Most of us don't like thinking about dying, but John Avant says it all boils down to a matter of what we really believe.

There is supernatural power through the spirit available to us to love and trust God no matter what.

Because Jesus took all of our anxiety, our fear, our death. Jesus took it all. And I don't have to cower in that fear.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For May 18, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

Well, we sure do hear a lot of statistics these days about death rates.

But the sobering fact is that the overall death rate is in fact 100%.

Isn't that right, Nancy?

It is, Dana.

I've thought a lot about that over this past year or so, as there has been so much talk

about death and just thinking, we need to think about death.

I don't know when I'll die, but I know that I will die.

And same for every listener. The sweet news of the gospel, though, is found in Hebrews chapter two

where it says that Jesus came to destroy the one who has the power of death. That is the devil.

And deliver all those who through fear of

death were subject to lifelong slavery. I know a lot of people feel enslaved by the fear of death.

But as we'll hear from our guest today, if you're a child of God, you have nothing to fear.

John and Donna Avant are good friends of mine.

John is the president of Life Action, the branch of our ministry that includes our traveling

road teams and the Life Action Camp.

And he served for many years as a pastor of a church in Knoxville, Tennessee.

His wife, Donna, serves alongside of him.

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