Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth says every mom needs to be filled with God's love. If you neglect your

relationship with him, and I know you know this, then your love for your children will wane.

Because Christ is the source of love. And if you're not letting him fill you with his love,

then you're going to come to the place where your love runs out.

And you're going to be just churning it out, just grin and bear it, just sheer grit and determination.

But you're not going to be able to do it with joy and with peace if you're not staying connected to the vine where you get real life.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamut, author of Adorned, for Monday,

March 13, 2017.

The Bible is a practical book.

Listeners have been discovering how a passage in Titus will transform their marriages and their parenting.

If you've missed any of our series on Titus 2, you can hear past broadcasts at revive our hearts.com.

We're talking about women learning to love their children, and I want to take a little

detour today into a different passage of scripture.

We've been in Titus Chapter 2 for some weeks now, but I want to direct your attention to

First Thessalonians, Chapter 2.

You may want to turn there, First Thessalonians chapter two, because we're going to

walk through the first 12 verses of this passage. Someday I'd love to do a whole series on this text,

but today I just want to give you an overview of a passage that is not specifically about

parenting, but I think it has a lot of practical principles that can be applied to this whole

issue of parenting. Paul had been involved in the founding of the church in Thessalonica,

and now he was writing to those believers. He cared for them as he would for his own children.

Paul had a parent's heart. He had a father's heart for

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