Johnny Erickson Tata says, no matter what you're facing, you need God's grace.

Oh, I want to be where God's grace is. God's grace, the desire and the power to do his will,

the desire and the power to obey is sufficient for my paralysis and for your pain and problems,

for your struggling marriage or singleness, for your dead-end job,

because Jesus Christ is your co-laborer in all this stuff called suffering.

I mean, he has been tempted and tested and tried.

He is with you.

He is worth it all.

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

Choosing Gratitude. It's Memorial Day, May 30th, that sometimes when I'm tackling difficult ministry projects

or deadlines, I get discouraged.

Sometimes I get weary and sometimes I feel like throwing in the towel.

That's the truth.

And you probably feel that way at times yourself. But when I'm

facing those experiences, God often brings to my mind the example of my sweet friend Johnny

Erickson Tata. As you probably know, when Johnny was a teenager, she suffered a spinal cord

injury as a result of a dive, which left her confined to a wheelchair

as a quadriplegic. I've known Johnny now for many years, and when I think of her faithfulness

and God's grace in her life, God often uses that picture of Johnny to encourage me to keep going in the race, regardless

of what difficulties or obstacles I may be facing.

Well, when we began planning the first true woman conference back in 2008, we invited

Johnny to come and speak, and she agreed, but as the conference date grew closer, she began experiencing debilitating

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