In this episode, I walk through Isaiah 32 — a chapter my Bible titles “Desolation is Foretold.” Desolation means alone… loneliness. But loneliness does not have to be our final outcome.

Isaiah 32 reveals a prophetic pattern: desolation, devastation — and then divine reversal. Everything changes at one word: until.

“Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high…”

I trace this pouring throughout Scripture — in Acts, where the Holy Spirit is poured out; in Matthew 25, where the virgins arise at the midnight cry; and in 2 Kings 4, where the widow pours the oil. Scripture confirms Scripture. The pouring turns everything around.

I talk about complacency — what it is, what it costs, and how easy it is to drift into it when marriage feels delayed. I share honestly about moments in my own journey when I felt so close to marriage, but it was almost like I missed it — like the door had been shut.

This is the cost of spiritual complacency.

But there is a shift.

When the Spirit is poured out, the rivers within begin to flow. And when the rivers flow, devastation turns. The wilderness ends.

Isaiah 32 doesn’t end in desolation — it ends in peaceable homes, secure dwellings, and covenant stability.

No more slumber.
No more complacency.
It’s time to arise.

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For years, I carried quiet questions in my heart: “Am I single because I made marriage an idol?” Maybe you’ve wondered the same thing.

In this raw and deeply scriptural episode, I share the journey few talk about — the wilderness of singleness, the silence of God, and the sting of watching others move into marriage even when they weren’t doing things “the right way.”

I revisit the familiar accusation that my desire for a husband was an idol, and then I share what changed everything for me: a fresh look at Ezekiel 20:16. This passage exposes what idolatry really is — not a longing in the heart, but a heart that goes after something in disobedience to God’s Word.

Through Scripture, personal testimony, and Holy Spirit clarity, I walk through:

• the difference between desire and idolatry
• what Ezekiel 20:16 actually teaches
• how Proverbs 23:7 connects thoughts to behavior
• why Deuteronomy 8:2 reframes the wilderness season
• how obedience proves your desire isn’t an idol

If you’ve remained single out of obedience, listened to the still small voice, turned down opportunities, or refused to force something you could have made happen — this episode is for you.

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In this episode, I talk about what it truly means to build—to frame, construct, and raise a life that God Himself can dwell in. The word “build” traces back to “dwell,” and that connection brought me into the book of Haggai, where God confronted His people for living in finished houses while His house lay in ruins.

I share how a statement from my pastor years ago shook me: a farmer doesn’t keep sowing seed into ground that never produces. At the time, I felt like the Word I was sowing into my life wasn’t yielding anything. But as I prayed, God led me to Haggai 1:8 and helped me see that the seeds He had me sowing weren’t producing quick fruit—they were producing trees. Lumber takes years to grow. Before you can build, the field must be prepared.

Scripture confirms this order:
“Prepare your fields… then build your house.” (Proverbs 24:27)
We see it again and again—first the field, then the building; first the foundation, then the house; first obedience, then the dwelling of God’s Spirit.

I walk through Jesus’ words about wise and foolish builders, Paul’s warnings in 1 Corinthians to take heed how we build, and the reminder that we are God’s house—His dwelling place. The real building project is internal: our character, our obedience, our foundation in Christ.

And only after God’s house in us is established can the outward house—our family, our marriage—be built with wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.

This episode is an invitation:
Break up the fallow ground.
Prepare the field.
Build yourself up in your most holy faith (Jude 1:20).
Let the Spirit of God dwell richly in the house you are.

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In this episode, I share a very real moment of sadness—one stirred by a weekend surrounded by reminders of what I’m still waiting for: marriage, family, companionship. After leaving a birthday gathering feeling discouraged, and then unexpectedly running into someone whose life had moved forward in all the ways mine hadn’t, I found myself sitting in that ache.

But the word “come” had already been on my heart. And the next day, when I saw that same word posted on a sign—“Jesus, come”—I knew I needed to return to Scripture. So I opened my Bible, studied the word come in Webster’s 1828 and in the Greek, considered its meanings (to go, to move toward, to arrive), and held them up against my own longing.

As I searched the Scriptures, I wrote down verse after verse where God uses the word come: Genesis 24, John 16, Matthew 25, the Song of Solomon, Ezekiel 37, Joel 2, Revelation 22. I imagined myself inside those passages. I saw Rebekah drawing water over and over, not knowing she was only a handful of draws away from being found. I saw the ten virgins tired and sleeping, yet waking when the cry at midnight declared, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh.” And I recognized my own sadness in their waiting.

But as I kept reading, the Holy Spirit encouraged me. I realized that the same word echoing through Scripture—come—was the same word the Spirit was speaking over my life. And by the end of the study, I was strengthened again to keep drawing from the well, like Rebekah, and to keep believing that my time has come.

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In the last episode, we talked about the Holy Spirit as the well of living water within every believer. In this episode, we continue that thread by looking at what Scripture teaches about prophecy — something directly tied to the Holy Spirit who now lives in us.

I walk through Acts 1–2, where the Holy Spirit was poured out, and how tongues and prophecy appeared together. From there, we look at what prophecy actually means in the Greek: to speak by inspiration, to declare things to come, to reveal something before it happens. Scripture tells us that when we pray in tongues, we speak to God — and that we can ask Him for the interpretation, turning our tongues into prophecy (1 Corinthians 14:4–5).

