How would you finish this sentence? Living according to God's word is like,

Nancy DeMoss Walgamu says your answer shouldn't include words like picnic or cake.

It's not a calling to comfort and convenience and self-fulfillment.

It's a calling to glorify God with the laying down of your life.

It will involve hardship, but we follow in the steps of a Savior who is willing to lay down his life so that we could live.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamut, author of Choosing Gratitude.

For July 3rd, 2019.

For the last couple of days, Nancy's been telling us the story of Esther and showing us insights from God's Word.

If you miss the first two days of this series, you can catch up at revive our hearts.com.

We heard how Esther's people were taken captive. In a foreign land, Esther was forcibly brought

into the king's harem and elevated to the position of queen. This wasn't a Cinderella kind of

story, but a very difficult situation. Then when the Jews were in danger of being annihilated,

Esther was called to speak up and be God's woman acting according to God's timing. Nancy will conclude this message, looking at another woman who knew she was called to serve the Lord for such a time as this.

Many of you're familiar with the story and the writings of Amy Carmichael, who in 1895 went

to India as a 28-year-old single woman. She stayed for the next 55 years without a furlough.

And when she got there, she discovered that there were children, infants, little girls, young women

who'd been taken captive and sold into prostitution in the Hindu temples.

Her heart was broken by what she saw, and she said,

someone has got to do something about this.

Well, God had brought Amy Carmichael into his kingdom for such a time as this.

And so one life at a time, she and her little band of co-workers began to rescue those children from the temples

in which they were held. It was dangerous work. It was difficult work. They had to withstand

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