In ministry, as in life, we need the right perspective. Here's Nancy DeMas Walgamuth.

Keeping our eyes fixed on eternity will sustain us through the trials here on earth.

When we're weary, when we're discouraged, keeping our eyes fixed on eternity will keep us

from dropping out of the race. As we remember that it's not

about us, we are merely servants who've been entrusted with a sacred stewardship.

Nancy shares takeaways from 20 years of ministry. Today on the Revive Our Hearts podcast, it's

December 28th, 2021, and I'm Dana Gresh.

Well, as I think back on yesterday's session, we had some tears flowing down cheeks of women in the room.

As we talked about Paul's teaching in 2 Corinthians on hardship, on affliction, on ministry, on the grace of God.

And I didn't mean to make anybody cry, but we have hard places in our lives. We have

hurting places, painful places in our lives. And some here shared out of their own journey.

And I love how God takes his word and ministers it as a balm, that's B-A-L-M, to our hurting and wounded hearts, and then makes us even more effective

ministers of the gospel as a result of what we've walked through. In these two days yesterday and

today, we're looking at the book of 2nd Corinthians, and I've pulled 20 takeaways from that book. There could have been

way more than that, but I chose 20 that really spoke to me as I think about the last 20 years

of Revive Our Hearts ministry. But these are points that apply not just to revive our hearts

and the ministry we have here, though I'm delighted we have some of our team,

Reviver Heart staff here in the room with us today. But wherever you're serving the Lord,

as a mom, as a grandmom, as a wife, as a widow, as a single mom, in the workplace, in your local church, wherever God has called you to serve him, I hope these takeaways will be encouraging to you. And if you missed

yesterday, go back to revive our hearts.com and you can get the transcript, you can get the list

of the first 10 takeaways on ministry from the book of 2nd Corinthians. So Lord, as we look at these

last 10 principles from 2nd Corinthians, we're going to move through

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