According to Nancy DeMas Walgamuth, we all face an important decision.

Trust or tyranny. That's the option. Trust the promises of God, which will free you to live

joyfully under his loving lordship, or live under the tyranny of that which you refuse to surrender.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Surrender,

The Heart God Controls. For June 3, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

This week, we've been hearing about the joy that comes from surrendering ourselves to God.

And we've seen how God will provide in four areas in which we tend to fear.

Provision, pleasure, safety, and relationships. Today we'll hear about what happens

when we don't give ourselves to God. Here's Nancy. I think one of the biggest challenges on the front

end of surrendering everything to God is not knowing what it's going to mean. What is God going to require?

What is he going to ask for? And I can just imagine Abraham and Sarah, who had so little to go on.

They didn't have Bible stories that they could read to tell them how it would turn out if they trusted God.

They couldn't read the end of the story. And we can't read the end of our story.

And sometimes on the front end, particularly I think when we're younger in our walk with the Lord,

and particularly for younger people, you think, my whole life is ahead of me. If I totally give it over to God,

what is that going to mean? And what we really would like to have is a detailed contract

that God would give us. We want to be able to read the small print, and we want to know what's ahead.

Will he let me get married? Will he let me have children? Will I be healthy? Will I be able to

buy the things that I want? Will I live in a place that I like? And then we can decide

whether or not to sign the

contract. Well, I'm here to tell you that that's not the way God does it. And if it were,

there would be no faith involved, would there? What God does instead is hands us a blank piece

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