0008 Adam's Five Assignments

What actually makes someone ready for a relationship?

Is it chemistry?
 Consistency?
 Attraction?
 Shared faith?

Or… is there a deeper standard that most people have never been taught?

In this episode of the Passages Podcast, Brittany and Eric explore a powerful pattern hidden in Genesis 2—revealing five foundational assignments God gave to Adam before Eve was ever introduced.

And what they uncover may completely reshape how you view relationships.

Because according to Scripture, a relationship doesn’t begin with feelings…
 it begins with formation.

As Brittany and Eric walk through the passage step by step, they reveal that God established a clear order—one that prepares a man for relationship and gives a woman clarity on what to look for.

This isn’t about perfection.
 It’s about alignment with God’s design.

In this episode, Brittany and Eric explore five key areas that define readiness for relationship:

• Presence – A man who actively dwells in the presence of God, not just casually acknowledges Him
• Work – A life marked by purpose, direction, and responsibility—not aimlessness
• Cultivation – The ability to draw out value, encourage growth, and build up what’s been entrusted to him
• Protection – Covering what he leads with strength, awareness, and care—emotionally, spiritually, and physically
• Receiving the Word – Hearing from God, applying truth, and living under spiritual authority and accountability

Throughout the conversation, Brittany and Eric challenge some of the most common misconceptions about relationships today.

Because loneliness doesn’t equal readiness.
 Attraction doesn’t equal alignment.
 And potential doesn’t equal preparation.

They also address a reality many women quietly wrestle with:

Trying to pull someone into spiritual maturity instead of recognizing whether they’re already rooted in it.

This episode offers clarity, not confusion.

It shifts the focus from “How do I find the right person?”
to “What does God say a ready person actually looks like?”

Brittany and Eric also unpack:

• Why many relationships feel exhausting from the start
 • The danger of choosing based on emotion instead of discernment
 • What it means to be “washed with the Word” in a real, everyday relationship
 • Why protection without spiritual grounding can become harmful
 • The importance of accountability and spiritual covering in a relationship
 • How God’s design brings peace, clarity, and stability—not confusion

One of the most powerful truths in this conversation is simple, but confronting:

Just because someone wants a relationship…
 doesn’t mean they’re ready for one.

And just because you feel lonely…
 doesn’t mean it’s time.

Because God didn’t bring Eve to Adam until Adam was positioned, prepared, and aligned with his assignment.

If you’ve ever wondered:

“Am I choosing the right kind of person?”
 “Why do relationships feel so hard or confusing?”
 “How do I know if someone is truly ready?”

This episode will give you a biblical framework that brings both clarity and peace.

Because when relationships are built God’s way…
 they don’t start in chaos.

They start in order.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:22

Okay, so today we're gonna talk about a topic that everyone wants to talk about, always. It's about relationships. And before we dive into that topic, I want to ask you to quietly answer this to yourself. What do you believe makes someone ready for a relationship? Is it attraction? Maybe consistency. I like consistency myself, shared faith, chemistry, even as the world calls it, you know, you just feel this spark. Um, but here's the deeper question: What standards did the Lord establish when he brought a woman to his first son Adam? Because when we read the early chapters of Genesis, slowly and carefully we begin to see a remarkable pattern emerge. I was shocked when I saw this pattern, and you talked to me about it. But Eric, you know, in my women's group, one of the most common questions I hear is, How do I know if someone's actually ready for a relationship? So what are the elements that the Lord established starting in the Garden of Eden?

SPEAKER_01 1:20

Okay. Have you ever searched for a man in other places?

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Let's see, other places. You mean like clubs, online dating apps, bars? You mean is that what we're talking about?

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Well, I was just asking. I don't know. I know everybody's all holy and pure and church going folks, but uh I maybe you know some people that have been look looking in uh other dark corners. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Just the desperate search out here, Eric.

SPEAKER_01 1:47

Yeah, listen, let's be real. Uh people can be lonely, uh, they can feel frustrated, they can feel unprotected, they can feel um they just want some just want somebody close by.

