Nancy DeMas Walgamu says, when God is doing great things through you, expect difficulty to follow.

I find that in my own life, following times of pouring out on behalf of others, following times of ministry, following some great spiritual victories, that those are the times when I often face my greatest battle with temptation.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Heaving Rules.

For August 20th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Hikers who truck through the deserts spend months preparing. That's kind of like what Nancy's helping us do.

All of us will go through dry time spiritually.

And Nancy's helping us prepare for times like that with a series called Walking Through

Life's Deserts.

I was at a funeral not too long ago and ran into a woman that began sharing with me about

having been through some desert experiences recently in her life, and I knew about some of this,

but I'd not actually had a chance to talk with her about it.

She, over the past few years,

has lost seven family members, including her mother and her 28-year-old son in a tragic accident.

Her son was in the ministry. And then more recently, her mother-in-law, who she had a good

relationship with. And she was just talking with me about what it's been like over these last few years.

And it's been a desert.

It has been really, really hard.

Here's a woman who is serving the Lord full time.

She loves the Lord.

She is committed to him. She's being used

of the Lord. And it has been a really hard season of her life. And she said, you know, there's

nothing that can make it easy. No matter how godly you are, no matter how spiritual you are,

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