Control Girl, Ep. 2

Revive Our Hearts

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Shannon Popkin spent many years trying to control her husband. Then she realized damage that controlling attitude was doing to her and to her husband.

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0:00.0	As a wife, Shannon Popkin faces a lot of temptation to control her husband, but she's discovered
0:06.4	the joy of giving up that control to the Lord.
0:09.0	God has so blessed me every time that I let my husband lead, every time that I choose to
0:15.8	surrender. God shaped my heart and he gave me contentment.
0:23.3	And that's what he does when we surrender to him.
0:31.1	This is the Revive of Our Heart's podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamous, author of Adorned. For April 22nd, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.
0:54.5	We're talking about a topic this week that I think maybe every one of us as women, men also, I don't want to leave them out, but I think as women, we wrestle with this in varying ways,
1:00.3	varying degrees, and it's this whole issue of wanting to control our circumstances, the people,
1:05.7	the situations around us, the outcome of our lives, to fix everything, to make it right.
1:12.9	Well, we're talking with our guest, Shannon Popkin, who has written a book that has been very helpful to me and I think to many other women as well. And it's called simply Control Girl. So maybe when you hear
1:19.3	that, you're thinking, well, that's somebody else I know. That's not me. I think as you start to read
1:24.1	and think about it, you may realize there's more inside of us of this
1:28.4	control girl than we realize. The subtitle of this book, Control Girl, Shannon, is Lessons,
1:33.7	which implies that it's something we have to learn, doesn't come naturally, lessons on surrendering.
1:40.1	That's a big word you use in this book. We're going to come back to that again.
1:43.7	Surrendering your burden of control.
1:46.9	Control really is a burden when we feel like it all falls on us, isn't it?
1:50.3	It is. Yeah.
1:51.2	And you've talked about some lessons on surrendering your burden of control based on what you've learned from seven women in the Bible.
1:58.3	Lots more we could learn about these women. These are just vignettes, but you talk
2:02.7	about seven of those women, and we're going to look at one of them today and another one tomorrow.
2:06.6	But I want to go back to a situation you described. I thought it was very poignant. I've heard
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