Nancy DeMas Walgamuth knows busy moms are always on the job.

You just wish there was like one little place in the whole world that you could get away from the crowd.

You say, I know, I'll go in the bathroom, right?

And then these little fingers come under the door and they go, mommy.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgamuth, author of A Place of Quiet Rest.

For January 3rd, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

You know, Nancy covers a lot of topics on Reviver Hearts, but she often says that if she could

only speak on one topic, it's the one we're about to hear. Nancy delivered this message at Moody Bible

Institute, and I hope it invites you to greater intimacy with God as we start out 2022.

I want to share what I believe is one of the most practical ways I know to seek God's heart

and to cultivate true spiritual hunger. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that I'm not sure it's possible to really know God

and to have that kind of deep hunger for him, apart from what I want to talk about this morning.

You see, spiritual hunger has to be cultivated. It has to be nourished.

It's really the opposite of physical hunger in a sense, because the more I eat physically,

the more full I am and the less hungry I am.

You get stuffed and finally just don't want anything more to eat.

Spiritual hunger I have found works just the opposite way.

The more you feed your spiritual hunger, the hunger you're going to eat. Spiritual hunger I have found works just the opposite way. The more you feed your spiritual

hunger, the hungrier you get. So if you're not spiritually hungry and you really are a child of God,

it may be that you've not been feeding yourself. Because the more I eat, the more I want, the more

hungry I am for God.

I've said many times over the years that if I could only share one message with the women

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