Here's Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth on why you can be joyful, even in a storm.

God is my exceeding joy.

It's not the presence or absence of the storm that determines my joy level.

It's the presence of God.

He is my exceeding joy.

So I will be joyful in him.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of The Quiet

Place for April 12, 2019.

What's the biggest, most threatening challenge in your life today?

Keep that situation in mind as Nancy shows you how to find peace in a storm.

She's in the series Dealing with Depression and Doubt.

I'd like to read in its entirety the passage that we've been studying over the last several sessions, Psalms 42 and 43, just to remind us of how faith answers sight, how we counter the

real life circumstances in our lives with faith in the ways and the word of God.

We've seen, first of all, that the psalmist is experiencing a time of drought.

Then we saw that he felt like he was drowning.

And in the midst of all this, he keeps coming back and counseling his heart to believe in God,

to hope in God that there will be

deliverance. So let me read this passage. Psalm 42, as the deer longs for the water brooks,

so longs my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come

and see the face of God? My tears have been my food day and night.

While they continually say to me, where is your God? When I remember these things, I pour out my soul

within me. For I used to go with the multitude. I went with them to the house of God, with the voice

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