Stories of those who endured hardship in the name of Jesus can encourage you today.

Here's Nancy Damas Walgamuth.

When there's no one there to stand with you and no one to minister to your needs,

remember the people that God has used in the past to

encourage you to refresh your heart.

This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast with Nancy Damas Walggreens, author of A Place of Quiet Rest.

For October 18th, 2024, I'm Dana Gresch. When you endure through suffering it encourages other people to do the same thing and when you're suffering you can look to the

example of others like the example Nancy's about to share. She's continuing in

the series Enduring Life's Hardships. One of my favorite all-time books is a book called Evidence Not Seen

by Darlene Dipler Rose.

This woman is now with the Lord, but during World War II,

she and her husband were missionaries in New Guinea and they were

captured by the Japanese and ended up spending lengthy time separated from each other in Japanese

prison camps. Her husband actually was killed in

prison. They were a young, fairly newly married couple and she endured some of the

most incredible atrocities and sufferings and hardship caught in the crosshairs of World War II.

And she's written that story and what she experienced and how Christ met with her and gave her grace to endure in this book called Evidence Not Seen.

There's a point in this whole experience she was in secret police custody.

She is sick as can be.

She has all these tropical diseases, Berry,

dysentery, she's weak, she's hungry, she's separated from her husband, she's

afraid. And then here's how she describes what happened. She said, so tenderly my lord wrapped his strong arms of quietness and calm

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