Nancy DeMas Walgamoos says there's only one place to get courage for all you're facing.

God is the ultimate source of all encouragement.

And anything or anyone other than God that we turn to to find our primary encouragement, we'll find is insufficient.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Heaven Rules.

For September 4th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Yesterday, Nancy began a series called Defying Discouragement.

Here's the thinking behind that title.

Defy is another word for resist or oppose.

And Scripture tells us to resist the devil.

Nancy calls discouragement one of the enemy's favorite tools.

So when we defy discouragement, we're engaging in a true

Ephesion 6 kind of warfare. She recorded this series in Little Rock, Arkansas. Nancy has friends there

who serve as missionaries in the developing world. They've been there for just about a year,

and last week, their colleague, their senior leader on the field, had a family circumstance come up and had to leave the field on a day's notice.

So this couple, my friends, were left with the work themselves, and they're just new to the work.

And then the next morning, they received a call letting them know that my friend Cheryl's father had died and she was going to have to come back

to the States for the funeral. The family is here in Arkansas so she was going to be coming through

the area and needed a place to stay. And so we began to set up the arrangements. And within a period of

days, I don't know that I have the whole sequence exactly right,

her father died, and then several days later, her husband's mother died in another state.

And they had just lost their field leaders.

Now Cheryl comes to the states to bury her father.

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