When life just seems awful and you don't know when it will all end,

think about eternity.

Here's Johnny Erickson Tata.

One day, friend, all this is going to be behind us.

All the disease, the disability, the disappointment, the heartache, the suffering and affliction. One day it's all going to seem like some long ago, far away, half-forgotten dream.

And I want you when you depart Earth and head for heaven,

when your spirit rises up out of your tired and weary body.

I want, I envision the entire universe of

Angelic hosts standing erect and holding their breath and respect as your soul

goes by, they will salute and amazement as your spirit ascends like a sweet

smelling savor to God.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Friday, November 15th. How do you respond when circumstances are pressing in on you, and it feels like your world is spinning out of control?

Well, the way that we act in those times affects those around us.

We can lift them up or we can pull them down into the mire with us.

I'm so thankful for a number of people that the Lord has used to pull me up in some very difficult seasons,

to encourage me when I thought I might be going under.

I think perhaps the number one person who comes to

mind who's been that kind of friend in my life is Johnny Erickson Tata. When I think about the

circumstances she lives in and the hardship that she goes through physically after 47 years in a

wheelchair as a quadriplegic, and then I see her singing hymns and praising the

Lord. I have this wake-up moment. Like, what am I doing down here in the pits? What am I doing

being depressed or discouraged? And my heart is so strengthened and made glad when I see Johnny rejoicing in the Lord.

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