Are there certain habits and attitudes you just can't seem to shake no matter how hard you try?

It's Monday, October 22nd, and we're glad you've joined us for Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss. Despite the many personal freedoms we enjoy in our country, many women still find themselves living in bondage to sin. But as we'll hear today, God's truth is

powerful and can set us free. Let's join Nancy Lee DeMoss as she talks with a small group of women

about finding freedom in Christ. One of the things that I've done over the years as I've spoken to women in conferences

is to ask them to fill out a little three by five card to tell us how we can pray for them.

And we ask them, what's a burden that's on your heart for your own life and what's a burden

that we can pray about in relation to your family?

Well, I've collected thousands of those cards over recent years,

and last night I pulled out off my computer a list of some of those prayer requests that I've written down and kept just to remind me of who it is that I'm talking to when I go to a conference and

as we look into each other's faces and eyes to realize that there's a lot more sometimes

inside of us than what meets the eye.

That's true of us here in this room today.

You're all smiling and nicely dressed and all look put together.

But the fact is in many of our hearts

and in all of our hearts in some way, there are needs, some of them very pressing.

And as I read through pages of those prayer requests last night, I was just reminded of the

fact that so many of us as Christian women are not really walking

in freedom.

There are issues of bondage, issues where we are so troubled.

Let me just read to you a selection of some of the ones that I read last night.

Many of them relate, as you might imagine, to issues of marriage and family relationships.

Ones like these, I am so lonely and empty inside. My marriage is almost ended, and I am afraid.

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