Newsflash, you're not perfect.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

You read the Word of God, you read the commands of God, you hear the things we teach and revive our hearts, and you think, yeah, that all sounds great.

I want to be this Proverbs 31 woman, this woman of hospitality, this woman who's gracious and meek and kind and loving and submissive and always talk sweetly to my children.

Yeah, wouldn't that be great? But that's not me.

I can't do that. And you come to the end of some days and you want to pull your hair out and say,

I can't live this life. And I say, amen.

Brilliant discovery. It's an essential discovery to realize that you cannot please God

apart from the grace of God. This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMaz for Tuesday, October 9th. In a series called Seeking Him, we've heard about marks of true revival, humility, honesty, and repentance.

Now, maybe you're thinking those sound like great qualities, but your won't power is a lot stronger than your willpower.

Well, there's good news.

Developing humility, honesty, and repentance doesn't have anything to do with willpower, but with grace.

Here's Nancy to talk about it.

I received an email the other day from a listener that really struck me as being representative, sadly, of, I think, a lot of believers today.

Here's what this woman said.

I have an active prayer life.

I listen to the radio, study my Bible, attend church, serve and give to others.

And each morning I tell the Lord I'm here to glorify him, I do and do and live and live as best I can.

Yet I have a huge burden of guilt that I can never be enough, look enough, feel enough, believe enough in God.

There are times when you speak, she said to me,

when you antagonize those feelings of guilt in me, you come across like you have everything together.

If only she knew. She said, I get the feeling that I will never ever be able to do enough or love enough or be enough to please God, that I will not ever be able

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