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Revive Our Hearts

Contentment in Singleness, with Charmaine Porter

Revive Our Hearts

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Charmaine Porter tells you how she maintains contentment in singleness, even in an age of social media.

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0:00.0

As a single woman, Charmaine Porter noticed that sometimes she was scrolling through social media and becoming envious of her friends' photos and announcements.

0:09.6

So, she developed a strategy.

0:12.9

I have learned to become a fan of God's glory.

0:17.7

So wherever I see his glory happening, I choose to celebrate that. That may not always be my

0:24.4

instinct, but I get to choose how I respond when I see my friends on Instagram or see them on

0:29.8

Facebook. If God doesn't define me by my relationship status, then why should I? So wherever I start to

0:36.1

see God's glory, I've started to choose to celebrate.

0:39.1

God, be glorified.

0:40.8

All the glory out of this vacation.

0:42.9

All the glory out of this baby.

0:44.3

All the glory out of this relationship.

0:46.3

But I start to become a fan of that.

0:49.8

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Zalgamu, along with Dana Gresh,

0:56.6

for September 13, 2019.

1:07.1

Well, you may be aware that most of my life has been spent as a single woman. For the first

1:12.9

57 years of my life, the Lord gave me what the Apostle Paul would call a gift of being single.

1:19.6

And then in November of 2015, the Lord gave me a new gift, the gift of marriage. Now, each gift,

1:26.6

by the way, comes with both its blessings and its

1:29.6

challenges. And I am truly, deeply grateful for this new season, so grateful for Robert

1:35.5

Walgamuth. But I remember, well, a conversation I had with a single woman just before I got

1:40.5

married, and she said to me, don't forget your single sisters. Well, I haven't forgotten my

1:46.8

single sisters. And here at Revive Our Hearts, we never want to stop being a voice of encouragement

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