People may think you're kind of strange, but here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth with some good advice.

Talk to yourself. Tell yourself the truth. God is sovereign. God is wise. He doesn't make mistakes.

He's not going to bring anything into my life except that which would be for my ultimate good.

And keep counseling your heart according to the Word of God.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast

with Nancy DeMoss Walgamut,

author of The Quiet Place

for April 11, 2019.

Music This month, we're tackling some tough issues here on Revive Our Hearts.

Nancy's continuing in this week's series dealing with depression and doubt.

Usually if we hear that somebody is talking to herself, we think there's

something wrong. Do you talk to yourself? Some of you obviously do. I have to confess, I do sometimes

too, but we're going to see in the scripture today that there's actually time when it's really

the right thing to do to talk to yourself. We've been looking this week at Psalms 42 and 43,

and we've seen the psalmist in a desperate, depressed, doubting, distressing, drowning circumstance.

That's a lot of dees.

But it was really just a tough time in his life,

and he has felt just overwhelmed by the circumstances of life.

We saw yesterday that in the midst of his distress, he makes a choice to talk to God,

to talk first to God. And we saw that he tells God his problems, that he asks God his questions,

and he asks God to restore intimate union and fellowship with God.

He's saying, that is my greatest goal, not to get my problem solved. But Lord, if I have to walk

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