Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth tells us about an important assignment for the body of Christ.

Look around you, at home, at church, in your community, in your workplace, and ask the Lord who needs to be encouraged and then set out to let God encourage you through them.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoo. let God encourage you through them.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgman, author of Adorned.

For February 21st, 2023, I'm Dana Gresh. Nantes in day two of a series called Encouraging One Another. In July of 2002, there were nine miners who were working 240 feet below the ground

in the Cue Creek mine found in southwestern Pennsylvania.

And as they were working, they accidentally breached the wall of an adjacent abandoned mine.

And as they did, they unleashed a torrential flood of 50 to 60 million gallons of water into their own mine.

Those nine miners spent the next 77 plus hours trapped, fighting for their lives as the water

kept rising for a long part of that time, then desperately struggling to break free,

finally huddled together in the dark,

waiting for rescuers to reach them all the way down at that point in the ground.

And at one point, it seemed that all hope was lost.

And those miners, they told how they had found a cardboard box,

they tore up in pieces, and each

wrote a message to his loved ones, thinking they would never see them again, their final message.

They sealed those messages in an old, filthy pail, and then covered it, sealed it up for the rescuers

to find it.

They showed that pail when they were interviewed

afterwards and it still was sealed up and someone, the interviewer said, are you going to ever

open that pail? And they said, no, no. And then finally, in desperation, they tied themselves together.

If they were going to drown, they wanted to drown together.

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