Hope in the Midst of the Hard

Revive Our Hearts

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Do you sometimes feel like you’re living in the days of the judges, when people did what seemed right in their own eyes? And if that’s not enough, your life circumstances might be just plain difficult. Join us to find hope in the midst of the hard.

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0:00.0	Nancy DeMas Walgamuth says it's easy to praise God when he answers our prayers the way we think he should.
0:06.6	But you have no guarantee that the burden you're carrying right now, the tribulation you're going through, will be solved in the ways that you hope it will.
0:14.6	But what you do have is a guarantee that heaven rules and that God does all things well.
0:23.7	This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Heaven Rules. For May 15th, 2026, I'm Dana Gresh. Hey, we're encouraging everyone to read through the Bible this year.
0:42.5	If you're following the Revive Our Hearts reading plan, there are ways to receive daily encouragement along the way to submit comments and to read the comments of people from all over the world who are reading the same passages
0:54.7	you are. All the information is available at revive our hearts.com slash Bible 2026. You might be
1:01.4	thinking, it's the middle of the year. I can't join now. That would not be true. In fact, the summer
1:05.9	would be a great time for you to push reset on your Bible reading habits and to just jump right on in with us
1:11.6	where we are. Again, you can sign up at revive our hearts.com slash Bible 2026. Do you ever look at
1:19.3	the world we're living in and get depressed or discouraged? I mean, it can seem like we've
1:24.9	slipped back into the days of the judges, with people everywhere
1:28.4	doing what's right in their own eyes.
1:31.5	Maybe you're facing a severe trial that's draining you of energy and tempting you to give
1:35.4	up on God.
1:37.0	You need hope in the midst of the hard.
1:40.3	God has a word for you.
1:42.1	It's in the life of what we might call an unhero. Here's Nancy to explain.
1:47.2	She's teaching in Judges, Chapter 6. Verse 11 of chapter 6, the angel of the Lord came and he sat under
1:53.9	the oak that was in Offra, which belonged to Joash, the Abbey Ezre. This was a man from a town that was in the tribe of Manasseh.
2:04.5	His son, Gideon, was threshing wheat in the winepress in order to hide it from the Midianites.
2:12.6	Verse 12, then the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to this terrified man, the Lord is with you,
2:20.8	Valiant warrior. This is laughable because Gideon was anything but a valiant warrior. Here he is
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