Bachelorette in Paradise

Meisha Watson · Tidal Church Moncton · January 11, 2026 · love, sex, relationships series

Meisha Watson looks at 1 Corinthians 7 and shares her own story of singleness. She explains that Paul calls both singleness and marriage a gift, and that single believers have an undivided devotion to the Lord, so no one is lacking in God's eyes.

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Transcript

[0:00] So yes. Hi. My name is Meisha Watson. You don't know yet, but you'll know pretty soon. I'm English, but I am very Canadian. Okay. I've been in Canada for over 20 years. I might actually be more Canadian than some of you because I've been to the Yukon Territories. Have any of you been to the Yukon Territories? Didn't think so. There is one guy in the back, but usually there's nobody. And I can say, wow, I did that all by myself. So yes, my name is Meisha Watson. I am actually, hold on a second. I'm Meisha Watson. I'm 36. I enjoy short walks on the beach, hot and honey wings. I enjoy the fact that one day I will probably, maybe kind of sort of try pickleball, probably not. I really love Jesus in a loud way and I'm single now.

[0:54] I will tell you, I've been single officially for the last seven years. That's when I started doing my research on Christian singleness. But those that love me, my mom, my dad, my brothers, my sister-in-law, my nieces, my friends, everybody just cannot wait to get me married. That is their goal. And honestly, I love that for me. Can't wait. When I do have my wedding, you are all invited. You will be required to bring a gift, but you are all certainly invited. So that's been a part of my story for quite a long time. But even at the very beginning of this experience of a single adulthood, I knew that there was something more to my story than simply a preparation for the next season. I knew that there had to be something more. So today I'm gonna share with you a lot of my story.

[1:41] We're gonna get personal here today. For some of you, you'll deeply relate to my story. For some of you who are single or single again, you'll be able to look at your story, maybe through a new lens. And for some of you, it's been a long time. It's been a minute since you could relate to a story of adult singleness or maybe you were married when you were younger, 2021, that sort of thing. And this is an entirely new concept to you, the 30 plus, 35 plus experience of Christian singleness. So today, I hope that you learn, that you experience it, you learn better how to support this community and also what this part of your community has to share. So that's what I'm gonna walk you through. But first, we're gonna pray. Father God, we thank You so much that we get to do church together.

[2:28] We get to worship You. We get to have good and proper worship by not only reading Your Word, but reading Your Word as a church family. I pray, Lord God, that You make the words that come outta my mouth go right from Your heart through my mouth and to the hearts of those people in this room right now. Lord God, we love You. Father, we glorify Your name always in Jesus' name. And everyone in the building said, and everyone on the camera say, oh, that's so cute. Oh, thanks. I thought it would be silent. Okay, so I thought we would get started by looking at the state of singleness. Now I'm gonna give you a couple statistics. I'll just warn you, it might be a bit of a bummer, but it gets better. Okay? So stay with me here. So what is the average age of marriage in Canada? The age that most people get married in Canada as of right now.

[3:15] Can anyone shout it out to me what they think it is? Whoa. Who did research? It was you. 31. That's right. So a lot of the times you get a lot of research about marriage and singleness and divorce and things like that. It comes from the nineties and so, yeah, I know, especially a lot of the stuff I found from Canada. But as of recently, 31 is the average age of someone getting married in Canada. You may remember the statistic on divorce. 50% of marriages end in divorce. True or false? False. Yeah, that's right. That actually did come from the early nineties when I was born. And now it's actually decreased. Yay. 38 to 40% in fact, which although still high, it's decreased. So that's good. Unfortunately, there has been a decrease in marriage itself.

[4:05] It's 35 to 37% decrease in marriage itself and has moved more to a common law experience. We found more and more common law marriages that have happened over the last 30 years. So all that is to say, there's a lot of single people out there, a lot of single and single again people in our world, in our community, but also right here in church. Now, what actually struck me in my research was, and I'll say this, I'll share a bit of my story further on, but what struck me in my research was that I could find places for single people, but not quite what I was looking for. I found divorce care, which they have at this church, which is amazing. And I found singles mixers. So like, if you just wanna get out, if you wanna get out of singleness, here's where you go.

