According to Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, the follower of Jesus always has a reason to worship.

Listen, I don't care how discouraged you are, how overwhelmed you are, what the circumstances are that you may be facing in your life.

You can sing to the Lord.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Lies, Women Believe.

For September 5th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Many, many women I'm talking with in the church today are greatly discouraged.

And I battle it a lot myself.

Even in the ministry, doing the things God has called me to, I find myself a lot of times giving way to discouragement.

And the scripture provides us a wealth of resource and understanding about how to deal with discouraging times in our lives.

We've been looking at 1 Samuel chapter 30.

And an incident from the life of David, if you've not been with us, let me just review what has happened.

David has been running for his life from King Saul for 15 years.

He's been told by God that he would be the

next king, but there's no evidence that God is going to fulfill his promise. It looks to the

contrary, as if David's going to lose his life before he gets to the throne. And David and his

600 men who have gathered around him, who have become his army, his troops, they have gone out

to fight and then come back to their hometown in Philistine territory, the town of Zichlag, and found

that another enemy, the Amalekites, have come and burned their city, burned all their possessions,

taken their wives, taken their children,

and they come back to this town with the smoke still rising up out of the ground,

and their family's gone, and they're obviously greatly distressed.

So we read in 1 Samuel chapter 30, verse 4,

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