Over the years in ministry, Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth has encountered lots of discouraged women.

Almost every day I receive emails from women and sometimes men who are listening to revive our hearts

and are writing to share with us how God has been using the program in their lives,

or they're asking us to pray for a specific issue or concern in their lives.

And last night I was reviewing through some of those emails that have come recently and

noticing how many of the women who have written are in circumstances of life that are really

discouraging. A lot of those, for example, relate to a situation in their marriage.

Here's an email from a woman, and by the way, there's been permission given to share this.

Woman who is 33, she's a mother of four, and she says, my marriage has been a nightmare.

My husband's an alcoholic, he's a drug addict. He has served jail time for these

offenses. He left me and my children recently. We're penniless. We cannot pay the rent. Our propane

tank, our source of heat, is at 12%. I learned today that my husband is living with another

woman and supporting her. He will not disclose his whereabouts,

and he told me to leave him alone when I approached him for financial support. And then she says,

my heart is breaking. And today, for the first time in my life, I wanted to die. I am suffering

deep depression and anxiety attacks due to this situation, and I'm on medication. I fear for my

safety. I fear that my husband will try to kidnap our four-year-old son. The pain seems too

great to bear. Wow. You're listening to the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Facing Our Fears, Finding Him Faithful.

For Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025, I'm Dana Grash.

Nancy's beginning a series today called Defying Discouragement to help anyone in tough circumstances

like that woman who wrote Nancy about her difficult family situation.

And I just read a portion of that email and I could read many others to you and not just

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