When Nancy Lee DeMoss was invited into a relationship, she first needed to seek the Lord for his will.

I am a woman who is bound first above any other loyalty to the authority of Scripture and the Lordship of Christ.

I knew that to this point I had been equipped and gifted by the Lord to serve him as a

single woman. And these passages in the New Testament in particular that seem to indicate that

maybe if you could serve the Lord as a single, then you should. And I said, I need to know from

God's word, is their freedom to consider marriage.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, November 17, 2015.

Yesterday, we began part one of a series called Unexpected Grace, Robert and Nancy's story.

We heard how Nancy felt called to ministry from a young age and embraced the gift of singleness as she pursued that ministry.

We also got to know Robert Wogglemouth, who had lost his

wife, Bobby, of 44 years to cancer. When Robert started emailing and getting to know Nancy,

she wasn't sure she could get into a relationship if God was still giving her the gift of

singleness. This very different kind of

love story is a reminder to all of us to seek the Lord for his will and his direction for every

season and big decision of our lives. Now let's pick up as Robert was emailing Nancy.

There came a point when I got an email from Robert that was newsy.

It was kind of updating on what was happening in his family, and it wasn't intensely personal.

And I remember thinking, this is interesting.

I knew Nancy, so I sent her an email.

I wanted to know where the Lord might take this.

There were a few of these emails and I would respond not too quickly.

My suspicion was that Nancy knew that my reaching out to her was out of the ordinary. But at one point I remember thinking,

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