God doesn't ask us to get our act together before we come to him.

In fact, he requires just the opposite.

Here's Anne Ortland.

It is when I confess my weakness that he can begin to pour in his strength.

When I think I can do it, I fall on my face.

God can start with you when you're willing to say, here's my need, I need help.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Wednesday, July 23rd.

A glove can't do anything without a hand inside of it.

Today, our guest, Dan Ortland, will describe to us how we're kind of like a glove,

powerless, without God's presence inside us.

Here's Nancy.

I'm so grateful to have a very special guest with us today on Revive Our Hearts. Her name is Ann Ortland, and Anne needs no introduction to many of our listeners. But in case you're not

familiar with, Anne, she's a best-selling author of over a dozen books for women, including children are wet cement, and fix your eyes on Jesus, and my sacrifice, his fire.

But the one that I read as a college student that particularly impacted my life 25 years ago was one of her earlier books called The Disciplines of a Beautiful

Woman.

And welcome to revive our hearts.

We're so thankful that you could be with us today.

Nancy, I've loved you for a long time.

You have.

I was in the church that your husband pastored when I was a college student, and you and Ray

have had such a sweet impact in my life even though we've had very little

connection over those 25 years but for me and much of it has been through your writings and now

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