When you're healthy and growing, it's natural to want to eat.

Nancy DeMas Walgamoos says the same thing is true when it comes to your Bible.

The evidence that you belong to God, that you have been made righteous through faith in Jesus Christ,

is that you have an appetite for God's work.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walkers, author of A Place of Quiet

Rest for January 7th, 2026.

I'm Dana Gresh.

Nancy's on day five of a series called How to Have a Happy New Year.

According to Psalm 1, what you think about, what you mull over, what you meditate on,

that may help explain why you are or aren't a happy person. Let me read in Psalm 1 beginning with verse 1.

Blessed or happy is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of

sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight, or that word could be translated,

his pleasure is in the law of the Lord, and on his delight, or that word could be translated, his pleasure is in the law of the Lord,

and on his law he meditates day and night. We're talking at the beginning of this new year

about this psalm that tells us how to be blessed, how to be happy, how to have a happy new year,

how to have a happy life, how to be a blessed person.

And we've talked about what the righteous don't do. They don't walk in the council of the

wicked. They don't stand in the way of sinners. They don't sit in the seat of scoffers.

But today we come to verse two that reminds us it's important to know what the righteous do do.

It's not enough to say no to the way of the ungodly.

We need also to say yes to the ways of God.

It's not enough to decline the delicacies that this world has to offer us,

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