We all know what it feels like to be burdened beneath the weight of our sin.

The psalmist experienced that too, and Dana Gresh has some encouragement for us today, straight from Psalm 130.

More than watchmen wait for the morning. Put your hope in the Lord, for in the Lord is unfailing love, and with him is full redemption.

Amen. I love this truth-speaking friend of mine. You're listening to Revive Our Hearts for

Friday, November 7th. I'm Nancy DeMoss-Wogmuth. Last month at True Woman 25, Dana Gresh gave a powerful message about finding daily mercy in God's

Word.

This first became a reality in Dana's life when she was feeling trapped by shame over past

sin.

Wherever you may be in your spiritual journey today, I'm eager for you to hear how God

used his word to minister grace to Dana at that point of her life and every day since.

Here's Dana.

I want to ask you a question.

Do you have a daily quiet time in God's word? Do you read it every day?

Is it the rhythm of your life? Yeah, some of you're like, yeah. And some of you're like,

oh, do I have to? And that is a good question. Do I have to? I want to share with you a time in my life where the Lord

convicted me as a young adult woman in my 20s that it was an essential life skill for me.

Now, the Lord did this in my life at a time when I was just really weighed down by the weight and the shame of my sin. There were some sins in my life

that I would go to the Lord almost every day and say, Lord, forgive me. And these were sins I had

committed years ago. Have you been there? Maybe some of you are there today.

The psalmist, the writer of 130, found a prescription for that, and I discovered it one day when I was listening to a worship album. And in the middle of the song, I heard a woman's voice read Psalm 130. It began, if you, oh Lord, kept a record of sins,

who could stand? What? There's someone other than me that feels that weight? Yes, the writer of Psalm 130 felt that weight. And he found a prescription

for the pain and the shame. And we're going to look at that today. But he also found two

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