Nancy DeMoss-Walgamu says, don't expect your life story to be smooth and easy. God rarely writes

tidy, neat, sanitized stories. He doesn't write boring stories, but he can be trusted to write them well.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Wgamut, author of Surrender, The Heart God Controls.

For March 23rd, 2026, I'm Dana Gresh.

Nancy and her late husband, Robert, wrote a precious book together not too long ago.

It's called You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

That's the topic of today's teaching.

Here's my friend, Nancy.

Well, often when Robert and I will strike up a conversation with someone we just met,

it could be someone at Lowe's or someone who's

come to drop something off at the house, the delivery man, or somebody who's shuttling us at an

airport. One of the things we'll say if we have more than just a minute is, so tell us your story.

Tell us your story. We love hearing people's stories. And actually, we've been

talking in the room here for the last 30 minutes or so before we started this session and just

hearing some of the stories of women in the room. And they're so different. Some of them are

like way different than mine. And your story is probably different than the woman sitting next to you.

But we love those stories. And we all have a story. I have a story. You have a story. Everyone has a story,

no matter what age you are, no matter what's your background. And your story is unlike anyone else's

story. Now, you may think, as we talk about your story is unlike anyone else's story. Now, you may think as we talk about your story,

well, there's nothing special about my story. I can't imagine that anybody would be interested

in hearing it. I just have a boring, ordinary story. Or you may be kind of on the other end of the scale and you think

my story is such a mess. I can't imagine that anybody would want to hear this. And I can't imagine

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