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Nancy DeMas Walgamoose says resting in God's rule is ultimately a matter of faith.

Is it really true that all things must work together for my salvation? At the end

of the day, the question is, when everything I can see and sense and feel and experience tells me that

God's word is not true, will I choose to believe my emotions and my thoughts,

or will I choose to believe what God has said is true?

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgamuth, author of Choosing Gratitude.

For August 24th, 2022 of Choosing Gratitude.

For August 24th, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

All of us turn to something or someone for comfort, but there's only one true source of real comfort.

Here's Nancy, continuing in the series, Christ, our comfort in life and death. This week I sat in my living room one afternoon and talked with two single moms, both of whom

are walking through some really hard things with a child. One in particular

is in an extremely difficult situation. And listening to the story, I'm saying it's likely to

remain that way for a long time. There's no real light at the end of that tunnel, humanly speaking.

These are moms who have a strong relationship

with Christ. They know him, they love him, and his word, but they need comfort. And I shared with

them the section from the Heidelberg Catechism that we're looking at this week. We just talked for a

few minutes about comfort. Now, we tend to think of comfort as like an easy chair

or relief from pain but our english word comfort comes from two words cum and fortis with what is a

fortis fortify what's it make you think strength with strength comfort is no easy word it's no just sit down

and relax and don't have any problems or pain word it means with strength to strengthen to restore

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