[4:53] But I couldn't find anything that would help me thrive in my singleness in this season of my life. So I was looking for somewhere that was created for me in the church community, something that was intentionally created for singles. And that was the gap or maybe tension that I was left with, as I tell my story here. So in 2019, I was dating a gorgeous man of God. He loved Jesus. I, as you know, loudly love Jesus. He was cute. I'm very cute, right? Say yeah. Say yeah. Right. And I genuinely believe that we were heading to the altar on New Year's Day.

[5:41] We broke up. I know. Uh-huh, we broke up. We realized that we wanted different lifestyles entirely. And so that was the end of our relationship. Now I did say 2019. So what follows 2019? I know, 2020. So I didn't know that when this relationship ended, the entire world was heading into deep isolation, great time actually to start a breakup. Healing is to hit rock bottom in the middle of a pandemic. And that's what happened to me. We broke up and I had to go through this breakup isolated, alone. Now that was New Year's Day. Four months later, I then turn 30. Now a lot of women out there are like, oh man, she had a bad, so break up, total isolation.

[6:26] And I'm turning 30 now in that season, I had to ask God a couple of questions. Why didn't it work? What was the point of this relationship? And hey God, I thought I'd be married by 30. As I was healing, as I was healing in those first four months and onwards from that, I realized something unsettling about my faith. There was a lie built into the bedrock of my faith and my belief system. I knew that God was good. I knew that He is the author and finisher of my faith. I would wear His name, Christian, proudly, and I will be married by 30. That was kind of how I always saw it.

[7:12] But it was kind of hidden in the bedrock there. God is good, author and finisher of my faith. I'm a Christian. Say it proud. I'm a Christian. I love Jesus and I'll be married by 30. So when I didn't get married by 30, it really shook my faith. So I spent the next year of my life doing what some might call a true crime investigation. I'm not joking you right now. If you looked at the wall of my bedroom, I actually had Post-it notes and I had strings connected to those Post-it notes with photographs of, I believe this. I don't know when I started believing that, this might shake my faith. Here's scriptures I've been standing on and in amongst there I put, "What do I do now?"

[7:57] "What do I do now?" Now you might be sitting in your seat thinking, "Really? Marriage is what shook her faith?" Yeah, you're thinking that too. That was literally a baby. You didn't hear it in the video, but baby was like, "Yeah, I'm wondering." And I get it, honey, I get it. You might say that maybe I made marriage an idol, but I didn't make marriage an idol. In fact, an idol is when you put something above God. But in fact, I was asking God a lot of questions. I went right to Him. In my experience, singleness was not encouraged in the church. That was my experience. I've been in church all my life. I left the church. I came back and had a beautiful homecoming.

[8:43] And when I arrived back, I realized, "Oh wait, I need to get married." The Apostle Paul talks about singleness as being a gift, and that's gonna be a passage we talk about later on. But that just wasn't my experience in church life. My experience in fact was that almost every sermon analogy I would hear would be about the ebbs and flows of married life. And when I would hear it, I'd be like, "Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. True, true. Got it, Pastor. Amen." But I didn't understand it. Never had any experience of it that every time I would go to a family movie night at church, I would realize it wasn't really church family. It was really moms and dads and kids. And I could sit at the table with those families.

[9:29] So I kind of felt like a kind of an extra part, a spare part in those scenarios. And then the times when I would finally get the confidence to go up to my married friend and say, "I'm having a really hard time in my singleness. Can you help generally?" And let me say it's something right now, they are so well-meaning when they say this. But generally I would hear, "Have you tried Christian Mingle?" And I'd be like, "Yeah, the user experience, not great." Then, "You've really gotta put yourself out there." Has anyone else heard that? I dunno what that means. Is it standing outside? I don't know. Just waiting. We don't really come. It does say, who finds a go? A wife finds a good thing. So maybe I'm supposed to stand there and be found. I'm not sure. But I would always hear, "Have you put yourself out there?"

[10:15] I'm like, I'm standing on a stage telling the world I'm single. I feel like I've done it. Everything. I started a podcast. Should I write a book? I'm not sure, but I would always hear, "You gotta put yourself out there." And then the last one, which always made me feel unfortunately about this more was, "You know, marriage is harder than you think." And I know what they mean. I know what they mean. My desire, my dream for marriage may sound to some like a fairytale, but I'm desiring something that God has placed in my heart. I'm desiring something that all throughout church we talk about and we love, but singleness was not encouraged in my church experience. And maybe you've experienced that as well.

