You might be tempted not to give God everything because it feels scary.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

There is no risk in depending wholly on God, laying everything on the line for his sake.

He will never, ever fail you.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Surrender,

The Heart God Controls.

For May 4th, 2023, I'm Dana Gresh.

Most of us don't think of ourselves as remarkable people.

We just live life and do what we need to do from day to day.

But all this month here on Revive Our Hearts, we're going to be looking closely at women who

surrendered to God's will for their lives no matter what. And they would have called themselves

unremarkable women, too. But God used them powerfully. Today's Unremarkable Woman is a great example.

Yesterday on Revive Our Hearts, Nancy took us to Luke chapter 1, and we looked at some of the details surrounding Elizabeth, who became the mother of John the Baptist, even though she was past childbearing age. Nancy called that scene one. Here she is speaking at the

Vertical Women Conference in Holland, Michigan. The second scene begins in verse 26, continues through

verse 38. I want to summarize that during the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, the angel Gabriel is sent to a young woman named

Mary, probably a young teenage girl, maybe 14 years of age. She had never been with a man. You have

Elizabeth, the older woman, who had been married for decades, and you have married this young

virgin, never married, never intimate with a man,

she's also promised that she's going to have a son, she's going to have a child.

Verse 34 of Luke 1, Mary said to the angel, how will this be since I am a virgin?

Both situations were impossible. Zachariah and Elizabeth couldn't have a baby. Mary couldn't

have a baby. How will this be? And the angel answered her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you.

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