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Do you need a reminder of the bigger picture? Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth offers some perspective.

God sees, God knows he is at work, and when you need to make some decisions and you need to make some hard choices, God is going to give you.

He's given you the gifts, the wisdom you need, and that you will need in those moments.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Heaven Rules.

For September 6th, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

If you've ever faced a tough, ethical decision, you know how difficult it can be.

Today, Nancy will take us to God's word to see where

Daniel and his friends found courage. Why don't you grab your Bible and follow along in Daniel

Chapter 1? Here's Nancy. I had the great privilege as I was growing up kindergarten through high school

of attending a Christian school. I'm so thankful for that and also

for being in strong Bible preaching churches, Sunday school, just so many ways, family devotions,

ways that the word was infused into my mind and my heart the whole time I was growing up.

But I remember distinctly a class I had in 10th grade. It was called

World Cultures, and the teacher was a man named Roy Parmally. He was also the boys basketball coach,

the varsity basketball coach, and the guys called him Coach Parm. Coach Parm. And in this class

with Mr. Parmaly, we studied the rise and fall of nations throughout the history of the world.

And Mr. Parmaly, Coach Parm, helped us see that these visible world events were not just natural, earthly happenings, but that above and beyond and around all that we could see in the history books,

there is an unseen, wise, sovereign God, who is overseeing all that is going on here on this earth.

I'm so thankful for that class, and the perspective it gave me.

It wasn't a new perspective,

because I had parents who from my earliest childhood had been reminding me that God is big,

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