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Nancy DeMas Walgamu says suffering makes us grow.

But that doesn't mean we cry and we pray to the Lord.

Oh, please bring on sufferings into my life.

You don't need to ask for suffering.

God will bring that.

He knows we need adversity.

He knows that's how all things

grow. But what you can choose and what you can pray to have is this choice to rejoice in your

sufferings. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgamer, co-author of You Can Trust God

to Write Your Story. For July 22nd, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

Many of you have heard the story of John Newton.

He lived in the 1700s.

He was a former slave ship captain who was converted at the age of John Newton. He lived in the 1700s. He was a former slave ship captain who was

converted at the age of 23 and ultimately became a pastor, poet, a hymn writer. He's best known

for which him. Amazing grace and has become immortalized. But John Newton met Mary Catlett when they were both still teenagers,

and he was unconverted. And then in his early 20s, he came to know Christ, his life was transformed,

and about two years after his conversion, these two who had fallen in love as teenagers were finally married.

Mary and John loved each other passionately, and they had an extraordinary marriage

by all accounts. Newton could never imagine living without Mary, and so he always assumed that he

would die first. However, Mary was stricken with cancer, and after a long struggle, she finally died on

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