Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth explains the biblical concept of God's Providence.

In this crazy, messed up world, even when you can't see it, God is there. He's always alive,

always active, behind the scenes, hidden many times, but always, always, always at work on behalf of his people and his glory.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Heavent Rules.

For March 3, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh. Well, today we want to take some time to say thank you to each and every one of our revived partners.

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This month, we're going to talk a lot about trusting God's plan.

God is writing a better story for us than we could

have ever written for ourselves. As we listen to Nancy teach through the book of Esther, we'll

see this truth unfold. And I'm telling you, Hollywood could not offer anything better than Esther,

God's woman at God's time. Here's Nancy. I've been so excited about my own study

over these last years and then these last weeks as we were preparing for these recordings.

And let me give you just a little bit of background. I think her story is basically familiar to

most of us, but you remember that Esther was a young Jewish woman who lived in the capital of the

Persian Empire about 450 years before Christ. Now, about 100 years earlier, as discipline from God

for their sin, the Jews, you remember, had been deported from their homeland in Jerusalem to Babylon.

For 70 years, they were captives in Babylon. And then after 70 years, the Babylonian Empire fell to

the Persians, and God put into place a king, a pagan king, king Cyrus, who gave the Jews freedom to go back to their homeland.

And at that point, about 50,000 Jews returned. Now, that seems like a lot, except that it was

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