Nancy Damas Wargamuth asks an important question.

Do you know how to take the word of God and apply it to your season of life, to your circumstances of life, to your marriage, to that particular child for whom no

textbook was ever written do you know how to take God's word and use it to deal

with that's

with Nancy De Moss Walghe, author of Inc comparable.

For January 25, 2024, I'm Danna Gresh.

Virtue.

Virtue. Does that word sound boring? Biblical writers used it to describe something strong dynamic.

Nancy Demas Waldemuth will explain as she continues in the series adding to your faith.

I talked with a young woman some months ago who had come to talk to me about a recurring

cycle of sin and failure in her life and she was wanting some help in that area and she said you know I

sin I get caught I confess I change I grow and then I fall back into the same pattern the same cycle and she was

discouraged over this as I would be and as I have been in those areas of my own life where I see those patterns, you know,

you think you've dealt with it and then there you see it happening again and I said to her and I want to say to you,

this is going to be a battle.

You have years of patterns, wrong patterns, wrong thinking, wrong responses, handling issues the wrong way, sin. Years of

sinful patterns that you've established in your life and you're not

going to change those overnight in terms of long-term deep change. And I said to her, that's why you need

to be diligent to be adding on to your faith. These seven qualities

we're talking about in second Peter. There are no shortcuts. It will not be

easy. I said that to her on the first go round there. I just wanted to tell her from the outset what the objective

you want to get to to be a pure young woman. It's a woman in her early 20s said it will not happen

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