God is like the bright noonday sun that lights up everything. Here's Nancy DeMoss

Wogglemouth. When we're battling with the darkness, whether in our own heart or in our

homes or in our world, our natural tendency is to settle for artificial light, to settle for what

we can come up with, for ways to light our own darkness.

This is the Revive Our Hearts Podcasts for Thursday, December 24, 2015.

If you've ever had a long, difficult night, you know what relief it is to see the dawn finally come.

The sunrise changes everything.

Maybe that's why the priest, Zachariah, compared the coming of Christ to the dawn.

Nancy will tell us more about that today.

The teaching we're about to hear is being taken to all kinds of women in all kinds of situations.

A woman named Agnes wrote to tell us about a Revive Our Heart series that aired when she couldn't get out of the house.

She said, while it was airing, I was basically bedridden due to poor health. With that came a lot of discouragement and hopelessness.

It was during that time when Agnes was discouraged and bedridden that God used his word to

revive her heart. She said, through the teaching of Revive Our Hearts,

I feel I found the heart of God in the heart of His Word. I love that. She says, my love for the

Lord has grown as I've been blown away by God's love for me. Well, if you've supported Revive

Our Hearts, you've made it possible for us to share God's

word with Agnes and with countless other women in challenging real-life situations all around the world.

We're asking the Lord to continue calling women to freedom, fullness, and fruitfulness in Christ

through Revive Our Hearts in 2016.

But we can't do that without listeners like you.

And as we've been sharing for the last several weeks, when you support Revive Our Hearts this month,

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