Why should you read the Bible every day? Here's Nancy DeMas Walgamuth.

Your relationship with God will never be any stronger. It will never be any more vibrant.

It will never be any more genuine than your relationship with the Word of God.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgand, author of A 30-day Walk

with God in the Psalms.

For June 17th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Nancy has an important challenge for you.

She's about to share it in a series called Revive Me According to Your Word, Reflections

on Psalm 119.

She explains that she heard that Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis starts each year off

with an annual prayer week.

It's the first week of the year, the first week of January, and they start the year out as a church

in a time of corporate prayer and seeking the Lord.

Bethlehem was the church where John Piper was pastor for many years.

And Pastor Piper said in a sermon on the first Sunday of the year, a number of years ago, as he was

introducing that week, he said, prayer and meditating on the Word of God are like parallel rails

that enable the train of our souls to stay on the track that leads to holiness and heaven.

He said, we need to renew our zeal for prayer and Bible meditation at the beginning of the year. Everything gets old and worn and weak

without reawakening and renewal and restoration. Do you agree with that? You just think about, you know, you come to the end

of a year and you're feeling at times old and worn and weak. Sometimes it's physically, sometimes it's

spiritually. And we need reawakening and renewal and restoration, which is why I love the new year.

It's a chance to take a deep breath and refocus and

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