When we're watching a movie, we expect the characters to face some challenges.

In fact, it's not really much of a movie without those plot twists.

Those plot twists are what make an interesting story.

But in real life, we don't like them.

We want to avoid all of those challenges.

Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth says there's a solution.

Pain is painful. It's never not painful.

Suffering hurts. It's hard.

And when we're in the midst of some unexpected plot twist in our own lives, I'll just speak for myself,

I'm not always peaceful and grateful and, you know, calm and collected.

Sometimes I feel frantic or frazzled or frustrated

or upset or angry or whatever. But believing the right things about God really does

incredibly prepare us to face hardship.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, along with Dana Gresh for September 3rd, 2019.

So what's your story?

Have there been plot twists that you didn't expect?

Were there chapters you regret and wish they'd just been written differently?

This month on Revive Our Hearts, we're going to explore the topic of trusting God to write your story.

You're going to hear some very important teaching from Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth on the Providence of God.

God works in unexpected, unexplainable ways to accomplish his purposes. He's not random. He works in ways that are unexpected and unexplainable to us, but he's always working to accomplish

purposes that he has in mind. We should not expect God to write our story the way we would write it.

And then you're going to hear the stories of some amazing women whose stories contain some dark chapters, some painful chapters,

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