Nancy DeMas Walgamo says, we need to take our eyes off people and care more about what God thinks.

If you're living to please others, you'll make wrong choices, you'll make foolish choices, you'll experience consequences as a result in your life.

But if your life is driven by a desire to please the Lord and how you look, how you dress, how you act, how you talk,

who you date, who you marry, the job you have. If you're driven to please the Lord,

if your life is based on convictions, then you will be willing to stand alone. You'll be willing

to go against the crowd if need be. You'll have courage because you'll be fearing God and not man.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgavus, author of Heaven Rules.

For March 18th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Do you ever hear debates over some topics and wonder, how can two people see things so differently?

It really has to do with the fundamental beliefs people hold in their hearts, don't you

think?

Well, today, we'll see how core

beliefs affect everything. Here's Nancy, continuing in the series, Esther, God's woman at God's

time. When we first started this series, I challenged you to read the book of Esther repeatedly

during this series and to look for three things, to look for God

and his attributes, and we're seeing God's providence and his sovereignty. We're seeing that all

through this story. I encouraged you to look for the battle that is taking place between two

kingdoms, the kingdom of man and the kingdom of God. And I think you've seen how that battle is

personified and epitomized in

Haman and Mordecai. And the battle between them is really just a picture of a bigger cosmic

battle. And then I encourage you to look at the characters involved and to see the contrasts

between those characters. There are in the story of Esther two sets of characters

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