Do you need serious help in some area today?

Nancy DeMoss-Wagelmuth reminds you...

Help is not just deliverance from problems, but help is God's deliverance through trouble.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, February 19, 2016.

You can't help other people with their needs until you lean on God to help you with your needs.

Nancy began to show us that yesterday in a series

called, Oh God, our help. She delivered this message to a group of women's ministry leaders

that revive our hearts wanted to encourage. We'll review a little bit of what we heard yesterday

and then hear part two of Nancy's message.

First Samuel, chapter four, verse one tells us that Israel went out to battle against the

Philistines.

They encamped at a place called Ebenezer.

That's two words. Eben means stone, and Ezer or Azer means what?

Help. So this is a place that is called stone of help. That's where the Israelites are camped and camped.

And the Philistines encamped at Afic. Verse two, the Philistines drew up in line against

Israel. And when the battle spread, Israel was defeated before the Philistines, who killed about

4,000 men on the field of battle. And here they are at a place called Stone of Help, the Israelites,

and yet they go to battle against the Philistines, and the

Philistines defeat them decisively. This is a humiliating defeat, and from all appearances,

God did not help. Why didn't he help his people in that battle? Why did he allow them to be defeated by the Philistines?

Well, as you dig into this whole passage,

it becomes very clear that God wanted the hearts of his people.

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