Gods Loving Words That Every Single Woman Needs to Successfully Navigate The Single Season

I'm passionate about supporting singles during their "single season" because I am aware of how incredibly beautiful, but also challenging, the season can be. Singles are often consistently reminded to "Embrace" being single and all of the benefits that come with it. We are reminded to be happy for our financial freedom as we are not required to discuss our finances with a spouse or support a family. We are reminded to enjoy our free time that allows us to focus on ourselves, travel, advance in careers, explore hobbies and simply do with our time what we would like. While all of these and more are true, it's unfortunate that when singles attempt to share their challenges, they are quickly reminded to "Embrace" without allowing room to be transparent in the other parts that also come with it. Just as it's a blessing to have freedom to do what you would like financially, it can also be incredibly stressful and overwhelming to be your sole decision maker, handling all of your financial responsibilities. It's absolutely a blessing to have the freedom to do what you please with your time, but there are also instances where loneliness and the desire for companionship painfully seeps in. When you are a single person that does not have additional support then you find yourself with the various hats of being your sole financial support, cheerleader, caretaker, emotional support, decision maker and so many other titles. Being single is so much deeper than your relationship status. You are literally a single person caring for yourself day in and day out, which is not always as easy as it seems. Even if you have a plethora of family and friends, you may still feel overwhelmed with all that comes with being responsible for yourself. The good thing is that even the most single person is never truly alone. God is an ever present companion, and has blessed us with a wealth of reassuring words to guide during the single season.

And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.

(Philippians 4:19 NIV)

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

(Matthew 11:28-30 NIV)

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever

(John 14:16 NIV)

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

(John 15:15 NIV)

The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”

(Zephaniah 3:17 NIV)

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

(Psalm 34:18 ESV)

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” (Genesis 2:18 NIV)

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 NIV)

There’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, “The two become one.” Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever—the kind of sex that can never “become one.” There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for “becoming one” with another. Or didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body.

(1 Corinthians 6:18 MSG)

For this is the will of God, that you be sanctified [separated and set apart from sin]: that you abstain and back away from sexual immorality;

(1 Thessalonians 4:3 AMP)

Run away from youthful lusts—pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those [believers] who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

(2 Timothy 2:22 AMP)

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

(James 1:5 ESV)

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

(John 14:18 ESV)

God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and them not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

(Numbers 23:18 NIV)

With your very own hands you formed me; now breathe your wisdom over me so I can understand you. When they see me waiting, expecting your Word, those who fear you will take heart and be glad. I can see now, God, that your decisions are right; your testing has taught me what’s true and right. Oh, love me—and right now!—hold me tight! just the way you promised. Now comfort me so I can live, really live; your revelation is the tune I dance to. Let the fast-talking tricksters be exposed as frauds; they tried to sell me a bill of goods, but I kept my mind fixed on your counsel. Let those who fear you turn to me for evidence of your wise guidance. And let me live whole and holy, soul and body, so I can always walk with my head held high.

(Psalm 119:76 MSG)

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.

(Psalm 139:13-14 MSG)

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

(1 John 4:16 NIV)

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

(John 15:13 NIV)

I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs—how he can please the Lord.  But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife— and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord’s affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband.  I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.

(1 Corinthians 7:32-35 NIV)

Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.

(1 Corinthians 7:8 NIV)

Don’t become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That’s not partnership; that’s war. Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands? Who would think of setting up pagan idols in God’s holy Temple? But that is exactly what we are, each of us a temple in whom God lives. God himself put it this way:

“I’ll live in them, move into them; I’ll be their God and they’ll be my people. So leave the corruption and compromise; leave it for good,” says God. “Don’t link up with those who will pollute you. I want you all for myself. I’ll be a Father to you; you’ll be sons and daughters to me.” The Word of the Master, God.

(2 Corinthians 6:14-18 MSG)

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

(1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV)

And friends, once that’s taken care of and we’re no longer accusing or condemning ourselves, we’re bold and free before God! We’re able to stretch our hands out and receive what we asked for because we’re doing what he said, doing what pleases him. Again, this is God’s command: to believe in his personally named Son, Jesus Christ. He told us to love each other, in line with the original command. As we keep his commands, we live deeply and surely in him, and he lives in us. And this is how we experience his deep and abiding presence in us: by the Spirit he gave us.

(1 John 3:22-24 MSG)

Delight yourself in the Lord, And He will give you the desires and petitions of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; Trust in Him also and He will do it.

(Psalm 37:4-5 AMP)

A man’s mind plans his way [as he journeys through life], But the Lord directs his steps and establishes them.

(Proverbs 16:9 AMP)

How can a young person live a clean life? By carefully reading the map of your Word. I’m single-minded in pursuit of you; don’t let me miss the road signs you’ve posted. I’ve banked your promises in the vault of my heart so I won’t sin myself bankrupt. Be blessed, God; train me in your ways of wise living. I’ll transfer to my lips all the counsel that comes from your mouth; I delight far more in what you tell me about living than in gathering a pile of riches. I ponder every morsel of wisdom from you, I attentively watch how you’ve done it. I relish everything you’ve told me of life, I won’t forget a word of it.

(Psalm 119:9-16 MSG)

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

(Matthew 6:33 NIV)

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

(Romans 12:2 MSG)

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

(1 Thessalonians 5:18 NIV)

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,which God prepared in advance for us to do.

(Ephesians 2:10 NIV)

“If any of you wants to serve me, then follow me. Then you’ll be where I am, ready to serve at a moment’s notice. The Father will honor and reward anyone who serves me.

(John 12:26 MSG)

Everything in the world is about to be wrapped up, so take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything. Be quick to give a meal to the hungry, a bed to the homeless—cheerfully. Be generous with the different things God gave you, passing them around so all get in on it: if words, let it be God’s words; if help, let it be God’s hearty help. That way, God’s bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, and he’ll get all the credit as the One mighty in everything—encores to the end of time. Oh, yes!

(1 Peter 4:10 MSG)

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see.

(Hebrews 11:1 GNT)

“Have faith in God,” Jesus answered.  “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.  Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

(Mark 11:22-24 NIV)