When Two Testimonies Meet: Steve and Brenda’s Journey to Freedom and Joy. Part 2

In Part 1 of The Single Christian Women Speak episode, When Two Testimonies Meet: Steve and Brenda’s Journey to Freedom and Joy, the couple share their individual stories that led them to the moment they met. In Part 2, we hear them share how their relationship developed, tidbits of what they have discovered about each other and themselves while embracing freedom and joy together.

Relationship

This episode covers many different aspects of relationships. Steve and Brenda answer the question, “What did you see in each other that solidified the relationship?”

The term “dating” is familiar to describe the introduction time in a relationship when two people get to know one another. But Steve describes how their relationship began in the “get to know time”, as he shares how the two of them began sharing with each other who they are and who they have been.

Stop!

Who sets the boundaries in your relationships? Listen to Steve describe how Brenda was a Godly woman and made it easy for him to not be tempted. “She showed me boundaries.” He elaborates on how Brenda did him a favor as he explains, “Brenda didn’t make it easy for me to be tempted.” Then he gets honest about himself, “If she would have shown me any indication that there was, maybe, boundaries not there, I would taken advantage of it probably.”

Commitment to freedom and joy

Steve compares the wedding experience to “standing around in heaven.” And Brenda shares the support she had from her grown children and its effects as well as her list of standards, she had for a husband. You know that list every single woman has. Brenda had one too.

Expectations

We don't have to have a relationship with someone before knowing their expectations. We can make major expectations clear from the start. Steve and Brenda share a major sacrifice Brenda made because the expectation was discussed before the commitment to marriage. So, there was no surprise, no bitterness, and no resentment.

Intimacy

It is often thought that the relationship with a spouse is the most important relationship in a married person’s life. Hear their answer when asked, “Is the most important relationship you have... with each other?”

Who is this episode for

This episode is for the single woman who is tempted to run ahead of the Lord in search of finding freedom and joy in having a spouse, and who grapples with discouragement, thinking life isn’t going to change.

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