When Nancy Lee DeMoss began a relationship with Robert Woglemouth, she had been content in serving the Lord in singleness for a long time.

To this point of my life, the Lord has never awakened love in my heart toward a man.

And God would have to put something in my heart that has never been there.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, November 18th, 2015.

This week, we've been hearing the unexpected love story between Nancy and Robert Wogamuth.

It's a story that helps all of us consider our lives. Are we fully surrendered to the Lord?

Does he control every part of life?

After Nancy and Robert began their courtship, they started getting to know each other,

reading each other's books and having a lot of conversations together. Although Nancy was seeing God's

leadership in this relationship, and although her love and respect for Robert was growing,

she was still wrestling with the question, is marriage God's will for my life?

Here's Nancy.

This was all very new to me.

I think to most people this can sound a little strange, but if you think of how many years

I had served the Lord as a single woman with a sense of having been gifted for that,

this was something of a seismic shift.

This relationship was a type of holy disruption in Nancy's life. It caused her to seek the Lord

in new ways, and God was faithful to give her wisdom as she prayed and waited on him.

There's something else that surfaced in my heart

that I didn't even know was there, and it came to my mind early on in this process. In fact,

I was at my home church one Sunday morning, just participating in the worship, enjoying the presence

of the Lord, and this was never far from my mind. These conversations were new, this possibility of marriage was very new to me, and I was growing to love this man and wanting to know what the Lord thought about all of this. But also, the thought of being married to anyone was so foreign to me and something that had been so far off my radar for a very long time

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