Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth knows what it's like to try working from her own strength.

I confess that sometimes I find myself straining really hard to bear fruit.

Trying to be this fragrant, fruitful, godly, sweet-spirited, loving, godly woman, right?

It can kill you.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walglamuth, author of A Place of Quiet

Rest. It's Thursday, March 10th, 2016.

For the last few weeks, Nancy's been taking us verse by verse through the song of songs. It's been a

meaningful study, one that will make you fall in love with your bridegroom all over again.

In fact, this series is called How to Fall and Stay in Love with Jesus. Nancy's written

some follow-up questions to today's teaching. You can get them in a booklet

our team is put together with the same title as the series. We'll send you a copy when you

make a donation of any size at revive our hearts.com. Here's Nancy. Well, we come today in our

series on the Song of Songs to what may be my personal favorite passage in the whole

book. I don't know. I tend to love whichever one I'm teaching at the moment. They're all my

favorites, but this one has really blessed me in a great way over the years, and I'm excited for us to

look at it together today. In this passage, beginning in Song of Songs chapter 4, verse 12, we see a powerful and a lovely

picture of how Christ views his church and what he desires to be true of our lives as well.

Now, the bridegroom is the one speaking here.

He's been speaking all through chapter four, and he likens his bride to a garden.

This is the first of nine references to gardens in the Song of Solomon, and five of those references

are found in this passage that we're looking at today, and then others in the Song of Solomon. And five of those references are found

in this passage that we're looking at today,

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