There's a time for everything. Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth. We battle sin, we battle the world,

we battle the devil, that our spiritual battle should be followed by a time of celebration

and joy. It's a good thing, it's a right thing to stop and take note of what God has done

and to celebrate. But you can't enjoy the celebration and the joy

until first you've waged the warfare.

We're waging war today on the Revive Our Hearts podcast

with Nancy DeMoss Welgamuth, author of Adorned.

For March 21st, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

I'm Dana Gresh.

You know, we tend to celebrate in order to forget.

We want to leave behind our work, our problems, just have some amusement.

There's a far more fulfilling way to celebrate, though.

Throughout the Bible, God calls his people to celebrate, not to forget, but in order to remember.

Here's Nancy to explain, continuing in a series called Esther, God's woman at God's time.

They say in literature that something that makes a great plot is having tension and relief.

And today is the relief of this story.

There's been a lot of tension in this story of Esther.

And tension for us, imagine being in the position of the Jews. All these months, they've seen this escalating tension between Haman and Mordecai,

between the Jews and their enemies.

They've had to wait for nearly a year to have the opportunity to overcome their enemies.

It's been a long haul.

It's been a tough waiting period. There's been a lot of

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