Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Obedience is the pathway to blessing.

It's the means of protection.

It's the means of joy.

It's the means to finding God's best in our lives.

Every time you find the call to obedience in the scripture,

it's really an invitation to be blessed. You want to be blessed?

Obey.

It's Monday, October 22nd, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

The last several weeks, we've been seeking him.

Nancy's going through the characteristics of personal revival.

We've explored humility, honesty, repentance, grace, and holiness.

And it's been great. This week, we continue with obedience. If you're following

along in the Seeking Him workbook, today you'll start on page 125. Here's Nancy. I think most of you

are probably familiar with the story of Helen Keller. You may have seen the video or the play called The Miracle Worker.

When Helen was 19 months old, she was struck with a fever that left her blind and deaf.

When she was six, her parents hired a tutor whose name was Anne Sullivan to come and help this child develop some skills.

When Anne first came to live in the Keller home, you remember that Helen was very wild, uncontrollable,

she was undisciplined, she often threw temper tantrums, and nobody could manage this child.

Helen later attributed those temper tantrums to her frustration over her inability to communicate.

But in her autobiography, Anne Sullivan, the tutor, the teacher,

tells about a scene that happened when she first came to the Keller home.

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