As a speaker, Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth always wants the Lord to help her live out what she's teaching.

Women don't need to know so much what I know.

They can go read the same books.

They need to be impacted by the Holy Spirit working through a life that is committed to what I'm teaching them.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Thursday, September 1st, 2016.

We've been in the middle of a series called The Lord's Prayer.

That series will continue this month, but we're taking

a two-day break to celebrate a big birthday. On September 3rd, 2001, the very first Revive Our Hearts

program went on the air. As a probably 12 or 13-year-old girl, somehow I came across some writing, some accounts of how God had moved in the history of the church to quicken and awaken the church so that they had a new passion for Christ and a new effectiveness.

The first series was called Getting to Know Nancy.

Bob Lapine from Family Life Today interviewed this new voice on the radio.

And Nancy, in the 15 years since, our listeners have gotten to know you and you've gotten to know them.

And what a privilege that's been, Leslie.

And to me, the most important thing is that our listeners

expect to hear from the Lord each weekday. They expect to be challenged and know his word

and hear ways of putting it into practice. I am so, so grateful to the Lord for the way his presence

has been with this ministry every single day over these past 15 years.

And this program has continued because of his strength, his enabling, and his provision.

So we're thanking him, we're celebrating all that he's done as we lead up to this 15th birthday

of the program on Saturday. And as we near that milestone today and tomorrow, we're going to

hear a message that I gave to some supporters of the ministry explaining 10 things that I want to

be true of revive our hearts. Now, as you'll hear, these marks of ministry are things like being

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