SPEAKER_02 2:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

Someone they can count on. And it's very legitimate. But um the Lord understood that. And you know, in Jesus has a bride, her name is Ecclesia. It's it's uh it's a Greek word, it's it's his church. And he's described later on in the book of Ephesians how he how he cares for her. But let's go all the way back to the book of Genesis when this all started, and the Lord can has shown us a pattern. Once again, the name of our of our uh podcast is is patterns because we're passages rather. Name of our Adam, you'll cut that out. The name of our the name of our broad uh podcast is is passages because we look carefully uh at certain certain verses in the Bible to determine, okay, Lord, what did you have in mind? And I maintain if we can read that just slowly, carefully, deliberately, we can often draw out some tremendous education, some tremendous learning that we can then apply to our lives. That's what he says, get wisdom, God's way of looking at things, but then with all you're getting, get understanding, which is the application of that wisdom. And that's what in in modern times Jesus said makes us a disciple. If you know and keep my commands, know and keep my commands. Means apply them, mean to you know, implement them in your daily life. I I love it how clear these this stuff is. So but we gotta sometimes take our time, slow down, pump the brakes, and uh take a look at this. So the Lord uh did uh five things, five strategic ideas, assignments given to Adam uh before he ever brought that woman around. Okay, so the first thing was uh as you can see in in Genesis 2, um the Lord the Lord put the man into the Garden of Eden. Now, Eden is a complicated word in Hebrew. It's it refers to order, not a location, not a physical location. We can't find it on a map, but it signifies, shall we say, an open door between heaven and earth. So that there was everything that was spiritual in heaven was to be found on earth, and the earth was uh a colony of heaven. If we think about this with kingdom mentality, the earth was a colony, and Adam had a management contract to do some things. But the first thing is that a woman wants to see is that that man dwells in the presence of God. And unfortunately, there's too many women who are church going and they're active in their spiritual life, and they leave that and they go, as you just said, to the clubs, to the dating sites, and they want to drag a guy back out of there and make him all holy. And oops, that is that's exhausting. Okay, because that man will subtly re um resist that sometimes. He's not trying to be told what to do, what to believe. And so it can be so we want to start with a man that already dwells in the presence of God.

SPEAKER_00 5:24

Right.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Okay, I'll stop there and say, does that make sense?

SPEAKER_00 5:27

It does make sense when you talk about dwelling in the presence of God. So that was Genesis 2.15, when it says, Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and to keep it.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

Okay, let's let's that okay, you just hit on two more words. Notice how quickly we go past these words, to tend and to keep it. And then okay, so what? To tend and keep. Okay, but the these these words they were, they really do have have meaning. So he put them in the garden to to work it. He God has built value into everything. He he put um he put multiplicative value in into into this whole earth. It has the ability to to deliver 30, 60, 100 fold returns. That's that's the kingdom economics that uh Jesus talked about. Okay, so there's go ahead. Looks like you wanted to say something.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

I think it's important here to notice. So one, he's in the presence of God. So that's the first one. He's in the presence. But two, the presence kind of transfers over to work. So one of the most important things that I notice is that God didn't place Adam in his presence and leave him like aimless to wander around and be like, what do I do around here? He didn't just give him the atmosphere, he like he gave him an assignment because God's presence is never passive. When he's in your life, he's in there for a purpose and he produces purpose within us. And I think that's what it shows here that he put him in his presence, but then he told him, You're gonna do something while you're here.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

Yeah, he gave him a job, he gave him work to do. So the second thing I would encourage uh the women in your study group to do is to start with a man that dwells in the presence of God. He's got a relationship with the Lord. You know what the Lord told me today? You know what I learned today? I was reading a passage in the Bible today, and and that kind of of um of a man that's bubbling up scripture and spiritual relationships, that is uh that is should be encouraging to that woman that she that he is he is dwelling in the presence of God. And secondly, as you just said, uh he has work. He's not aimless, he's not he's not uh sitting up in his grandmother's basement playing video games all day. I'm I'm being a little funny here, but but uh that he he's not jumping from position to position. He has a purpose, he has an ambition, he's headed somewhere. Okay, he has work to do. And then you mention another word, to to tend it, right?

