When God provides resources, it can be used for his glory, but it also comes with some dangers and temptations.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

But I want to make sure that my own heart doesn't get entwined in the money piece, the greed piece.

It can be money, it can be salary, it can be honor, it can be reputation.

And there's something about that that triggers pride that then causes God to resist you and becomes dangerous.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamo, author of Brokenness, The Heart God Revives. For July 31st, 2021, 2025, I'm Danegresh.

We're in the final day of a very helpful series called Blessings and Curses,

A Look at the Life of Bailum.

Here's Nancy. I had a flight delay in O'Hare

earlier this week and was sitting, working on my laptop at a station where you can plug in,

and there was an empty space next to me, and the gentleman came over and plugged his computer in,

and then needed some help with his laptop, which I was useless. I want to know how to

find his password, and I wasn't much help on that. But we got into a conversation. He's an older man

and had a lot of opinions about what's going on in the world today and was quite outspoken about

many things. We ended up having fascinating conversation and good opportunity to point this man

to Jesus. But he said, you know, there's a lot of people leaving the church today. And the reason

he felt, he said it's because all the churches and religious leaders care about is getting the people's

money. That was his perspective. Now here's a religious man.

He's not an atheist.

He's a devout religious man.

But his perspective is that people are leaving the church in droves today

because all the church cares about is getting people's money.

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