Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth says God can make things grow even if it seems impossible.

The spirit can produce life and growth in places that would otherwise be barren,

where nothing could live apart from the presence of God.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of

Brokenness for March 21st, 2019.

Nancy's going to tell us where we can turn in those barren seasons of our lives.

She's in day two of a series called Where the River Flows.

We're looking over these two days at one of the most difficult passages in God's Word,

but also one of the most rewarding.

And sometimes we tend to skip over these passages because they can be so hard to grasp.

But I've had a joy over a period of time of digging into this passage over and over and over

again, handling it, looking at it, meditating on it, coming back to it years later.

And the Word of God is so rich, and the Spirit of God

lives in us to help us get God's truth. So I have not plumbed the depths of this passage at all.

I feel like I'm still really on the surface, but I want you to enjoy with me what God has

been saying to my own heart as I've been studying here in Ezekiel chapter 47 the first 12 verses and we said in the last session that

this is a prophetic parable or picture of the progress the advance the spread of the

gospel into the world a picture of the presence or the work of God's spirit moving throughout the world,

but not just in the world, but also in our own hearts and in our churches. It's a picture of this

river that starts as a trickle, but it brings much life and growth and fruitfulness and healing.

And so we saw yesterday the starting place or the source for this river is the temple,

the altar of God, the place where God is present with his people.

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