It looks so fun to win a sports championship or a medal, but that moment only comes after an incredible amount of endurance.

Here's Nancy Damas Walgamuth.

Well, no athlete gets to the finish line without a lot of rigor and

hardship and effort and paying a price and blood and sweat and tears and that's

what it takes to be a champion that's what it takes to run faithfully all the way to the finish line.

This is the Revive Our Hearts Podcast with Nancy Damas Walgernuth, author of Revive My Heart. For October 22nd, current series has helped so many listeners. It's called Enduring Life's Hardships. We heard

from Amber who sent Nancy this message. Over the past three years I have endured

incredible opposition.

Tonight I listened to the episode holding up under pressure.

I was in tears.

I needed to hear this message.

I needed to hear your struggles, wondering if you are are enough if you can carry the weight and hold up.

I needed to hear that the Bible doesn't change and we hold the truth without swerving.

So thank you for persisting. I will persist too in my own way as God

opens doors. Thank you, Amber, and keep on persisting. If you've missed any of this teaching from second Timothy you can hear

it at revive our hearts.com or on the Revive Our Hearts app. It's an important topic

because if you do endure it will bring about a great, great reward. Here's Nancy. I just learned that one

of the ladies who's here with us today in the recording just celebrated last

week her 60th wedding anniversary and I said you should be teaching the

course on endurance that's endurance and I don't know what kind of marriage it's

been but I know enough to know that 60 years of living with

anyone has had to involve ups and downs, heartaches, hardships, suffering,

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