As we eat food we get less hungry but reading the Bible is just the opposite.

Here's Nancy De Masfalgar. You may not feel very hungry spiritually but if you will eat anyway

if you will partake of the word of God, you'll find that your hunger grows. It increases. This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast with Nancy Demas Welklers,

author of A Place of Quiet Rest.

For January 9, 2024, I'm Dana Gresch. We've been in a series this week and last called Getting into the Word and Getting the Word into you.

Nancy's been giving us some helpful techniques for understanding the Bible,

and those techniques won't do any good if you don't open it up and read it. We're about to hear how to cultivate a

hunger for God's word. Most of you're familiar with the name of George Mueller. He was a

man of great faith. He was a man of prayer. He was used by God in a significant way to establish many orphanages throughout England in the 1800s.

But George Mueller was also a man who loved the Word of God.

In one of his journals he said I believe that the one chief

reason I have been kept in happy useful service is that I have been a lover of

holy scripture. It has been my habit to read the Bible through four times a year.

In a prayerful spirit to apply it to my heart and practice what I find there. I have been for 69 years a happy man, happy, happy, happy,

happy. I love that. And when I have been at the place where I've walked with the Lord for 69 years, I want to look back and say for these 69 years I have been a happy woman.

Happy, happy, happy, happy, kept for God in useful service. Isn't that what you want?

You want to be useful for God, you want to serve Him, you want to be faithful, you want

to make it all the way to the finish line line and you want to find a light in your relationship

with the Lord.

George Mueller said the one main thing to which I attribute my lifelong happiness is that I've

been a lover of the word of God. I'm reminded of the

Psalm we've looked at several times throughout this series Psalm 119 and I would encourage

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