Hannah Leary has memorized a lot of Bible verses. A lot.

Remember now your creator in the days of your youth.

Before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you say,

I have no pleasure in them.

One reason she learned these verses was to participate in a competition,

but she says the real value of all that scripture memory has less

to do with winning a contest and more to do with life itself. Just to have that word living and

active in my own heart and the Lord using it to speak to my life and yes, life gets complicated

and life is hard and there's decisions

and there's confusion. But really the Word of God is so simple and he just wants us to love

him, to know him, and then to make him known to this world. This is the Revive Our Hearts

podcast with Nancy DeMoss Wogamuth, co-author of Seeking Him for April 25, 2018.

Every year, thousands of families participate in an exciting scripture memory program

called the National Bible Bee. Recently, Nancy sat down to talk about the Bible Bee with the

Benham brothers, Jason and David, along with

Hannah Leary, a young lady who shares their excitement for the Bible Bee.

Each of these guests has served as co-hosts for the Bible Bee's televised national competition.

Let's join their conversation.

Well, I've been following the National Bible Bee for a number of years,

and when the national competition comes on in late fall, November, December, I sit there glued

to my laptop watching the live stream. I've done this for a number of years and just thinking,

I wish I had been able to do this when I was a kid. I would have been all about

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