Nancy DeMoss Walgamu says the biblical character, Rahab, communicated something very important

by taking one small action.

Faith led her to obedience.

Her faith produced the fruit of obedience, and her obedience was precise, even in something

seemingly so insignificant and trivial as hang this cord outside your window.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Brokenness, The Heart God Revives.

For August 6th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

Music I'm Dana Gresh. Do you ever feel like God couldn't possibly love you?

Well, stop what you're doing.

Listen, as Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth gives hope to everyone, despite any past sins.

She's in a series called Rehab and The Thread of Redemption.

Well, I love this story of Rehab that we're studying in this series because she is such an awesome picture of the great redeeming God we have.

And we see in her life and in this account some hints of the gospel,

hints of the way that Christ came to this earth to redeem sinners.

And we're going to see that as we continue in this story.

If you're following along in your Bible, we're in the book of Joshua chapter 2, and Rahab has just told the two spies who've come to her house. Rehab is a

prostitute by background, but we're seeing that faith has been planted in her heart. It's not

clear to us whether she was still involved in prostitution at this point.

Commentators disagree on that, and I think the reason is because we don't know for sure what

the timeline in her life was. But the more I study this passage, the more I believe that in the

recent past, she had come to place her faith in the God of Israel, based on the story she had heard, just limited

information. Faith had been awakened, quickened within her heart, and I believe she was,

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