[11:01] So I felt like in order for me to not feel small, in order for me to not feel like a spare part, in order for me to feel understood, I needed to get married. And that was built into my belief system. So that's why I love this passage specifically, because in it, it speaks directly to the unmarried. So we're gonna go right there right now at 1 Corinthians chapter 7, verse 1. We're gonna move all the way throughout it. I'll just let you know a bit of my message style. I do jump around in different translations, just 'cause I wanna make sure I get a full understanding of the scripture. But also some of you'll help you as well if you are like, "I'm an Amplified person, I like to yell it." I get that. You know, maybe you're an NLT and NIV, doesn't matter. But we're gonna jump in and out into different versions here, just so you're aware.

[11:48] So in 1 Corinthians chapter 7, verse 1, it says, "Now for the matters you wrote about," this is the Apostle Paul, "it is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman." Now to be clear, when he's talking about this, he's talking about sexual relations in the confines of marriage, right? So we can actually derive from that that he's referring to the unmarried. So I'm hearing, "It is good for a man to be unmarried." Really? Whoa. Now often when I would hear this scripture in church, we would skip right past it to get to the good stuff, the stuff that is good. Oh no, I did that. The married stuff, I would skip past it to hear that. But this is him actually referring to it being good to be unmarried. So I would camp there for a minute.

[12:36] How could it possibly be good? I would ask, what is the gift of singleness? What is the goodness in singleness? Because when I would ask my leaders, my mentors and things like that, often I would hear things that I'm sure a lot of you here, you know, "You should serve the kingdom of God. You should seek God, you should grow spiritually. You should pray without ceasing." And I'd be like, "Okay, let's take notes. Okay, what do you need? Okay, got it. Absolutely, absolutely." But you might be able to tell these aren't single strategies. These are Christian disciplines. These are things that we should all desire. These are gifts that we all get to experience. We all get the opportunity to seek God. We all get to grow spiritually.

[13:22] We all should be praying without ceasing. It's one of the greatest parts of being a Christian, is getting to talk directly to God because of what Jesus already did. So what do I do in my singleness specifically? How can I enjoy it? Oh my gosh, dare I say, enjoy my singleness. What is good in singleness? What does Paul actually mean when he says that here? Well, I skip down a little bit further to 1 Corinthians chapter 7, verses 6 to 7. And he says, "I say this as a concession, not a command, but I wish everyone was single just as I am." Oh, imagine this is a letter, right?

[14:10] And when it's being read, it's a mixed company. Like right now, it's literally, I was like, "Guys, Paul sent us a letter, let's read it," and I read it to you and half of you are married, more than half of you're married. And I'm like, "Oh, you know, I wish everyone was single." You'd be like, "What? Seriously?" He's saying singleness is a special gift. And he's saying marriage is a special gift. This is where he's actually explained to us that it's equal. I'd never heard that before. I had never heard that before. No one had ever kind of sat into the Scripture there and read it for me. Where he literally says, "Yet each person has a special gift from God of one kind or another," that it's equal.

[15:03] He's highlighting both in equal measure. I had never experienced it in that way before because often I felt in church community, and this is not a standing on a pulpit saying, "Church community needs to change." But it's more of a family discussion that I had always felt less than as an adult single Christian. That it wasn't until I got married that I would finally have people understand, that I would finally have people see me as God that already sees me. But here he's highlighting both in equal measure. But for me, I felt like, how can it be a gift when I desire marriage so deeply?

[15:51] Because for me, singleness feels like I'm lacking something. I'll say that again. Singleness felt like I was lacking something. Like I didn't get to have the thing I want. So for me, this is my waiting room. This is my punishment. How can this gift be good? And I've jumped a couple of verses here, but all throughout chapter 7, Paul goes back and forth to talk about marriage and the unmarried and marriage and the unmarried. And he never once speaks negatively on singleness. Now, verses 8 to 9 in The Message translation. Now I love this version 'cause it really stretches it out.

[16:40] He says, "I do though tell the unmarried and widows that singleness might well be the best thing for them, as it has been for me." Singleness might be the best thing for them as it has been for me. I'm still going, "Okay, Apostle Paul, I still don't know what's good about it. Like, I know that you said it's the best thing for the unmarried and for widows, but how," the next line says, actually, lemme read it from the beginning just to get how I read it the first time. You'll kind of be like, "I get her. She's like me." Here we go. I was like this. "I do though tell the unmarried and widows that singleness might well be the best thing for them, as it has been for me.

