Nancy DeMas Walgamuth reminds us of an important truth.

God is sovereign over all history, over all kings, over all rulers, over all kingdoms.

No king or ruler or kingdom can thwart the will of God.

You've heard me say it many times, and I want to say it here again.

Heaven rules.

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

For January 4th, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh. Just who were the mysterious visitors that showed up to worship baby Jesus?

And what do they have to do with you and me?

That's something Nancy explores in this new series from Revive Our Hearts.

Here's Nancy.

Okay, let me invite you to open in your Bible if you're able to Matthew chapter 2, the

Gospel of Matthew, first book of the New Testament, chapter 2, verse 1.

You want to scroll there on your phone.

If you're driving, I would suggest you just listen, but I want to read from the Gospel of Matthew

beginning in verse 1. Now, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod

the king, behold, wise men, or some of your translations say, magi from the east came to Jerusalem. Some of you are thinking, hold on.

This is part of the Christmas story. So why are we talking about this in January? I just got all

my decorations put away. I don't think I want to hear about the wise men anymore. Well, our modern

day Christmas season begins, what, back sometime in October?

But in church history, the Christmas season started on December 25th, and then it continued

for 12 days.

So there really are 12 days of Christmas, December 25th through January 5th. And then that 12-day period

...