If the events of the past week have shown us anything, it's that none of us is in control.

In an amazingly short period of time, the coronavirus has reminded us of the brevity and the

preciousness of life. It's reminded us of gifts that we often take for granted, like full shelves

in the grocery stores, the ability to sit in a restaurant, and the ability to gather

in our churches. You know, there's so many good things that we can enjoy in more normal times,

sports, food, education, retirement funds. These can all be really good gifts from God. But when

they're changed, when they're removed, when they disappear, what's left? That's

when we're reminded that our hope and our satisfaction ultimately come from a relationship with God

himself. I'm Nancy DeMoss-Wagamuth, and this is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday,

March 17th.

Today's program is going to sound a little different.

In light of what's going on around us, we made a decision just yesterday to change the program we had scheduled to air today.

I'm actually recording this opening at my home instead of in our regular studio.

But as our world faces so much uncertainty, we wanted to focus all our hearts on what it means to trust in the Lord when the storms of life come.

So we're going to air a program that we last heard

in 2013 called A Mighty Fortress is Our God. You may hear a few dated references in this series

that begins today, but I'm so glad that the truth of God's word never changes. And as we face medical fears and economic fears, we can lean

entirely on Christ as our fortress and our strength. As we began this teaching, first recorded

a number of years ago, I started by mentioning a personal storm that I was going through at that time.

Let me give you just a little bit of background.

Over the last several years now, since True Woman 08,

the first True Woman conference we had in Schaumburg, Illinois,

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