According to Dana Gresh, our spiritual health is closely tied to remaining or staying in Christ and His Word.

The secret to fruitfulness is abiding, period. But if you abide, expect and accept the pruning.

You're listening to the Reviver Hearts podcast for January 12th, 2024.

I'm Nancy DeMoss Walgamoof.

If being pruned sounds scary or painful to you, keep listening, and we'll find out why it's so worth it.

Well, we're in the beginning part of the year right now, but I want you to think ahead

to July, or maybe all the way to the end of the year, December, six or 11 months or five

years down the road, where would you like to be in your relationship with God?

How would you like to see him using you? Have you set any spiritual

goals for your life? There was a time in Dana Gresh's life when she thought God would never use her

again. Yesterday on Revive Our Hearts, Dana told us that the enemy used shame from secret sin in her

past to lie to her. She honestly thought she would

never be of any use to God. Today she'll explain how the Lord freed her from bondage to that deception.

And I believe it'll be a huge encouragement to you as you think about how you'd like to grow in

your walk with him as well. If you have a copy

of your Bible nearby, go ahead and turn or scroll to John Chapter 15. And here's the co-host of Reviver

Hearts, Dana Gresh, speaking to students at her alma mater, Cedarville University. We're picking up

where Dana left off explaining how, when she was a girl, her mother encouraged

her to read the scriptures and to pray on a regular basis.

So my mom fostered this discipleship in me when I was eight years old.

So when I went to a missions conference at my church,

my spirit was very open to the spirit of God. And one day, you know, I walk into my church,

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