When you're in the middle of suffering, you might meet God in deeper ways.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

I'm thinking about the three Hebrew young men in the Old Testament there who were thrown into the fiery furnace.

Not only were they not destroyed by the fire, but that's where they experienced the presence of Christ walking there in the midst of that fire with them.

Those guys never got any closer to Jesus than they were when they were in the midst of that fire.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Choosing Forgiveness.

For August 22nd, 2023, I'm Dana Gresh.

The Book of Revelation tells us about dramatic events happening on a cosmic scale.

Pictures might come to your mind of a beast coming out of the sea and a huge battle being fought.

But Revelation is also very relational and practical.

The book begins with seven letters to seven churches.

Nancy's been teaching through these letters.

This week, we're focusing on the persecuted church of Smyrna in a series called Faithfulness and the Crown of Life.

Nancy's with some friends to reflect on the teaching so far.

I'm finding myself so blessed and challenged by these letters to the churches. Because the subjects

they address are so practical, so relevant, so needed in our day, and I just keep finding

myself thinking as I've been living with these churches over these last months, if Jesus could

write letters to our churches today, if he could write letters to us as believers,

these are the issues he would address.

These are the things he would talk about.

And as we continue studying the letter to the church in Smyrna, Revelation chapter 2,

it's the second letter of the seven.

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