When you have a meek spirit, it comes out in practical ways.

Here's Nancy DeMas-Walgamuth with an example.

Email can be a place where we really demonstrate a lack of meekness.

And learn to wait to press send until you've stopped and thought,

is this really what God wants me to say?

Amen.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgamuth. I'm going to say. Amen. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Choosing Forgiveness, for July 12th, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh. Do you ever find it difficult to be quiet, to stop, and pause, to refrain from defending

yourself when someone's angry? These are marks of meekness that God can develop in your life.

After our last recording day where we did the first several sessions in this series on

meekness, one of my friends and I were, a couple of my friends and I were having dinner together

that night and one of the women who'd been in the session turned to me and she said, those sessions

on meekness were way too convicting. And I looked at her and I said, sincerely, what particular points did you

find especially convicting? And she looked at me and she said, every word that came out of your

mouth, all those lists of examples of ways that we respond when we're not meek. She said,

I don't think there's a circumstance in my life where my initial

response is to respond in meekness. Now, this is a woman that if you'd asked me, I would not

have thought that about her. She looks to me to be like a woman who is great in meekness.

But in her heart, God was showing her, your heart responses initially are not ones of meekness.

She said, it might help if you let the ladies know when you come back to this subject,

that meekness is not something that happens overnight in your heart, that there is a process of sanctification.

And God takes us where we are, and then by the power of his spirit conforms and molds and shapes

us. So I'm here to tell you there is a process involved and I certainly know that out of my own life

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