We then trace the pattern throughout the Bible: prophecy preserved Israel (Hosea 12:13), advanced God’s people (Ezra 6:14), transformed Saul (1 Samuel 10:6), and revealed God’s plans (Amos 3:7). Today, God still reveals by His Spirit — not through human will, but through inspiration (2 Peter 1:21).

I share how I unknowingly began practicing this years ago: praying in tongues during moments of fear, waiting for a single word from God, and speaking only what He said. One of the first times this happened was when my jaw locked and God sent me Psalm 81:10 — “Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.” That one word became a healing balm.

This episode is an invitation to desire tongues — but even more, to desire prophecy. To speak as the Holy Spirit inspires. To declare the word He gives “in due season.” To become, as Scripture says, the prophets of our own lives — especially in the areas of marriage, purpose, and God’s plans for us.

Like Ezekiel, may we prophesy as we are commanded, and may God cause the bones (see Genesis 2:23) to come together — “bone to his bone.”

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In this episode, I walk through the pattern of Scripture where women met their future husbands at water wells. Rebekah met Abraham’s servant at a well. Rachel met Jacob at a well. Zipporah met Moses at a well. Even in the New Testament, we see a woman at a well in John 4—and the conversation turns to husbands.

But Jesus revealed something deeper: He wasn’t talking about physical water, but living water—a well within a person. A well that springs up. A well that flows. A well He identified as the Holy Spirit.

From there, I trace how this theme continues into Matthew 25, where ten virgins go out to meet the Bridegroom. All had lamps—the Word of God—but only five carried oil, a picture of the Holy Spirit. The same “outflowing” that Jesus described as rivers of living water is the same outflow the virgins used when they went forth to meet Him.

The pattern becomes clear:
Ancient women drew water from physical wells.
Today, believers draw from wells of living water within—through the Holy Spirit.

In this episode, I share how speaking in tongues is the Scriptural way we draw that living water out. Just as Rebekah drew faithfully and consistently until the moment she was found, we, too, draw with endurance and joy—trusting that as we keep drawing from the wells of salvation, we are being prepared for the moment God has appointed.

This is a call to keep drawing, keep praying, keep yielding to the Spirit—as the women of old did at the well—until the Bridegroom is encountered face to face.

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In this episode, I share how my understanding of “the one” shifted—not because of culture, opinion, or wishful thinking, but because of Scripture.

For years, I was told to choose: choose someone, choose anyone, because “that’s why God gave us free will.” I didn’t have Bible verses that said otherwise, so I never expressed my hope that there could be one—not multiple options, not endless soulmates, not thousands of potential matches on dating apps.

But recently, while reading Genesis 24:14, I saw something I had never noticed: the word appointed.

Abraham’s servant prayed for God to reveal the woman He had appointed for Isaac—set apart, decided, designated beforehand by God. One of the Hebrew meanings of appointed is “to decide,” which comes from a root meaning to cut off other options. In a world full of options—dating apps, swipes, algorithms, and endless choice—Scripture shows a very different pattern: God appoints.

As believers, we look to Jesus, who laid down His will for the Father’s will. Scripture calls us to do the same. Free will is real, but so is God’s plan—His will, His timing, His choosing.

In this episode, I talk about how Genesis 24, 2 Corinthians 11:2, and Jesus’ own words reshaped how I understand choice, surrender, and God-ordained appointment. And I share my hope: that we would cut off every option that isn’t His will and pray for God to reveal the one He has appointed.

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This opening episode marks the beginning of Appointed Time—a chapter rooted in Scripture that explores the seasons God uses to prepare His people for what He has promised.

In the Bible, the wilderness is not punishment. It is a place of separation, refinement, and encounter—where faith is tested, obedience is formed, and dependence on God is established. Long before fulfillment comes, God often leads His people into hidden places where He does His deepest work.

If you have followed God faithfully and still find yourself waiting, this episode reframes the wilderness—not as loss or delay, but as preparation.

“I will bring her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her.” — Hosea 2:14

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This episode marks an Ebenezer—a stone of remembrance.

Dalia is a podcast told in chapters, with each chapter representing a season of the journey God is writing. Between chapters, special Ebenezer episodes are set apart to pause, remember, and testify to the Lord’s faithfulness.

In this first Ebenezer, I share why the podcast has been rebranded from One Proposal to Dalia, and how One Proposal now stands as the first chapter of the story—marking the season that has led into Appointed Faith. This rebrand is a testimony—an acknowledgment of God’s help and direction along the way.

Before moving forward into the next chapter, we stop to remember.

Thus far hath the Lord helped me.

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Habakkuk 2:2 says "And the LORD answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets,
so he may run who reads it."

Listen to the Podcast to learn how I wrote the Vision of Marriage:

• I wrote the book “One Proposal – 60 day devotional while waiting on the on to marry”
• I started the One Proposal Podcast, where I explained and made plain the scriptures  I sought out of God’s book for answers
• I created scripture affirmations for the single woman that I sell on Etsy
• I created 3 short ebooks and selling them on Etsy (btw my shop is called itiswrittenbyDalia if you are inclined to check them out):
  1. 31 prayers while waiting on the one
  2. From single to married
  3. 30 prayers for my future husband

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