[17:27] But if they can't manage their desires and emotions, they should, by all means, go ahead and get married." That's how I read it. And I was like, "Wait, am I misreading something here?" And then further down here it says, I'm gonna skip actually to verse 9 in a different translation. "But if they don't have sufficient self-control, they should marry." Wow. "For it is better to marry than to burn with passion." Another translation says, "Better to marry than to be a flame with unratified desire." Now if you read this passage and you don't know much about the Apostle Paul, you don't know about the rest of Corinthians, I was gonna say Coronation Street. That's weird. Corinthians, and maybe you're new to coming to church and being a part of this family, you might be like, "He's making marriage sound like the consolation prize," which, what?

[18:23] Like, no way. But that's what it sounds like. But after reading it and reading it and reading it and reading it, I'm going, "Wait, he is trying desperately to explain to this audience that they have no idea how good this gift truly is." He may, you may say he's harping on it, but he's trying to clarify. "Let me tell you how good this gift really is. You have no idea." So the heart behind the whole passage is a little different than what it might sound like if you just read that verse. And when you know that marriage is holy, when you know that Paul, this apostle, loves marriage, when you know that Jesus loves marriage even though He was single too.

[19:15] Hey, when you know that the church loves marriage and when you know that Christ used the metaphor of the bridegroom and the bride, the bridegroom and the bride to describe the church and Christ, you then realize too that marriage is in fact incredibly special. But he is just trying to convey how deeply, how very good this gift really is. So then there's me who maybe you might call a little hardheaded. I'm like, "So why? What is so good about it?" Because it's kind of like a ramp up here. It's really, really good. It's really, really special. You are actually equal. You're each and every man and woman married or not is equal in marriage or singleness.

[20:05] But what makes it good? What makes it good? And I genuinely spent almost two years asking God every day, "What am I supposed to do now?" Because I always believed that by now I would've been married. So what could possibly be good about this season? In fact, I know I'll be married. I never met him, but I know I'll be married. Back then I wasn't so sure. So I was also living in a season of hopelessness 'cause I couldn't quite understand it, 'cause I'd never heard a message that said it quite like this. In verse 38, a little further down, we're gonna jump down and jump back up. Paul says, "The one who marries does well, but the one who does not marry does better."

[20:53] Better for what? I couldn't figure it out. And then I thought maybe he means ministry work. Right? A lot of times they say, "Okay, you're single. Maybe you can serve at church more. You know that that's something that you can do, 'cause that's what Paul was doing. He was doing ministry work. Maybe you can do more ministry work. You can be a part of growing the kingdom of God better if you don't marry." But I also saw both sides of that too. So the human in me is like, "I need to write some stuff down." Now, this is gonna sound, so this sounds so human, but I'm just gonna be real. I'm relatable here. I had to write down things that I got as a single person that married people didn't get. Okay? And you're gonna laugh, but this is the truth. This is what's in my diary. Okay? First one, I live alone, right?

[21:38] Cute little apartment in Ontario. And I wrote down, when I get home, my luxurious Greek yogurt that I've been saving is still there. Blessing, blessing. This is showing more about who I am here. I'm not sure why I'm confessing this to you, but it's important when I am invited to a dinner party by someone that I'm confident doesn't wash their hands, I could just decline. I don't have to go, I don't have to go home and be guilted by my husband who then says, "Meisha, hospitality is important part of Christianity. Do you know that the early church was done in houses? Hospitality is so important. You gotta be there." When I go home, I just go, "I don't want to go." And then I can hide and it's okay. My mom will even, like, call and be like, "It's fine, honey."

[22:26] She has a Jamaican accent. But essentially she says, "It's fine. You can stay home." Blessing, right? And the last one, and this is one I've heard from many wives, is that even though my husband will be this lovely man of God, he won't understand that my face cream is not to be used on your feet. I've heard that a lot. Husbands, eye contact, don't do that. Blessing, right? And I literally would write down in my diary all the things that was special about this season. I wrote about the fact that my schedule was mine. That if someone was to call me up and say, "Hey, you wanna do this?" I'm like, "Yeah, let's go." Whereas when I would call my married friends and I was like, "Let me check with the other one," which is how it's supposed to be, but I kind of got to do whatever I wanted in that moment.

