Here's Nancy DeMas Walgamuth with a caution for anyone who's busy doing things for the Lord.

You ever find yourself justifying small, incremental compromises? Not the big things,

but things that before you got so busy you would have not thought were okay. And now you let

him go because you don't have time to deal with them it's a sign of

losing that first love maybe when we're working harder to protect our public image than to protect

our private personal inner character this is the revive our hearts podcast with nancy damas walgou, author of Lies Women Belief and The Truth That Sets Them Free.

For October 29, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

We all have a tendency to drift from a close relationship with the Lord when life gets busy.

Nancy, I appreciate the openness in which you talk about struggles in this area and the great

encouragement you've provided.

Nancy, can you describe the setting of the message we're about to hear?

The National Religious Broadcasters holds an annual convention that I attend, along with several from our Reviver Hearts team.

And at this particular convention, I was asked to speak at the women's luncheon.

Most of the women who attend this particular luncheon are involved in various types of media

ministry.

And I knew that a lot of the people I'd be speaking to that day were high-powered women

who live very busy lives.

In the months leading up to that convention, the Lord had been doing a fresh and much-needed

work in my own heart of calling me to enter into a deeper level of intimacy with him in the

midst of my very busy life. So as this speaking opportunity approached, I just felt prompted by the

Lord to share very transparently and honestly out of my own life how the Lord had been dealing

with me. As we share with you the message I gave at the luncheon that day,

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