Heaven Rules: Take courage. Take comfort. Our God is in control.

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Nancy: While Katie was still in labor, Nathan’s mom texted me with an update on the situation. Beneath her message was a picture Nathan had sent her. It was an image of a whiteboard on the wall in Katie’s hospital room. Across the top of the board, Nathan had written a message with a red marker. God wants to use your trial, your battle, to train you. So don’t run from it. You see, it’s in the midst of trials that God provides for us opportunities to grow, opportunities to see God’s power. Those trials, those battlefield experiences, put us in a place where we most need God, where we’re desperate for Him. Here’s the setting: It’s a flood. This is some kind of overwhelming circumstance. I mean, you think of a flood . . . I’ve never actually been in a flood, but I’ve known people who went through a flood and have described the sensation of just barely being able to keep your head above water, this sense of desperation, the sense of disaster, the sense of drowning, the sense of, “I can’t breathe!” Let me just remind you that God is giving you grace today for what you are experiencing today. So when Nathan and Katie had to face this difficult circumstance, God gave them grace for that, in that moment. And that leads me to the Word of God. If you have a Bible, I want to encourage you to open to the book of Psalms, Psalm chapter 29. I want you to see this, be able to read it for yourself. And I want to focus on the last two verses of this psalm that have been my go-to verses in recent months.

During the summer Robert had what turned out to be another cancer. We thought it might be related to the first, but it turned out that it wasn't. So we went from melanoma to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and has been through several months of chemo treatments. But as we've been sharing all along, it looks like the chemo has really been working.

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So, here’s Daniel, he’s a man of utmost integrity. His opponents put his life under a microscope. “We’re sure we’re going to find some dirt on him. We’re sure were going find something wrong.” But they cannot find a single wit of evidence to support their charges or to accuse him of any wrongdoing or inconsistency. The end of a really crazy year is closing in! I think 2020 will go down in the books as a difficult, sad, bizarre time period. But for many of us, it’s also been a time of readjusting our perspectives and reexamining our priorities. Today and tomorrow on Revive Our Hearts, we want to bring you one of our most-listened-to series of 2020. Recorded last May, here’s our host, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. Using the timeless book and example of Daniel as a guide, author Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth reveals how seeing our lives and world through the lens of Heaven's rule can shield us from panic and give us renewed hope and perspective.

In fact, verse 3 tells us the God of glory thunders. God thunders. He’s not just speaking quietly. He wants to make Himself known. He’s revealing Himself. He’s revealing His mind, His heart. Not everything. We won’t know everything about Him this side of eternity, but God is speaking. It took a while to even comprehend such a thing, crying out to God to not let it be so! God’s presence met us in that triage room and fed us with Scriptures that He would be with us in the hardest of times and that He loved us and that He loved our children.For all of the miraculous works God performed through and for Daniel, it’s important to note that God never delivered Daniel from Babylon. Daniel lived his entire [adult] life as an exile in a foreign land, as a hostage in a culture that was hostile to his faith. The fact is: Nobody knows. In fact, Robert and I talked about this the other day. He said, “So many unknowns, but what really matters is known fully.”