[23:11] But that's what I am talking about. It is a blessing. What is Paul talking about? And this is where he finally mentions it, verses 32 to 35. And again, the Amplified version. He says, "I want you to be free from anxieties." And in other translations, he says, complications, distressing care, concerns of married life. The unmarried man or the single man is anxious about things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things. Now, when he says worldly, he doesn't mean sinful things. He means earthly responsibilities. How to please his wife. And his interests are divided, his interests are divided.

[23:58] And the unmarried or betrothed woman, that means virginal woman, is anxious about things of the Lord. How to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about what? Again, earthly responsibilities, how to please her husband. And here it is in verse 35: "I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord." I'll read that again. To secure your undivided devotion to the Lord. Paul explains that unmarried believers have a unique capacity. He's highlighting something here. Singleness.

[24:46] Whether a season or your calling offers undivided devotion. Now listen, when I say this, the gift of singleness is not extra time. It's not something you can monitor with time. Because a single mom who has a ton of kids doesn't have more time than you. She has less. A single person who is a full-time caregiver doesn't have more time than you, they have less. A single person who lives in a safe neighborhood, who wants to live in a safe neighborhood, may have to work 60 or 80 hours a week to afford to live in that neighborhood because they have that one income. They don't have more time than you, they have less. The gift of singleness is not time. The gift of singleness is undivided devotion.

[25:35] You single believer are not divided. Now let me go a little bit deeper into that word divided here, because I will be the last person to preach on marriage. I have zero authority in that area, but I got the Scripture. So I'm gonna read about the very first one, the very first marriage in Scripture because it's helpful to understand that, to understand what he means here by undivided. So it's Genesis 2:21-24. As you heard earlier, I did kids' ministry for a long time, so I get a bit dramatic during this part. So just bear with me. So the Lord caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the opening. Oh, I guess it's down here. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib and He brought her to the man.

[26:25] Then he said, right, that was Aretha Franklin. But also he said that this one is bone from my bone and flesh from my flesh. She will be called woman because she was taken from a man. This explains, this is the final verse here. This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife. And the two are united into one flesh. The two are united into one flesh. That is the beauty of marriage. When you are married, you are connected to that person. Your soul is tied to that person. There is a covenant that is connecting and holding you to your spouse.

[27:11] That is the beauty of it. It's you, your spouse, and God. When you are single, it is you and it is God. It's not even your future spouse. It's not your boyfriend or your girlfriend or your fiancé. It's you and it's God. It is undivided devotion. And I'm not talking about undivided attention. Everyone in the family of God gets to have undivided attention with the God of the universe. Amen? Every one of us gets to talk directly to the God of the universe. Amen. But this is undivided devotion.

[28:02] I wanna share a bit of my own story in this moment. There was a couple years after I'd gone through the breakup. The breakup I'd healed from, but I was still having a hard time in church community and things like that. And I was invited to a wedding. It was a black tie wedding. And I was like, "I'm gonna go all out." I got a giant blue ball gown. I was like, I rented it, relax, rented this giant ball gown. And I was like, "I'm gonna go to this wedding." And I'm waiting in my apartment. I had a little studio apartment in downtown Toronto and I said, "Okay, I'm gonna do it." But the entire week leading up to this wedding, I did not want to go. I was like, "I can't stand being the one, the person in the wedding who doesn't know anyone and is single and I don't have a plus one." So I'm just stressed out. My head was just banging all week leading up to it. And a friend of mine who was the groom is the one that invited me.

[28:48] So I didn't know anyone. Plus it was only the groom who I knew. So there was just no one to talk to. And I was just stressing out the entire time. When the night came, I put on my dress and, friends, it didn't zip up. Every rom-com you watch, all you gotta do when your dress doesn't zip up, you go, "Hey babe, can you, like, zip me up?" And I was by myself. So I just started weeping. I'm like, "Really, Lord, what do I do now? What do I do now? I don't wanna go. I'm all dressed up. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna be brave. I'm gonna, you know, lean on You, Lord. I'm gonna go to this thing." And then when the dress doesn't zip up, I'm just like, "Come on, what is the point of this?" So I end up deciding, I'm gonna go and look outside in the hallway and see if there's any woman who can help zip up my dress. And imagine this.

