Walking through Life’s Deserts, Ep. 5
Revive Our Hearts
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Nancy DeMas Walgamoos says time and testing will help you answer this question about your relationship with God. |
| 0:07.0 | And so when we make wrong choices, God disciplines us. Because he hates us? No, because he loves us. He wants to make us holy. He wants to make us like Jesus. If you're a child of God, you can't get away from the discipline of God. |
| 0:22.4 | This is the Reviveiver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgoon, author of Choosing Gratitude. |
| 0:28.7 | For August 22nd, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh. |
| 0:44.7 | This week, Nancy's giving us important counsel on handling dry times. |
| 0:50.5 | We're continuing in the helpful series called Walking Through Life's Deserts. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, have I got you depressed yet? |
| 0:56.8 | All this talk about the desert and how hard it is. |
| 1:00.7 | If you're not in a desert, you're thinking, what in the world is she talking about? Well, I just want you to know that I'm preparing you for something that's coming up ahead because you can't live the |
| 1:05.7 | Christian life for any length of time and not find yourself at times in deserts. But I want to address the question today, |
| 1:13.6 | how in the world do we end up in the desert? How do we get there? Why does God take us there? |
| 1:20.0 | And over the next several sessions, we'll talk about some of God's purposes in the desert. |
| 1:23.9 | But today, how do we end up in the desert? And I want to suggest there are two primary ways that we end up in a desert. But today, how do we end up in the desert? And I want to suggest there are two primary ways |
| 1:28.9 | that we end up in a desert. Sometimes we end up in this desert experience because God is |
| 1:37.5 | disciplining us. Sometimes it's God's discipline that takes us there. That means we're in the desert as a consequence of our own wrong choices. |
| 1:49.3 | God said, don't. |
| 1:50.6 | We said, I will. |
| 1:52.6 | And God said, okay, here are the consequences. |
| 1:56.0 | You make choices in life, every choice you make in life. |
| 1:58.5 | I don't care how old you are, how godly you are, how not godly you are, every choice you make in life, I don't care how old you are, how godly you are, how not godly you are, |
| 2:01.8 | every choice you make in life has consequences. And you choose to do it God's way. We have some high school |
| 2:07.3 | gals here with us today. And you girls are making a lot of choices at this season of life. |
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