When Randall and Rachel Pallitner first saw Gideon, their love for him was real.

I will do anything for you, and I've met you four seconds ago.

In spite of his behavior.

I was like, oh my goodness, he hates me.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For February 27th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

I'm so thankful for the chance this week to talk with Randall and Rachel Paylightner.

Randall and I go back a long ways, a number of years, and Rachel, I'm just getting to know.

But this is a precious

couple who are sharing with us this week, their story. If you didn't get to listen to yesterday's

program about their journey with infertility and international adoption, you want to go to

revive our hearts.com and pick that up some really sweet moments in hearing them, talk about God's faithfulness to them

in that part of their journey.

So Rachel and Randall, thank you for being back with us here today on Revive Our Hearts.

Glad to be here. Thanks, Nancy.

Thank you. Thanks for having us.

Before we jump into the rest of your story, I just want to take a little parentheses here.

Randall, you serve with Moody Publishers, Ministry of Moody Bible Institute. That's right. And Reviver Hearts and I recently celebrated our 20 years of publishing. That's right, 20 years. Moody publishers. How did that happen so fast? I don't know. I don't know. And about 20 books in that period of time.

So many wonderful books. And I remember my first year on the job or so was into that a little bit.

I've been at Moody for about 15 years. And the first Nancy book that I had occasion to study and read was through a mutual friend of ours was your seeking him study.

And I remember working

through that, recognizing the depth and the value. And obviously at that point, it had already

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