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Waiting is one of the hardest things we're asked to do. Nancy DeMas Walgamuth explains what

gives us the power to do it. We wait by faith, knowing that God has more for us, that God is going to one day give us glorified

bodies, that we will have an eternity with no pain and no sorrow and no death.

We wait eagerly for that.

This is the Revive Our Hearts Podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgamut, author of Freedom Through

For July 20th, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

Life sometimes seems like a traffic jam.

You have great hopes and ideas, but there's always something to block your progress.

There are days when it feels like you're moving by inches on your plans, projects, or dreams.

The prophet Habakkuk would understand.

We'll find out what he learned about waiting while Nancy continues in the series Habakkuk, moving from fear to faith. Well, as we come to the end of Habakkuk, we're in the last paragraph, really, of chapter 3, and Habakkuk is praying to the Lord. He's responding to the things that he has seen, the things he's witnessed, the vision God

has given him of God's character, God's holiness, God's glory, God's plan, God's purposes.

He's seeing that there is judgment coming, that the Babylonians are going to be God's instrument

to chasten the Jewish people for their backslidden ways, but then God is going to judge the

Babylonians.

They will reap what they have sown. And it's as if the whole vision is just too much for

Habakkuk to handle. And in the light of what he has seen, he says in verse 16, I hear and my body

trembles. My lips quiver at the sound. Rotteness enters into my bones. My legs tremble beneath me.

And we saw in the last session that Habakkuk trembles at the revelation of the glory of God, the revelation of the power of God, at the wrath of God.

And he trembles at the impending judgment and the coming persecution that even the righteous will experience because they live

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