SPEAKER_00 8:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 8:12

Okay, and and so here so here we're talking about to cultivate, to to draw out the value in something. Man is is engineered to draw the value out of something, and he that's just that's not just uh in in terms of the the garden of the the uh the work that he's doing. He should have a motivation to cultivate his woman, because men have an image in their mind of what they're looking for in a woman, but it's just in his head. And okay, and what he he should do is not impose that on his woman, but to try to draw it out of her, okay, and to um if he doesn't necessarily think that the you know uh wardrobe she has is that great, well take her to Saxfifth Avenue and and buy her some clothes and put it on your credit card, mister. Okay, take care of her, cultivate her, okay? Um do the things necessary uh to draw the best out of her, to help her be encouraged and feel confident.

SPEAKER_00 9:13

It's almost okay. I I know that we're only a few steps in here, so we have he's gotta be in the presence of the Lord, he's gotta work, so he's gotta have a job, he's gonna start to cultivate, but it's almost when I get to the cultivate part that I kind of see a woman being given as a gift to kind of like protect and flower and and help them grow. And it is really just like cultivating land because you can go out and you can mow the grass, but there's a difference between mowing the grass and providing fertilizer and providing seed and aerating your yard, right? Like those are the yards that you see are cultivated and they're beautiful. And people are like, whoa, what did you do to your yard over there? And then there's people who just go mow their grass and are like, hey, I mowed my grass, so at least it's not, you know, up and up and atom, but it doesn't look beautiful like the ones that are cultivated. And that's what men are supposed to do to women, is they're supposed to be able to see the things. You know, if she's looking tired and worn down, ask the questions, say the thing. Do you what do you need? What can I find something that she might need? Something like that. I think that's where cultivation comes in. It's not a passive thing.

SPEAKER_01 10:28

Do you happen to have Ephesians 5 25? Uh at your fingertips. Okay, can you read that for us?

SPEAKER_00 10:35

It says, Husbands love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for her.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

Okay, just right there. Christ was sacrificial. In this case, he laid down his entire life. So a man can lay down his ambitions, his uh his direction, the things he wants to do in a sacrificial manner to to uh to provide for the needs of his woman. And a woman should be looking for to spot that. You know, does he is he if there's a bit of a conflict with uh with a schedule, is he sacrificial, does he rearrange things in order to take care of her? I'm not saying that's all the time, because that can be manipulative, but but uh he's so he's got a relationship with the Lord, he's working and he's cultivating both in his work and his the things that are assigned to him, but also with that woman. And so he's laying down his life for her, okay, willing to at least, or has a history of doing that. So um that that that's that's what Jesus did with in this passage you just read, uh Ephesians 5 25. And and to make her holy without blemish, okay. To he washed her with the water of the word. Okay. Because the world will uh tend to make us sinners or or make us unholy or make us to drag us down into into um awkward circumstances. But when that man says, No, let's let's do it this way, I think that that becomes a uh a wonderful example of and Jesus set the example for us, and we just need to imitate that.

SPEAKER_00 12:30

So I've heard you say this before, and I love you just kind of briefly went over it there. When it comes to spiritually cultivating women, I've heard you use the term wash her with the word. What does that mean?

SPEAKER_01 12:45

Oh sure. It would be um you could even be watching uh news on the TV. Uh you could be uh talking about an experience at work that day, and and the here here comes a what I call a vertex, a a uh a break in the road where you can go left or right, up or down. And here's a a chance for that man to report how he made a decision according to a Bible passage. I had this happen to me recently, where um someone made a request of me and I didn't think it was that appropriate. Uh it was a monetary request. And so I'd said, no, I'll pass. And suddenly I just felt um that this that I'd opened up a demonic passage because it was it was very risky. And the uh and the and a verse came to my mind, which was give to them that ask of you. And so I wrote a text back that said, on second thought, I'm going to comply with your request. And this individual wrote me a note, thank you. And I believe that I closed that door of attack because of pulling one verse out of the Bible that I had in memory, give to them that ask of you. And so what was I protecting? You know, a thousand dollars, what was I protecting? Um, my ego, you know, my my my rights. That's all stuff that we we got to be real careful of because that's so humanistic. And so the Lord is like, you think I can't replace that money? I can replace that money in a heartbeat. So this was just a test for me, and I reported that to my wife and to others, and I was I saw I have a team as well, but in terms of uh the relationship you're just talking about here, I washed my wife with the water of the word. I gave her an example of how one can make uh a decision, uh, even though you feel like you have rights and you have shouldn't have been asked, and there was no business being I didn't have I was not at fault here, but I saw an opportunity uh to reduce the risk of of of really I felt like it was a demonic attack on me that had opened up. And um so that's how I I I was able to wash her with the water of the word be by reporting what I had done in a in a t a test that that um arose. So hope that makes some sense to you.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

So when I think of wash her with the word and I think of cultivating, I think of kind of being like an encouragement, like coming through and seeing something negative happen in life or seeing her doubt her identity or or whatever she's dealing with in her life, and him being able to come through and essentially wash her with the word by speaking life into her, by pouring that over her as well.

