According to my friend and co-host Dana Gresh, if you're going to be a good forgiver, you're going to need some help.

You see, forgiveness is not natural.

It's supernatural.

I'm Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth, and you're listening to the Revive Our Hearts podcast for December 17, 2019.

Thank you. December 17th, 2019.

And Dana, before we start into today's program, I just learned that today is your birthday.

It is.

Happy birthday to you.

I'm not going to sing, but I know we have a lot of listeners who join me in wishing you a very happy birthday. Thank you. And saying how incredibly grateful we are for the gift of your life, your friendship, and your partnership with this ministry.

So happy birthday to you. Thank you. And yesterday, Dana, we started a message that you gave earlier this year at a Reviver

Hearts Women's Conference in Pretoria, South Africa.

And you talked about what's kind of a heavy subject, the subject of forgiveness.

But actually, it's so important for anybody who wants to be free from the heavy burden

they're carrying to deal with this issue of forgiveness.

You know, I found that it's not very often that we say, hey, I want to forgive. to be free from the heavy burden they're carrying to deal with this issue of forgiveness.

You know, I found that it's not very often that we say, hey, I want to forgive, I want to forgive, but we often say I want freedom. And usually it's when we want freedom desperately

enough. We come to a point that we're willing to do what God instructs us to do in forgiving

others. And that can be hard work. It's not necessarily

easy, but it is so liberating. And by the way, if you missed Reviver Hearts yesterday, you can easily

go to Reviverheart's.com to get caught up on this message. You know, a number of years ago,

I wrote a book called Choosing Forgiveness. And listen to the subtyle.

It's what you were just talking about, Dana, choosing forgiveness, your journey to freedom.

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