When Isaiah foretold the birth of Jesus, he prophesied that Christ would be called the Prince of Peace.

Here's Barbara Rainey.

I think that's very significant.

And I think it's because God knows how desperately we need peace.

He knows far better than we do, how broken we are, how desperate we are, how lonely we are, and how much we need his peace.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of The Wonder of

His Name. For November 19th, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

I want to ask you something.

Where do you search for peace?

I mean, as we approach the holidays,

I once thought the perfectly decorated house

was the key to feeling the Christmas piece,

so I'd stress myself like crazy in one weekend,

decorating like my life depended on it.

Each year had to be bigger, brighter, better.

But it was just distracting me from true peace.

So now I spend a little time on my heart, filling it with thoughts of Jesus' birth.

Then I'd decorate for maybe an hour, day by day, a little at a time, with the focus

on my heart first. My house isn't quite as grandly decorated as it used to be, but true

peace just evaded me when I thought it was all about getting everything organized and obsessing

about the condition of and obsessing about the

condition of my house without considering the state of my heart. Today, Nancy DeMas, Walgamuth,

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