Have you ever felt like just giving up? Karen Watts has.

I remember the day that inside I said, I'm done.

I'm done with the Lord. He did not do what I expected him to do.

I did everything right, and he didn't follow through with what I ask him.

If you can relate, today's program will provide hope.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgabuth, author of Brokenness,

The Heart God Revives. For August 20th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

Music For August 20th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

Nancy, you know, a lot of people sit in church week after week, learning about God,

and yet they're still trying to control their own lives. They're really living by their own power.

You know, I have a friend who at one point was trying to manage things on his own and was actually struggling with low-grade depression. As God began to deal in his life, he wrote a letter

describing what happened. He said, I had turned so much anger inward that it had become

churning hatred, which affected my entire attitude. Then he said, since God has brought me to a new

point of brokenness, I've described my life as one that is moved from being a black and white

movie to being lived in a full-color motion picture.

Isn't that a great word picture? When we're willing to crucify the flesh, to give up our

pride, and to let the spirit of God work through us, then we truly begin to live.

We're going to hear from a woman who discovered that full-color motion picture.

She had lived a sinful life as a young woman, and then she began to play a religious game.

She was trying to look good on the outside while she was still desperately needy on the inside.

I was 23, married already, had two children and had been through

some tragedies of loss of twin boys and they died at birth and some other tragedies in our lives.

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