If you want to produce spiritual fruit, Nancy DeMoss Waugamoo says,

If we're going to be effective servants of the Lord, if we're going to have something to give to others,

we have to cultivate and maintain a growing vital intimate love relationship with Christ.

There's no fruitfulness without union and community with Christ. This is the Rever Hearts podcast with Nancy Damas Walgamoo,

author of A Place of Quiet Rest.

For January 5th, 2023, I'm Danna Gresh. Are you hoping to be transformed this year?

In this first week of January, maybe one of the things you're thinking about is new goals

and how you spend time each day seeking the Lord and being in the Word and praying.

My husband and I have undertaken that journey to spend more time in the Word and I just want to encourage you that the peace that is ahead of you is incredible if you'll join us.

Nancy talked with the staff of Revive Our Hearts and our parent organization Life Action

Ministries a couple of years ago. She talked about developing a daily

devotional life or perhaps enhancing and reigniting a passion for that daily time

with God. We invite you to listen to this message as you make some decisions

about how you can grow in this area in 2023. Here's our host Nancy Demas

Walgemuth. Some time ago I was in a conference and on the opening Friday night of the conference,

a women's conference, I asked the women to fill out a prayer card and to tell us how we could

pray for them. What was on their heart? What were they believing God

to do in their lives that weekend? At the end of that weekend I took those

prayer cards and many of them, I don't know if it was all of them but read

through a lot of them and I don't know if it was all of them, but read through a lot of them, and I was just amazed

at a thread that ran through so many of those women's carts. Let me read to you what several of them said.

One said, I feel I'm out of control sometimes

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