Nancy Lee-Demoss says anything that makes us need God is a blessing.

Suffering strips us of the temporal and focuses our hearts, sets us on the eternal.

It detaches our hearts from this present world and attaches our hearts to heaven and eternity.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss. our hearts to heaven and eternity.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Wednesday, December 4th.

Sometimes simple truths can be the most powerful. I think you'll be reminded of that today as Nancy begins telling us 15 things she's learned

in the last 50 years.

As we near the end of 2013, we're looking back at some of the milestones in the year.

Nancy's about to tell you about a marker she experienced.

Some of you are aware, those of you who do listen to Revive Our Hearts, that this year I've had

the privilege of celebrating a significant marker in my life. My first conscious memory took place on May the 14th, 1963. When as a four-year-old

little girl, I knelt by my bed and all I knew of Jesus gave all of myself to all that I knew of him

and sensed his call on my life. And that's the point I mark as my

conversion, the point at which he captured my heart and drew me to himself. I knew almost

none, almost no theological terminology. And I still don't know a whole lot, but I knew, I mean,

it was four. And, but I just knew that the spirit was drawing my heart.

And I look back and I say, that's when he made me aware of my need for a savior and that

he was a savior that I needed.

And so this year, I celebrated 50 years of knowing Jesus.

And I'm a person, I just like markers and key celebration points, and

I make a big deal about these things. You know, God said to the children of Israel after

the Passover, this is the beginning of your year for you. Every year, remember this, tell this

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