Is your life a miracle? Here are Ray and Ann Ortland.

I don't want a life that explainable by personality or by some other gifts.

Yeah, yeah. It'd be a hot shot or something, but rather by God. That takes miracle.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Thursday, January 3rd.

Here's Nancy.

Well, I can't think of any better way to start a new year on revive our hearts

than to talk about revival the very word revival means to bring back to life it makes me think of a

new beginning a fresh start and I know that's what many of us are hoping for in 2008.

Over the next few days, we want to share with you a series that we aired several years ago.

And it's a conversation that I had with Ray and Anne Ortland.

Pastor Ray was my pastor when I was in college and attending the Lake Avenue Church in

Pasadena, California.

In addition to being a pastor, Ray hosted a daily radio program for many years,

and he and his wife, Anne, have written many books.

They've spoken for years on the subject of revival.

But beyond all of that, they have been special friends in my life.

In fact, a little over a year ago, when I was

facing some challenges in my life and ministry, I went to Southern California and sat down

with Ray and Ann and just asked them for some godly wisdom and counsel. And I was so grateful

for the encouragement they gave me that day. And then I remember several months later how they wrote

to me and said, we've been praying for you. How are you doing? Well, several months ago,

we received the word that Ray, who had pulmonary fibrosis, had gone home to be with the Lord.

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