When you feel desperate or overwhelmed, maybe that's right where God wants to meet you.

Here's Nancy DeMoss-Swall-Gamuth.

You'll never experience all that there is to know of God until you have found yourself in a place of drought,

in a place of desperation, in a place where you think you're drowning.

And in the midst of those most desperate circumstances, you will be driven in that little

boat of yours on that overwhelming sea, you'll be driven to the place that is your only true

hope, and that is in God.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of The Quiet

Place for April 9th, 2019.

This week, Nancy's bringing us a series called Dealing with Depression and Doubt as part of our

month-long theme, tackling tough issues. Have you ever felt like you were out in a very stormy sea

and you were trying to make it to shore but the waves just kept coming upon you and upon you and upon you.

And you felt as if in your life the waves were so strong that, and the current so great, that you just couldn't make it back to shore.

I live near Lake Michigan, and we have some real strong undercurrent there and some

stormy days, and each year there are deaths in Lake Michigan, people who just can't fight the storm

or the weather or the waves. And there are days in life when we feel as if that sea, that lake, that ocean is going to overwhelm us.

I'm so thankful that the scripture gives to us stories of people who identify with what it is to feel almost swallowed up by life.

I talk with a lot of women, I read a lot of emails. I get a lot of mail and voicemails and hear stories

and look into the eyes of women who are feeling overwhelmed by life. And maybe the reason I recognize

it when I see it is because I've been there so many times myself feeling with good things.

It's not always just bad things that are

happening, but sometimes with just the fullness of everything that is going on in life, it's just too

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