It's all too easy to lose hope when facing unanswered questions or deferred dreams.

But Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth says it's important in these moments to remember the bigger picture for your life.

We need to trust God's plan, trust God's timing, that he has purposes in our lives, that we don't or can't or won't perceive until just the right time when

God chooses to pull back the curtain and reveal what we've not been able to see.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Adorned, for January 15, 2019.

All of us know what it's like to face disappointment.

How can you deal with displaced dreams in a godly way?

Nancy's about to offer some biblical advice as she continues in the series, a portrait of Elizabeth.

Let me invite you to turn again today in your Bible, if you possibly can, to the Gospel of Luke

the First Chapter of the Gospel of Luke. And we started into

this chapter yesterday when we were introduced to an elderly couple who were a part of this

redemption story God was writing, transitioning from the old covenant to the new covenant of grace.

And we read in verses 5 through 7 7 the backdrop, the setting for what God

was about to do in the fullness of time. So we saw that this was in the days of Herod, the cruel

king of Judea, really a puppet of the Roman government. We saw that in that day there was a priest

named Zachariah, and his name means God remembers.

I love that, that God remembers even when we don't think he does, even when it doesn't seem

that he is remembering.

And he had a wife who was also from the priestly line of Aaron.

Her name was Elizabeth.

Do you remember what that name means? The oath of God, the promise of Aaron. Her name was Elizabeth. Do you remember what that name means? The oath of God,

the promise of God. And we're going to see two people who trusted that God remembers and God

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