In the sermon 'How To Be Content In A Season Of Waiting', the speaker shares their personal experience of finding contentment in their single season. They emphasize the importance of shifting one's mindset from waiting for something to happen to focusing on the present and being faithful to God with what they have. The speaker encourages believers not to feel like second-class citizens or without a purpose in the church but to seek God's plan for their lives during this season. They also share how their relationship with God grew stronger and more fruitful as they embraced their singleness, ultimately leading to a more fulfilling relationship when they eventually got married.

Okay, so one of the questions was how to be content in a season of waiting. And I think for me, one of the things that was most helpful was to try to shift from thinking of myself as being in a season of waiting, to seeing myself in a season where I'm not waiting for anything. God has given me all the pieces I need to be faithful right now. I am still praying that the Lord gives me different pieces later on, but I don't need to wait to get started serving the Lord or rejoicing in the Lord or living in abundant relationship within the body of Christ or any of these things. So trying to fully enter into what is this single season that God has put me in.

If it's not like just this pass-through season, but if it is a season in its own right that Paul talks about as being so important that he thinks believers can even like just choose to just stay there forever. You know if you think you can serve the Lord better there which a lot of women in history have, I think that helps I think that helps us to really just commit ourselves fully in that season to the Lord to be used as much as, you know, as much as He can and will use us. And I feel like that helps so much with, You know, there's some things about singleness that may be hard no matter what. Like if you're struggling with loneliness, you can pray for the Lord to take that away, but, you know, He may still use that as a thing to keep refining you and drawing you closer to Him. It may continue to be hard for the whole time that you're single, but I think there's other things that should not be hard about being single.

I think we should not feel like we have no purpose. I think we should not feel like we're second-class citizens in the church. I think we should not feel like God has forgotten us or is punishing us. I think we should not feel like, yeah, like we just, we have nothing to do until a man comes. These are not things that should be hard.

And I would say that if these things are hard in singleness, Be going to the Lord, asking Him to show you, Lord, I want to understand your purpose for why I'm here, and why you want me here, and what you want me to be doing while I'm here. And I feel like I can attest just from my own circumstances and my own story. Like I said, I never thought I would be the single woman for a long time and that definitely wouldn't have been what I chose, but the more I tried to commit it to the Lord and really rest in the fact that this clearly was his will and he clearly had a purpose for me to be here. The more exciting single-mas became and honestly girls it was better and better and better every single year. And the Lord was closer to me every single year and I had richer relationships around me every single year and by the time Reese came into my life I did not feel like I needed marriage to be happy or to be fruitful.

I was so happy and I felt like I could be happy doing this for the rest of my life. And then he came along and it was so clear that I could be more fruitful with him than by myself. But he even told me himself that it gave him so much confidence and reassurance that I wasn't interested in him because he was a ticket out of singleness. He said, oh, I know you're actually in this relationship with me because you want to be because I know you would have been fine. You would have been fine to stay single if I hadn't come along." So he said that actually made him feel very loved.

And I think too it makes me less afraid of, you know, what God might have in my future. Like what if something really hard like widowhood or barrenness or something like that is in my future? I feel like I've already experienced that God is with me and God is enough. God would take care of me and God's goodness would be all around me if I had to be without a husband again later in life. And so that makes these things so much less scary in some ways because I don't have to be afraid that God wouldn't be there and wouldn't be good.