It's a book that is alive and it's not like buying a new appliance for your house.

It's doing stuff.

Kelly Needham says your Bible should be affecting you, changing you.

When you read God's word, you spend time in it, it's doing things in you.

Welcome to the Revive Our Hearts Podcast for September 2nd, 2024.

I'm Dana Gresch.

Our host is the author of A Place of Quiet Rest.

Nancy De Moss Walgamuth.

Well, we're going to be talking today about one of my very favorite subjects. And to introduce that, I want to read

two sentences to you, and I want you to think about, if you think they're true, and how they might

apply in your life.

Here's the first sentence.

The people or things I spend the greatest amount of time with

influence me the most. Let me read that again. The people or things I spend the

greatest amount of time with influence me the most. Would you say that's true in your

life? I choose to do what I most want to do. Now I know you

may feel like your time is not really your own and you can't do what you truly

want to do all the time. I get that. But our desires, our

once do drive us and where we hang out will influence our thinking and our

behavior. I think that relates to something we read in

2 Corinthians chapter 3 where the Apostle Paul says we all with unveiled faces

are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being

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