Nancy DeMas Walgamoos says,

sometimes we need to spend more time waiting.

Now, there is a moment to act.

There are times to take action, to do something.

But there are far more moments than most of us realize when we just need to be still.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgamuth, author of Lies Women to Leave and the Truth that Sets Them Free.

For February 2nd, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

Don't just stand there. Do something. Has anyone ever told you that? Sometimes we feel as if we're

being irresponsible if we don't just take action. But today, we'll see why sometimes the best thing to do

is wait. Nancy is in a series called Ruth, the transforming power of redeeming

love. Do you ever feel when you go to pray a little bit hesitant to ask God for what's really

on your heart? Do you ever feel like if you were to tell him what you really need that you

might be imposing on him or bothering him that your requests are too big and may be hesitant

to ask him for what you really need.

When we left Ruth yesterday, she was at the feet of Boaz, and she was there in the threshing

floor at the end of the harvest and asking Boaz, well, to be her husband. If you're just picking up

with us now, that's not quite as strange as it might sound. We've seen that Ruth was a poor,

needy widow, and Boaz was a wealthy Jewish landowner, and you might think that Ruth would have

been afraid to ask him to meet her need,

but she realized that he was her kinsman redeemer. He was her Goel. That's a little Hebrew word

that we've been looking at over the last few weeks that speaks of someone who is a protector.

It's a man who would step in and help his poor, needy relative. And Ruth had come to

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