Hey everyone it's Leslie Ludi hosted the set-apart girl podcast biblical

encouragement for women of all ages.

Today I'd like to dive into a topic that I think is tricky for a lot of us, especially

in those single years, and it's entrusting our marriage dreams to God.

There's a lot of material out there that kind of helps single women solve the problem, quote

unquote, of their singlenessleness go out there and find a guy

get a guy interested in them and along the way if we begin to listen to those

voices that are out there it's very easy to start placing our happiness and our expectations in the hope of a romantic relationship or if we're already

married wrapping our hopes and dreams up in a certain kind of marriage or having our spouse act a certain way towards

us instead of remembering that Jesus Christ always needs to have first place in our

heart and one of the things that I had to learn in my single years and God has

continued to teach me through the past 20-plus years of marriage is that

entrusting my hopes and dreams to him is always a safe thing. We so often think

that we are going to give these precious

dreams and desires that we have to God and he's going to take advantage of us and

make our life miserable and do the opposite of what we've always wanted and just sort of laugh with this

wicked glee as he sees us suffer and that's not in God's nature at all.

One of my favorite scriptures is Psalm 37.4, delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the

desires of your heart. And we've talked about that verse before, but it's been such an encouragement to

me to realize that as I delight in him, as I build my life around him,

as I surrender my dreams to him, he will place his desires within my heart.

And so my desires will begin to match his desires for my life

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