It's sure easy to think there's security and permanence in things that actually won't last.

Today, Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth explains.

All that is earthly, no matter how impressive it may be or how enduring it may seem,

it's all going to come to an end.

What are you trusting in?

But when the world around us crumbles, will you be

able to stand firm and hopeful and joyful and patient in tribulation because you're being held

by the God who cannot be shaken? This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Surrender, The Heart God Controls.

For October 28th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

We'll hear from Nancy in just a minute, but first, let's take a moment to cry out to the Lord.

Here's Karen Luritz to lead us in a prayer of confession.

Psalm 51, verses 1 through 4.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love.

According to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only have I sin

and done what is evil in your sight so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in

your judgment. Oh Lord, we lament over the sin that breaks your heart.

We are complicit in addressing the ravages of pride, of the insatiable grief for power, prominence,

of being an anemic witness to the truths of the gospel.

We weep for the loss, those that sinned, and those that have been sinned against,

for the lingering scars of racism and the increasing social injustices that remain,

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