[29:34] Okay? I'm in a giant ball gown. I'm almost six foot tall. I'm wearing heels. So I'm six foot one. I'm standing there, like, looking for someone to help zip up the back of my dress. And I see this girl walk by. And she goes, "Wow, you look gorgeous." Which made me feel so good. And I was like, "Can you zip up the back of my dress?" She's like, "Absolutely, girl." She zips it up. I walk back inside, I'm like, "Okay, maybe I can do this." I say another prayer. I leave. I get to the wedding. I'm panicking, panicking, panicking. I don't want to be there. I'm praying. "Ceaselessly" is that word, ceaselessly. I'm praying without ceasing, constantly, all the way through. I walk into the wedding, I see the bride, I see the groom, I head to the dance floor. And in that moment, not audibly, but an impression on my heart is made that I am living in answered prayer, because I had prayed for that wedding day to happen for that friend.

[30:25] We had been in small groups for years when we prayed for his wife. And there she was, standing there in her white dress, and there he was with his bow tie. So I had leaned, I had stressed out all week, all of these anxieties heading up to it, asking God, "Okay, what about this, Lord? What about that?" I didn't have anyone to share it with. There was no one at home to talk to. Even when I shared it with my friends, they didn't quite get it. I was talking to God constantly. He was the only one who understood it. He was the only one who got it. He's all I had. So when I finally walk in there and I have that moment of, "Oh my goodness, I'm in answered prayer." My headache starts to, like, dissipate and I'm starting to experience a great joy in that moment. "Wow, God." And in that moment I'm like, "You know, I'm gonna head to the dance floor."

[31:14] I have one of the greatest nights. And in fact, when I left that event, I was actually obviously wearing the ball gown. They handed out, like, poutine. I took a photo of myself just to remind myself how far God had brought me, 'cause I was supposed to be there that day. There was no man or woman or woman on the planet that encouraged me in that moment the way I needed it. But when I spoke to God and He spoke to me in that moment, it was like this private moment I had with Him on that dance floor: "You are living in answered prayer." That was so important, so special, so monumental. What a shift in the way that I saw my single life. After that, we single believers get to experience undivided devotion.

[32:04] So as I wrap up today, I do wanna say a couple things. I know you said, "Oh, I really appreciate that too." That's so sweet. Oh my gosh. As I wrap up today, I do wanna mention a couple of things. And this is specifically around, as I said, this is more of a family conversation and the family of God. Often for a single adult, it feels like you don't get to be a fully fledged member of the community until you, quote unquote, graduate. And the graduation sounds like marriage. When you get married, then you get to be a part of it all. And I felt that in a big way. But if you are listening at all, and if there's anything you remember, I want to remind you that the only graduation we get in the eyes of God is from sinner to saved.

[32:52] God does not look at you as someone who is lacking. He looks at you as His son or daughter. You are not something God forgot to do. He didn't forget to marry you off. Even though I have felt like that before. Your singleness is not a punishment. It's not evidence of God's neglect. It is a gift. And in fact, it's not a gift that everyone enjoys. And by that I mean it's not a gift that anyone, everyone steps into and says, "I'm gonna look for what God has in this season." But if you ask and you seek and you knock, God will reveal.

[33:41] And for me, that's what changed my whole life. Hmm. Asking God to reveal to me what it is. In this season, I had undivided devotion. I can't speak from the other side. I've never been married before. I can't say what it feels like, but what I've got right now, oh my gosh, I wouldn't trade it for the world. I'm so grateful for the intimacy I've gotten to receive, even moments of lying on my couch and weeping, "Lord, when will it be? When will it be?" And God reminding me, "Right now, it's me and you. This is everything." There is no lack between me and my relationship with God. It is fully fulfilled. One of the greatest pieces of wisdom I have received in my walk is knowing beyond doubt, married or not, that I'm deeply loved and cherished, as you are, by the God of the universe.

[34:38] Let's pray. Father God, we thank You so much that we get to read Your Word and You are so present in it. Father, continue to reveal Yourself to us throughout the rest of today. Father God, I pray, Lord God, as we lift Your name up in worship, as we glorify Father God, that You'll receive it as a beautiful praise. In Jesus' name we pray and everyone at Tidal Church said, "Amen."