Lauren Chandler reminds you that God is more important than your own ease and comfort.

I want a pain-free life. I don't want to suffer, and I don't want to see the people I love suffer.

But more than I want a pain-free life and more than I don't want suffering. I want him.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Walkalmuth, author of A Place of Quiet

Rest for Friday, July 28, 2017.

Yesterday Yesterday, we heard part one of a message from Lauren Chandler. She talked about the steadfast love of the Lord from Psalm 107, one of my favorite psalms.

We all need to lean on the Lord when we fail, when other people fail us, and when life's

circumstances seem overwhelming. Lauren is the wife of Pastor Matt Chandler from the Village

Church in the Dallas area. She knows the pressures that come from feeling weak, from dealing

with tough situations with people, and from crises that arise

in the course of everyday life. But she's here to remind us, we can always lean on the steadfast

love of the Lord. Now, here's Lauren talking about Psalm 107, and if you're in a place where you

can do that, I'd encourage you to open your Bible

and follow along. Part of that passage says, let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has

redeemed from trouble. Lauren reminds us that we have an enemy who wants to use trouble

to discourage us from seeking the Lord. Here's Lauren.

And then it goes on and says, redeemed from trouble.

There's a footnote at the bottom of my Bible that says, hand of the foe.

Just as God has a plan for us, so does the enemy.

He has a plan to steal, kill and to destroy he wants to render us ineffective

in the kingdom he wants to mar the image of god in us and he wants to keep us spiritually deaf and blind

first peter five eight says be sober-minded. Be watchful. Your adversary. The devil prowls around

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