Nancy DeMas Walgamuth knows a lot of people are trying to please God out of their own strength.

So many Christians who are striving, struggling, trying harder, I'm going to be a good Christian.

If it kills me, it might, because you can't live the Christian life. The Christian life is not hard, it's not difficult, it's impossible.

Only Jesus could live the Christian life.

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

Place.

For January 16th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

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Over the last two weeks, we've been in a series called Seeking Him,

experiencing the joy of personal revival.

Nancy's shown us the joy that comes from living lives of honesty, repentance, humility, and obedience.

Now, these all sound like great qualities, but the problem is we can't live this way on our own.

We need power outside of ourselves.

Nancy's about to explain where that power comes from.

Niagara Falls is the second largest falls in the world.

On the U.S. side, 150,000 gallons of water per second fall down 176 foot drop. That's a lot of water.

And then 600,000 gallons per second fall over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls on the other side.

That's even more water.

Until the late 1800s, the falls were just a beautiful tourist attraction.

And then scientists began to discover that there was power available in all that water. In 1893, water was first diverted from the Canadian

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