Oftentimes, there's a disconnect between popular thinking and what God's word says, even among believers.

Charmaine Porter sees that disparity in the way people view her marital status.

God has never made me feel belittled or less than or unqualified because of my singleness.

I have unfortunately felt like that in the church, though.

So that to me was, well, then I need to start redefining how I'm thinking about my singleness.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walggam, along with Dana Gresh, for September 12, 2019.

So, can you really trust God with your singleness?

I know that for a lot of singles, that's a difficult question.

You have desires, longings even, that it seems like God will never meet.

Beyond that, you sometimes run into a sort of stigma.

Maybe it's an attitude.

It might be subtle, it might be blatant, but it's that underlying assumption that if you're not married, something must be wrong. Or that things would be better for you if you were married. You can find yourself slipping into those same kinds of thoughts. One reader commented on our true woman blog and expressed those kinds of feelings. Listen to the ache in her words. She said, in two weeks, I will turn 51. I've never been married, and as a result, I don't have children. I want to believe God has a plan for me, and that's why I'm still single. But it's still easy to fall into thinking that maybe he knows

I'm not good enough to be a wife. Or maybe I've sinned so many times, being alone is my punishment.

Even as a Christian, she says, I find it hard to look forward to the future. I don't understand

why so many are blessed with families and husbands. Does God love those women more?

Well, our guest today and tomorrow is here to help expose our wrong ways of thinking about

singleness.

And she'll help us get our attention where it belongs, whether we're married or single,

on the glory of God.

And, Dana, you've known Charmaine Porter for some years now. Oh, you bet, Nancy. I love Charmaine. She was a traveling member of the

true girl live events for three years. Right now, she's the learning community coordinator

at a ministry called Impact 360 Fellowship. It's kind of a gap year. And she's the learning community coordinator at a ministry called Impact 360 Fellowship.

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