Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

If you don't step out in faith and attempt the impossible, you will never see what God can do.

If you just play it safe, if you just go where you feel secure and handle what you think you can handle or manage, you'll never see what God can do.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, September 24, 2014.

Would an outside observer think you are highly organized, driven, a good planner?

These are all admirable qualities.

But if that's all people see in you, then something is missing.

Nancy will explain why we should take on tasks bigger than our ability to plan, organize, and execute.

It's part of the series Lessons from the Life of Joshua, Part 8, before we conquer.

I was interviewed yesterday afternoon for another radio program from another ministry,

and one of the questions they asked me was about what kind of books I like to read.

And I told them that I love reading biographies. Always have, I teethed on biographies. I read my first biography when I was a little girl, probably seven or eight years old. It was a biography of J.C. Penny. I don't know how that came into my hands, but it was a children's version, and I read that biography over and over and over again.

But over the years, I have loved reading biographies of men and women who've been greatly used by God in various ways.

A lot of missionary biographies, Gladys Aylward and Hudson Taylor and George Mueller and Amy Carmichael.

And I recommend those highly to you.

I recommend you read those to your children.

There are a lot of children's biographies available today that weren't available when I was a child.

But the common denominator, and I think one of the things I love about these biographies of men and women of God in the past,

is their willingness to step out in faith?

To step out into the impossible.

To move forward when what they were getting ready to do did not make sense to human reasoning.

When what they were doing seemed or actually was impossible.

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