SPEAKER_01 16:03

It's great. Good example. So uh can you maybe give me an example of something that may have happened or you've heard about from one of the ladies in the group?

SPEAKER_00 16:14

Well, I I guess I've always just kind of pictured it as like the perfect relationship would be if you're having a really bad day and you're just miserable and the house is a wreck and the kids are losing their minds, and he comes in and sees you and you realizing he's had a bad day as well. But instead of saying anything about the work or the house or the kids, it's hey, um, when you are weak, he is strong. Like you've got this, like in just pouring biblical verses over you in that moment to remind you who you are, remind you of your identity.

SPEAKER_01 16:47

Oh, thank you. That was great. I needed to hear that. Uh the other day, about a week or so ago, um we got a call at one o'clock in the morning, and my wife's son had uh was in a lot of distress uh in his intestines, and he didn't know what to do. He was just writhing in pain on the floor. And uh she ended up getting up and spending time with him on the call, and then later in the morning she mentioned uh that uh they were gonna call an ambulance and pick him up from where he was and take him to a hospital, and I just saw distress okay on her. And I happened to be a person of great faith. I I believe the Lord gave me a gift of faith, and I have a belief that one can borrow the faith from another person, just like you can borrow money or borrow borrow a cup of su of sugar. So I said to her, I've got abundant faith. Would it be okay if I offered it to you and and prayed for that? So she said, Yes. I didn't jam it on her, I just I just offered it. And so I I prayed at length, and I I offered um a piece that passes all understanding, which is biblical, and prayed for this faith. And so she received that, and she said it was extremely helpful for her uh that I would pray for her, which is wash her with the water of the word. And so that was an example of um of something that just happened recently. We need to be as men, we need to be on the lookout for opportunities, not to be all super spiritual and and not to s set up the home as a platform to lecture and and be be uh you know have a a podium for for um hold holding services every day. It's certainly you can do that with the family every so often if you want to. But this was um this was a specific moment like you just described, somebody having a bad day, and you come in, you notice that, be alert. Men should be alert. Like you just said, somebody's had a bad day and the kids are in chaos and the nothing's going right in the house, and there's been a lot of distress. Um so you know, you just want to be able to hold her hand and pray for her or hug her and speak peace to her. And uh I believe that that's very reassuring for a woman when she's in a relationship that that man is is providing protection. And so that's um in fact that's the that's the that's uh step four in this is the protection.

SPEAKER_00 19:30

Right, yes. So we're about to go into four. But so first was presence. So you want him to be in the presence of the Lord, you want him to how you would see that now would be speaking about him, hey, I heard this, hey, the Bible said this, hey, God told me this, to where you know that he is like bringing these things up. That's what I heard earlier. Work, so they need to have a job, need to be uh working, cultivate, so he's there to wash you in the word, to bring you up, to um essentially make you better than what you already are, is what I feel like I'm hearing.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

Bring the value out, all the hidden value. A lot of times, uh whether it's uh you know, his woman or his work or his um his home, there's a lot of hidden value in a man's job is to detect it and to draw it out and to bring it to a state of excellence, and what a reward that is when that occurs, and what a blessing it is to that woman as well.

SPEAKER_00 20:33

Right.

SPEAKER_01 20:33

So there you go. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

So then cultivating, but when God tells Adam to tend the garden, he pairs it with another word, and this is what you're going into. That other word is keep it, which means to guard it.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

Yes, he was instructed to cultivate and to keep. And so keep is means protect. And he's a man is simply, I'll just keep it real, a man is supposed to be the protector of uh of everything under his care. Um even physically, God gave man uh muscle mass and stronger bones uh to to physically protect um his woman, not to abuse, but to protect. Okay, and and so she should be able to see him and look at him as a in that role. And that's that's not subordination, uh, but that's that's protection. Okay, I think that's just a lovely, wonderful word, and we need to acknowledge that that's one of the five qualities that God gave to Adam before he ever brought Eve on the scene.

