Nancy Lee DeMoss remind you there are no chance occurrences.

God is orchestrating the pieces and God is weaving the story through the providential

orchestration of circumstances.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, November 2nd, 2015.

Thank you. for Monday, November 2, 2015.

Last week, we looked at a biblical story of a woman who went through a roller coaster of life experiences.

She was miraculously given a son, but then he died. He was raised to life, but then a new tragedy struck, and she lost her home. Do you ever feel like your life is that way?

Nancy is going to help us deal with those ups and downs in the final part of the series, A Breath of New Life.

As I've been preparing this series on the Shunamite woman, I've found myself in conversations

with a number of women who are in seasons of life that they had not expected, that have

maybe caught them off guard, and in many cases that are really difficult.

I was in a story the other day, and just talking with the lady behind the counter and another woman who was in the shop, and we were just chatting and having a great conversation.

Then the one lady left, and the woman behind the counter said to me,

that woman's going through a really difficult time.

Her husband has Lou Gehrig's

disease and as she described it it sounds like he's in maybe the final stages of that

disease. I would have never known it by talking to the woman. She seemed so chipper and

didn't seem like she was somebody who was bearing the weight of the world on her shoulders,

but it turns out she is. She's in a difficult season of life. And I was able, by the way, I had one of my devotional books, The Quiet Place in my car, and I said to the woman behind the counter, do you think if I would sign one of these for her and let her know that I'm praying for her, that that would be okay? And she said, I know that would mean a lot to her. So just an opportunity

maybe, I haven't seen the woman again, but to minister into her life in a really difficult season.

I had another woman tell me recently about, she said, my husband's job is changing, and he's in

his 60s now. He hasn't lost his job, but the way he's going

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