How would you finish this sentence? Living according to God's word is like, well, Nancy

DeMoss Walgamu says your answer should not include words like picnic or cake. His calling

will involve hardship and suffering and obstacles. I'm just telling you, it's not a calling

to an easy life. But we follow in the steps of a Savior who was willing to lay down

his life so that we could live. This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walker.

Author of Surrender, The Heart God Controls. For 28th, 2025, I'm Danegresh.

If you've listened to Revive our hearts for very long, you know Nancy liked to repeat

certain phrases, words that help guide her own life and hopefully will help us guide

ours. One she says a lot is heaven rules. And if you've been to any of our true woman

conferences, you're familiar with another one. Yes, Lord. That phrase represents heart attitude

of accepting whatever God has for us.

And today we'll hear about one woman who, in effect, said, yes, Lord.

We're going to listen to a portion of a message Nancy gave in 2008 at the very first true woman conference.

The theme of that event was, for such a time as this.

It was based on the book of Esther. If you're a regular listener of this

program, you'll remember that we recently spent several weeks walking through the book of Esther.

It was such a rich study that you can review at revive our hearts.com or on the revive our hearts app.

Nancy's message today covers some of those same themes, but it'll give you different things

to think about and pray about. In case you need a refresher, here's some background of the story.

You might remember that Esther was a Jewish young woman who was forcefully taken into the

harem of King Xerxes. Scripture seems to indicate he was a capricious, angry tyrant with a drinking

problem. There was a plot by a man named Haman to exterminate the Jewish people. Esther's relative

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