The joy that the Lord gives you will make you strong in this situation.

Dr Tony Evans talks about finding our way back to faith when we wandered away from the Lord.

Even though you feel bad about all the time you lost,

all the pain you've gone through, all the circumstances,

if you get back God's joy, you'll get back, your strength.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr Tony Evans.

When a person or a nation makes the decision to turn to God,

Dr. Evans says there are three steps needed to transform that idea into a reality.

Let's listen in as he explains what those steps are.

Many of us today have our own 9-11s,

our own invasions in our lives and in our worlds,

in our circumstances that we just don't know how to beat, how to overcome.

And so we've called for a sacred gathering.

And so did Nehemiah and Ezra in the book of Nehemiah.

Let me give you a little bit of history

to help understand how chapter 8 fits in

to what is taking place in Israel. Israel had been divided between the northern kingdom

and the southern kingdom. Because of the northern kingdom's rebellion against God,

in 722 BC, God allowed the Assyrians to come in and invade Israel as disciplinary action to his

rebellious people. The southern kingdom called Judah was to have learned the lesson

from the northern kingdom but they did not. So in 586 BC, God allowed the Babylonians to come in and invade the Southern Kingdom.

That's when you read in the book of Daniel that Daniel and the three Hebrew boys got captured by Nebuchaneda and the Babylonians.

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