SPEAKER_00 21:37

You know, it seems like anything that God calls a man to grow, he also calls him to protect. So this cultivation without protection really leaves everything exposed. I I I visualize kind of thinking about raising your kids, and we're always trying to cultivate our kids, right? We're always trying to bring them up, put them in the right school zone, make sure they know the right information, help them with their homework, help them walk, help them talk, you know. You're cultivating that child to become what you want them to be in life. And cultivation without that protection, man, that would expose your children as it exposes your wife to everything if you're not cultivating them properly and protecting them.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

Yes. Well said. Well said.

SPEAKER_00 22:20

So we need to look for a man with a protective spirit. So someone who looks out for your needs, someone that you'd be comfortable guarding the house, watching over the finances and the children.

SPEAKER_01 22:30

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

That's a big task.

SPEAKER_01 22:33

Yes. And then lastly, he received a word from God. What was the word? The word was of every tree in the garden you may freely eat, except the tree that's in the midst of the garden, don't touch it. No, indeed, not to touch it, sorry. That was added. Don't eat it, because in that day you'll surely die. And what the Lord meant was you will spiritually die. And of course, fast forwarding later, um you know the the serpent deceived Eve. And so, my gosh, what a story that is. But but um he he but he never told the woman not to touch, God never told the woman not to touch the fruit or eat the fruit. Okay. It was up to Adam to instruct his his woman as to what God had said. So again, I don't make the rules, I'm just telling you what the what the Bible says. So there were five things, including this last thing, that the Lord spoke to Adam, an instruction. And it was up to him to hear it, and it was up to him to report it to Eve, and it was up to her to acknowledge it and to follow it. But she got pulled away, and she got somebody whispering in her ear, the serpent, and he lied to her. The way he manipulated the the truth, and then she went ahead and ate from the tree, and she seduced Adam into eating from the from the fruit as well. And of course, that's where things all went downhill. So, but nevertheless, um a woman sh needs to find um a man that that will be um that not only will follow these things, but I would I would suggest let's make sure back then uh Adam had God speaking to him and providing correction. But today we need to make sure also that men are in uh in submission to another man because that woman needs a court of appeal. She needs a place to go in case he's acting up or in case he drifts away or does something off that he's not supposed to. Where where do I turn is what she should say before there's any marriage or before there's any engagement, it's like, hey pal, where do I turn to whom do I turn?

SPEAKER_00 25:07

Right.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Um, if um if there's something going on that I don't feel like you're responding to me.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

Right. So they should have essentially an accountability, someone that's above them spiritually able to lead them to where if you have some big relationship issue and he's not going biblically that you're able to reach out to them.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

Yes. Very important. Again, not to complain. Not go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

Through through looking at these five things, you know, we'll go backward. Well, presence, work, cultivate, protect, and then receive the word. The biggest one that stands out to me is the protect. And I think a lot of times we look as women, we look for the protection, but protection alone isn't enough because a man can protect what he loves, but he can destroy what he leads if he's not anchored to God's voice. So I think a lot of times we look for that bad boy image, the one that's protective and there and strong and in charge. But if he's not placed in the garden, if he's not placed where he can be in the presence of God, he's going to use that protection in a very unsettling way.

SPEAKER_01 26:22

Yeah, that's good. It could be good. Well, that's you just touched on something. This this uh now where let's speak to the women. Um what should I do in order to do right in God's eyes? This is what she might ask. What would how can I contribute to the wholesomeness of this? Uh number one, allow a man to be vulnerable, because a lot most men, a huge percentage, do not feel safe around men or women. They feel they feel vulnerable. So they use all kinds of fig leaves to hide their fear. Uh they'll try to be super masculine, uh thinking that arrogance or building muscles in a gym or flaunting wealth will impress people. They become capable of earning money using their intelligence, seducing women, but these fig leaves will die out eventually. Okay, and it's it's um it's looks cool for a moment. And I'm I'm sorry, but it's it's uh women have to guard their hearts about this. Uh, because 2 Timothy 3.6 even speaks to this. For of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts. That's hardcore, 2 Timothy 3.6.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

That says, don't fall for the cute guy.

