Today on Revive Our Hearts, Dr. Karen Ellis helps us to get to know the poet, Phyllis Wheatley.

By all accounts, as an African and a woman and a slave, Wheatley should have remained voiceless in the post-colonial world and surround her.

Yet she managed to be instrumental in both the temporal

revolution and the eternal one.

This is radical.

She takes what they have to offer her theologically, and then she uses it biblically to

hold up the gospel mirror to their faces.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamo, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For May 9, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

Thank you. 2021. I'm Dana Gresh. Sprinkle throughout this month of May, we're taking a look at some women that God has used in

extraordinary ways in the past. Now, as I've shared with you before, I love Christian biographies, and I'm

inspired by the lives of these women. But I know as we learn about them, it's easy to think, well,

my life is so ordinary or subordinary. There's no way God could use me to make a significant

difference in the lives of others.

And as our team was setting up this program today, I was reminded of that passage

in 1 Corinthians chapter 1, the end of 1 Corinthians 1, says, God has chosen what is foolish

in the world. God has chosen what is weak in the world. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world,

what is viewed as nothing, to bring to nothing what is viewed as something. So that, here's the

bottom line, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus.

You see, God chooses and uses simple,

ordinary people who believe in an extraordinary God. In fact, just this past week I was reading

in the book of Hebrews, I came to Chapter 11, that amazing passage that many call the Hall of Faith.

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