Nancy DeMas-Walgamuth is sometimes tempted by this thought.

I just can't get these emotions under control.

I just can't think right.

But even that is thinking wrong.

Because the fact is by God's grace, I can think right.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgall. Author of Lies, Women Believe,

and the truth that sets them free. For July 10th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh. I think everybody is tempted by rogue emotions from time to time.

And during a question and answer session with a group of women, Nancy provided some valuable

perspective on bringing emotions under the control of God's spirit.

Well, here's some of that helpful perspective today.

It's part of a month-long emphasis

on conversations that are relevant to our everyday lives. As the session began, someone asked

Nancy about some of the greatest challenges she faces. Business, but I find almost everybody I meet,

almost every woman I know, in almost every season of life.

Technology was supposed to help us be able to, you know, they said decades ago, they said that by now, people, we would have this three-day work week and people would have all this leisure time.

We're running around like chickens with their heads cut off, panting, can't catch

our breath, don't have time for relationships. You know, you drive in your garage at night,

you don't see your neighbors, you don't. I think technology with all its blessings has also

created some challenges that if we don't control it, it controls us. And I find I often am controlled by

technology. Not that I'm any great technology person, but our lives are so tethered to it today.

How many of us really have Sabbaths from noise, from activity, from the frenetic pace. I try to do computer-free Sundays. I want to be

careful as I say that because I don't always do that. But I really do try to have most, if not

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