Johnny Erickson Tata says sometimes God allows suffering to reveal the condition of our hearts.

And pain and problems and paralysis become the lemon that he squeezes to reveal the spitefulness and the selfishness.

We are at the core, each one of us, dog nasty sinners, and we don't like it.

We don't want to hear it.

I don't want to hear it.

But that's the truth about me, and I need to know it.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoo, author of Holiness for June 24, 2019.

I can't tell you how often when I'm tempted to be discouraged, but I think about the example

of my sweet friend Johnny Erickson Tata.

And I know a lot of other people feel the same way.

I've seen Johnny display so much grace, so much joy, even while suffering for all these

years from quadriplegia and in more recent years

from chronic pain and cancer.

A few months ago, Johnny was in the hospital for a couple of weeks, and here's what she wrote

about that experience.

She said, when nurses and AIDS, respiratory therapists and doctors asked how I was doing,

I could say, Jesus gives me his peace.

It's not as the world gives, so my heart's not troubled and I'm not afraid.

Wow. Now, how does someone have that kind of attitude while suffering so greatly?

Well, today, Johnny will show us how she's learned to have joy, not just in spite of suffering, but actually because of suffering.

All this month, we've been focused on the theme of perseverance here on Revive Our Hearts, and I can't think of anyone better to address that topic than Johnny Tata.

So we're going to bring you a powerful message that Johnny delivered at one of our True Woman conferences.

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