If it ever seems like important events come together by chance, remember this from Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth.

There's no such thing as chance. It's all under providence. God's providential knowledge and decree and love and care. It's all under his control.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy Demos Walgamuth, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story. For February 12, 26, I'm Dana Gresh.

So far in the Book of Ruth, we have seen how Naomi left Israel during a famine.

Her husband and sons died.

And then she traveled back to her home as a bitter woman.

Her daughter-in-law, a Moabite woman named Ruth, came with her.

If you've missed any of that, you can find past episodes at revive our hearts.com.

Nancy's back to pick up our study in Ruth.

One of the things I love about the Lord and about his ways is that he always has a provision in place to meet us at our point of need. A lot of times we can't see what that provision

is or where it is. We can't imagine that it's coming, and we may feel like we are really caught

between a rock and a hard place. We may get to a point of great desperation, but God never gets

desperate. Do you ever think about that? God always has a plan. He always has a provision.

And in his way and in his time, he will reveal that provision to us. Let me encourage you

if you've been following along, or even if you haven't and are just joining us for this session,

to open your Bible to the Book of Ruth, and when you have a chance to read it for yourself.

Now, we're going very slowly through the book, so I would encourage you to sit down and read it in one setting, if possible.

It won't take you long, just a few minutes, four short chapters, so that you'll get an idea of the whole story.

In fact, some Bible teachers have suggested that a great way to study the Bible is to take

a shorter book of the Bible like Ruth and read it every day repeatedly for a week or even

for 30 days.

And you'll find that you get fresh insights.

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