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Nobody likes difficulties, but Nancy DeMas Walgamoo says God has a purpose behind the hard things we experience.

God uses suffering to cause our hearts to become detached from things that are less than God,

from things and people, goods, pleasures, things that can only satisfy us to a limited extent.

And then God uses that suffering as we're stripped and detached from those earthly things.

God uses that suffering to attach our hearts to the one who can satisfy us deeply and eternally

to make us God's center.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgam.

Co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For July 21st, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

Do you remember the largest hurricane on record?

Of course, I'm talking about Hurricane Katrina.

It hit New Orleans, Louisiana in 2005, and devastated the entire area.

When natural disasters strike, God's people can have hope when nobody else does.

Here's Nancy reflecting back on Hurricane Katrina

as she continues in the series, Habakkuk, moving from fear to faith. One of the stories that I

found particularly moving was that of Chuck Kelly. And as a result of the hurricane, he found

himself homeless with just a few personal belongings.

And yet through that crisis, by God's grace, his faith remained intact, it remained strong.

And I read of him saying, when we get to the end of this story, this was right after the hurricane hit.

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