This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For May 5th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

When Rachel Barky was diagnosed with terminal cancer, it gave her an important perspective.

In his providence, God has used the tough things in my life to draw me closer to him,

to show me his great love and to teach me many things.

I have learned that I am not perfect, and I have the scars to prove it, 13 of them.

And they serve as a physical reminder of a spiritual reality that I can never be perfect on my own.

I need a savior.

Proverbs 31 tells us that a wise woman is clothed with strength and dignity,

and that she smiles at the future. I thought of that verse when I first listened to a moving message by

Rachel Barkie, a woman who feared the Lord, who smiled at a future that would have caused many other women

to give in to despair. If you missed part one of Rachel's message yesterday, please be sure

and visit Revive Our Hearts.com where you can listen to that program, or find it on the

Revive Our Hearts app. Rachel delivered this message in March of 2009. She had just been told

that she had only weeks to live. She was on 14 medications and was only strong enough to be out of bed

for a few hours each day. In the part of the message we heard yesterday, Rachel talked about

the importance of knowing God

and knowing yourself if you're going to be able to face the future with confidence.

In the second half of her message, Rachel talked about two more things we've got to know

if we're going to be able to smile at the future.

I think this is so key in a time like what we've been living through in the past

several weeks, days full of uncertainty. How can we smile at the future? Well, let's listen

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