Have you ever known someone who showed an amazing sense of joy in the middle of a crisis?

Nancy DeMas-Walgamuth explains how you could be that person.

The reason the people of God can rejoice, even in the midst of their barrenness,

is that the ultimate outcome will be different than their current situation.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth, along with Dana Gresh,

for September 19, 2019.

Thank you. 2019. I believe it's no accident that you're listening right now. This entire month, we've been studying the mysteries of God's providence. And I know that today, in his providence, God has something that you need

to hear. If you have a Bible handy, you might go ahead and turn to Isaiah chapter 54. Let's listen

in as Nancy opens God's word to show us how to have peace in painful trials. Here's Nancy in

this month's series. You can Trust God to Write Your Story.

Over the last several weeks, as we were finishing up the work on You Can Trust God to Write

Your Story, and as I was working on this series, I was also in my quiet time reading and journaling through the

book of Isaiah. So usually wherever I'm reading and meditating in my quiet time, it somehow

makes its way into my teaching because that's what I'm thinking about a lot at that time.

And I have loved the way that Isaiah, which I just finished working through yesterday,

well, not finished. I'll be doing it the rest of my life.

It's an amazing book. But it beautifully illustrates this message of trusting God to write your story.

So I want to talk about a particular chapter today. If you have your Bible, you can turn to

Isaiah 54 or scroll there. But let me just give you some context.

Isaiah the prophet, Isaiah, by the way, whose name means the Lord of Salvation.

And that's a great name to know that he is salvation, if you're trusting him to write your story.

But he was a prophet to the southern kingdom of Judah during the reign of four kings,

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