When Gretchen Saffles was in college, she and some friends were mentored by a woman who knew the importance of a personal relationship with God.

She called us to a deeper walk with the Lord, and she modeled that for us.

Instead of spoon-feeding us, she handed us a spiritual fork and said, go taste and see that God is good

in the word. This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of A Place

of Quiet Rest. For January 5th, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

After all that holiday feasting, a lot of us try to get on some kind of plan to help us shed some pounds.

I know I am.

Today, Gretchen Saffles points out that there's an important plan we should implement for getting in better spiritual shape. And it

actually involves feasting. Feasting, that is, on God's word. Gretchen's a wife, a mom,

an author. During the pandemic, Nancy and I sat down virtually with Gretchen

to get to know her better. And I think you'll benefit from hearing her passion for getting

God's word into us and getting us into God's word.

I would love to know how you first came to know about Reviver Hearts and interact with Reviver Hearts. I like to hear your Reviver Heart story. Oh, this is going to be fun. So I was in high

school and I started listening to the program.

I knew that God was calling me to girls ministry and women's ministry someday. And so I went to

the internet, did some searching, found Revive Our Hearts and fell in love with the ministry.

And I actually, my senior year of high school, I contacted Reviver Hearts. I wrote a letter and just

shared my passion and just desired to learn and to grow and serve women. And Nancy wrote a

handwritten letter back and she probably doesn't remember that. I remember getting it in the mail and

just being wowed that

she would write me that letter and so encouraged to follow the Lord wherever he was leading me.

And ever since then, I have been listening to Revive Our Hearts and using the resources and

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