Nancy DeMas Walgamuth asks a penetrating question.

How serious are you about becoming a grounded woman of God?

Let me assure you that you will never drift into spiritual maturity.

It won't just happen.

You have to be diligent.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walkman.

Author of Holiness, The Heart God Purifies.

For November 16th, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

Yesterday on Revive Our Hearts, we heard part one of Nancy's closing message from Revive 21.

If you missed it, you can review that episode on the Revive Our Hearts app or at Revive Our Hearts.com.

Nancy left off in a list from 2 Peter chapter 1, a list of seven virtues we need to add to our faith.

Let's listen to Part 2. Here's Nancy. Okay, add to your endurance. Number five, godliness. Godliness, a God-centered life, an attitude of reverence, devotion toward God, a desire to please

him in every area of our lives, to orient our whole life around him.

Paul says in 1st Timothy chapter 4, train yourself in godliness, Work out in the godliness gym. For the training

of the body has limited benefit. My dad used to tell us, it doesn't say it has no benefit. It has

some benefit. But godliness is beneficial in every way, since it holds promise for the present

life and also for the life

to come. Godliness has a price. Training, working out, sweating, it's hard. But it doesn't just have a

price. It also has a promise. It's valuable both in this life and in the life to come. Now, that godliness

doesn't just happen magically or by some mystical experience. You pay money, you come to

a conference like this, I'm going to go home and I'm going to be godly. Listen, if you don't

exercise physically, if you don't develop physical muscles, you'll become

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