Nancy DeMas Walgamuth reminds us we exist to be servants.

So when God interrupts my day with someone who has a need or something that I had not planned,

for me to groan and moan and get all been out of shape about it, to act as if it were an imposition,

is really to forget who I'm serving and why.

This is the Reviva Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoo, author of Surrender, The Heart God Controls. For Monday, April 7th,

2025, I'm Dana Gresh. Nancy's written a trilogy of books about the heart, and one of those is on the topic of surrender.

This week, we'll be walking through a series based on the book. Here's Nancy to kick us off.

Joseph Sahn, T-S-O-N, is how that's spelled, is a Romanian pastor who was exiled from his native

country in 1981 because of the influence that he had had in that country, causing people

to turn to faith in Christ.

And before he was exiled, he experienced extended persecution at the

hands of one of the most repressive communist regimes in history. When he was exiled, he immigrated

to the United States, where he ministered for nearly a year before he was able finally to go

back to his homeland after communism fell, and he's still serving there

today. I first met Joseph and his precious wife, Elizabeth, back in the early 80s. One of the

very first impressions I ever had of this man was just before he was asked to speak, he was asked

how he would like to be introduced. Here's a man who has an earned

doctorate degree from Oxford University. He's brilliant, he's articulate, he's a philosopher,

he's a theologian, he has incredible academic and professional credentials, and had suffered

so greatly for his faith. I mean, he's just a, he's a hero in many respects. But when he was asked how I wanted to be

introduced, he said, all I want you to say is that I'm a slave of Jesus Christ. A slave of Jesus Christ.

It's interesting that he didn't say that he wanted to be introduced as a servant of Jesus Christ.

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