SPEAKER_01 27:50

Well, he might he might be cute, but just because he's a fast talker just uh is not uh now the other thing is she can help a man determine his authentic identity. Okay. Um so anyway, uh we don't want to have anybody upset with us just because we're offering these concepts. This is this is Bible. Okay, that's what we're trying to do is to is to determine um, you know, determine what did the Lord say now. As far as I'm concerned, people can yell at you, but not at me. You know, I don't I don't want.

SPEAKER_00 28:29

Oh, that's fine. I can take it. Well, so I think the one of the more interesting things then, so having to do with just how this is all laid out, God gives Adam all these responsibilities, calls him to cultivate, calls him to protect, but only then does scripture say one of the most important things, I think. And it's Genesis 2, 18. So we've gone through all these five assignments that Adam should do, and this verse says, and the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him. Why would he say that then at the end? What is the final thing here that brings everything together?

SPEAKER_01 29:10

Because he detected, the Lord detected that he had built, he had communicated all five of these qualities to Adam, but it's it's like, you know what? There's a chance at him being um alone. There needs to be a a cooperative individual to be with him, because um and I I guess I would even say to replicate mankind on the earth uh would be would be important. And it was just ingenious the way he the way he designed that and planned that. It's just uh I mean, you could I'm sure there are many books been written on this subject, but he he detected an absence uh in Adam. It wasn't enough for for man to have uh to be in God's presence and keeping and tending the garden. Uh it was it was just not enough. There was a need for a cooperative mate for him to be with. And and so and then here's the other thing. God will always speak to the one under authority before he'll speak to the one in authority. Servants obey your masters, children obey your parents, wives obey your husbands, and and it's it's because he's he's created an or an order of things, and he and again, that it's hard to hear that in modern society because most many men are just not following the guidelines. And so they're they have they they ought not to be followed. Okay, they ought somebody should should not be submitted to them uh rightfully so, because I mean you you've known for women in your women's group that have maybe followed the wrong man. You know, he's they've they've been um it's been uh inappropriate. But but um but the Lord knew what he was doing when he created this uh uh the man created a woman out of the one of his ribs and brought brought him to her, brought her to him, rather sorry, brought her to him, presented her, and said, This is this is this is your mate.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

So essentially what he's saying in this verse, when it says it is not good that man should be alone, that man is the one who has completed these five steps. Yes. So if you haven't, if you aren't in these five steps, you shouldn't even be looking for a woman. You should be working on yourself.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

Brilliant. There you go. Working on yourself. And that's that's another thing that, yes, well said that a man should be uh to be evaluating himself. And so a woman could kindly even say, Listen, you know, you're closed, but no s no cigar. Okay, there's a um, you know, I would recommend the following. How about we engage in a in a Bible study and and and pray about these things that are present and the things that are absent. And I that that there's no harm in that. But again, she doesn't want to be dragging this guy in and and trying to lead him to a spiritual sense of spiritual maturity. You know, that's let the Lord do that for on his behalf.

SPEAKER_00 32:40

Right. So loneliness doesn't mean we're ready for a relationship just because we're lonely?

SPEAKER_01 32:45

No. It's you know, my heart goes out to them, but just stay patient and wait upon the Lord and He will He will provide that you know, that's that's um and that may take a little while.

unknown 33:04

Right.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

But the Lord will bring the right person uh to to find you.

SPEAKER_00 33:08

So today with Genesis chapter two, this doesn't only define what men are to become, it really reshapes women's thinking and what we need to be discerning on our end because we need to see that he's in the presence. We need to see that he has a job and that he's stable, that he's able and willing to cultivate us, that he's able to protect and wash us in the word and receive the word when it comes along. And I feel like those things will give you such peace that you'll know you're in the right place because that's what God will bring. And the chaos and the questions are not going to be there.

SPEAKER_01 33:44

Amen. Well said. Well said.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

I love it. Thank you for sharing Genesis 2 with us today and trying to help us figure out what relationships are about, who men should be becoming, who we should be looking for, and how all of this is really for God to build a covenant in our lives and for it to be what He's called it to be.

SPEAKER_01 34:05

Amen. Well, and see you next time.