When God allows something difficult in your life, you could look at it as his gift to you.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

If our way is perverse before God, what a mercy it is when God sets out to oppose us in that way.

Isn't that what we need?

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoo,

author of Holiness, The Heart God Purifies. For July 25th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh. Have you heard the Bible story about the talking donkey?

If God can speak that way, what wonders might he have for your life?

We'll explore that as Nancy continues this series, blessings and curses.

A look at the life of Balam. We're on day four of this

seven-part series. Well, today we get to the part of the story of Balam that everybody's familiar with,

if they're familiar with any part of it. It's about the talking donkey, right? And just for those who

may not have been with us the last few sessions, you can go back and get it all at

revive our hearts.com. But you remember that Balak, the king of Moab, wants to curse the Israelites

to diminish them, to diminish the threat, the possibility of their coming and taking over

Moab, which they were not going to do anyway. But Balakik doesn't know that. So he sends to Baylam.

The names are easy to confuse.

Balam was a false prophet, the New Testament tells us,

who lived about 400 miles north of Moab in Mesopotamia near the Euphrates River.

He was a soothsayer.

He was a sorcerer, and he had a reputation for being

able to do magical incantations and to verbalize curses that would actually harm, inflict damage

or harm on people. So, Balaam asks the Lord, shall I go? And God says, what? No, don't go. Don't curse these people because I have blessed

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