Nancy DeMas-Woglou says times of testing help you answer these questions about your relationship

with God.

Will you trust him when you cannot see him?

When your emotions tell you he's not there, when your circumstances are painful.

Will you trust God when you're in impossible situations where you have no human resources to meet your needs.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamo, author of Brokenness, The Heart God Revives.

For August 25th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Here's Nancy, continuing the series, walking through life's deserts.

I got a phone call last night from a friend that I hadn't talked to in a while, and she just illustrated what we've been saying in this series

on the desert. She told me about an experience she just had where God had really used her.

She's been teaching on modesty to the young women in her area, and she's been doing these

modesty fashion shows. It's really a neat idea, and bringing moms and daughters together to show them what

modesty looks like and to promote the concept of modesty. And she was so excited over this last

experience that they just had. And then she told me that I think it was like the next day or

within a couple days after this experience. She got a letter that just kind of blew her out of the water.

It wasn't what she was expecting.

It was critical.

It was somebody who didn't understand what she was trying to do.

And she said, I spent 10 days just in the dumps over this whole thing, from the mountaintop down to the pits.

And I said to her, I've just been teaching

this series on the desert. And you just illustrated what we've been saying, that sometimes

these desert experiences in our lives come right on the heels of the times of greatest,

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