Where do you find yourself seeking satisfaction? Here's Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth.

So where do you find the greatest pleasure? Where do you find fullness of joy? Where do you find

life to the hilt? You find it in the presence of God. You don't find it from eating more

food. You don't find it from alcohol or drugs or illicit sex. Those things may

satisfy for a moment, but like sugar, they give you a quick high and then a quick drop.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgam. Author of Surrender, The Heart

God Controls. For June 2nd, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

This week, we're in a series called Surrender, Facing Our Fears.

If you missed any of those episodes, you can find them all at revive our hearts.com

or on the Revive Our Hearts app. Nancy's helped us think about what would happen if we truly

surrendered everything to God. Maybe you've been thinking, if I did surrender, I'd have to give up

all happiness. Here's Nancy to help us think that through. In our

Western world, the pursuit of happiness has become one of the highest goods and one of the things

we most seek after. And I think it's important that we understand as we're talking about

surrender to the will of God, that God does want us to be happy,

that he does want to give us pleasure. This is something I've had to wrestle with in my own life

because I've had, I think, a view of God and his ways that says, if you're trying to be happy,

there's something wrong with you. And I've grown up in this environment of thinking about walking with God and surrender to God,

but that happiness didn't necessarily matter.

The problem is not that God doesn't want us to be happy.

The problem is that we try to find happiness and pleasure apart from God.

In fact, the enemy convinces us that if you really surrender your life to God, if you

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