It also really blurs manifestation behavior and God's sovereignty. At times, the tone gives off, speak it, read it, here it comes! Which I don't see how that's different from manifestation, which we clearly need to be avoiding. You can say all you want "It's not!" or "Hannah prayed for Samuel!" but nowhere do we see in the Bible that people were doing all this business. Hannah cried out to God, she went to the temple, she didn't make rituals out of nothing. There is so much emotional attachment to a person who is not existing in your world yet which CANNOT be healthy.

It also lacks explicit apostolic precedent. There is no apostolic instruction to engage in structured romantic spiritual rehearsal. Maybe this isn't inherently sinful, but it's definitely extra-biblical in a way that I can't connect back to any known passage...

I just find it sad that people are reading this and finding refuge in it. To me, it speaks to a wider problem we have in Christian culture/society where finding a husband becomes a source of ever-longing and no one ever tries to stop people from romanticization because it's uncomfortable and makes people face reality. Which is... you aren't promised anything.

This book feels more like a band-aid to me. A very weak psychological band-aid that's not based in the Bible or Christ's behavior. Please do yourself a favor and just avoid this. Pray, ask God, but don't engage in all this extra floof.

[Nere · Rating 5 out of 5]

First, I want to thank NetGalley and W Publishing Audiobooks for this ALC (Advance Listener Copy). This is my own honest opinion.

I started this book the very same day, just hours before, I was told my divorce was finalized. I can't even put into works how fitting and comforting it felt. It felt like a gift! It was as if God had already prepared closure for me before I knew I would need it. This book became the gentle, faith filled ending I never received and the hopeful beginning I didn't see yet.

What I loved most was how deeply rooted everything was in Scripture and the advise that was shared. (Buy a bible and praying for your future husband). My insecurity in praying is gone after reading this. The metaphors were great: Gordon Ramsey's recipes, Green Light/Red Light Game, and an Umbrella to name a few.

Finally, the concept of reactive waiting vs active waiting was new to me but eye opening.

[Megan Crawford · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dw guys I won't be getting married anytime soon! But preparing my heart for a future serious relationship/marriage in my later 20s is something that has been on my mind. I just had no idea how to start thinking about the concept of praying for a future marriage because I am an oaf. This book wasn't perfect but it was a good starting point because it gave me good things to think about during my quiet time with God. I liked that it wasn't a dating how-to but rather was about focusing on your relationship with the Lord and how the work you put in now will benefit your future dating relationships/marriage.

[Monica · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read along with my friend as she navigates her breakup journey - not my style or preferred genre of books, but we set a routine every week to meet and discuss what’s in this book or what we read.

In all, it was too biblical for me. I am religious, but I’m having a hard time wrapping my mind around being rewarded for being a good woman with a husband through prayer…

Maybe this is for someone who is single and religiously follows their Christian faith. And now I know this is not the style of book I will venture to read again; as for my friend - she loved it because of the scripture ties into the paragraphs. She did spend 10+ years as a Sunday school teacher.

[Karen Darby · Rating 5 out of 5]

I listened to the audiobook (narrated by Christian herself) and it was great. She was so animated and it felt like I was hanging out with my good friend.

Christian made the content very relatable, even including examples of her own time being single and waiting. She ends each chapter with a prayer, which was a good touch.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone in the waiting. Also get her journal, where you write down all your thoughts and prayers to present to your husband in the future.

[Jodi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book reflects the prayers and sentiment around being your true self and the hardwork of attracting a husband. It is another book that faith is the way and the leaving it to God. Ensuring you stay true to who you are as well as what to include in your marriage as reflection of statistics as well as formula to keep trying during difficult times. Many thanks to Netgalley, author and publisher for the opportunity.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wise, helpful book for young single women who are longing for a godly husband. Like a caring big sister, Christian Bevere relates to them with her personal stories and gently guides them with biblical advice. She affirms the common frustrations and desires, and gives suggestions that will relieve pressure and renew hope. It's a thoughtful book to help young women prepare for marriage while holding onto their faith.

[Kaitlyn Hull · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow!!! This book was truly so amazing! Such a good book for single gals that shows us purpose in waiting rather than being passive in this season. Have been begging all my friends to read and have even been reading some chapters out loud to them because it is THAT GOOD! So excited to start working through the Dear Future Husband journal!

[Ro Cartes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

I am giving this a 3.5 🌟 and not because it’s bad or anything! It just wasn’t for me. A little too simple for where I’m at in my journey, and so I personally didn’t get too much out of it. I did however love her idea of buying her future husband a Bible and writing little notes and letters within it.

[Abby Joy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love Christian’s wise insight on how to prepare and wait well if marriage is something God has in store for the future. Praying draws us nearer to God and that’s the best thing we can do in the waiting and after. 💖

[Shawni Rogers · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you are looking for tools to help pray for your future spouse, this is it. I highly recommend this book. Be blessed

[Gracie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really beautiful book! I've listened to Christian's podcast for years, and this did not disappoint.

[Georgia · Rating 5 out of 5]

so encouraging and wonderful. God is good and he has worked through Christian Bevere to write this meaningful book to women 🩷

[Abby · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars, I truly have no notes. Christian was reading my mind when she wrote this, I will definitely be rereading there are so many notes to take!