The Well-Watered Woman, with Gretchen Saffles, Ep. 2

Revive Our Hearts

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

You and I have an amazing tendency to take perfectly good blessings from God and turn them into God-substitutes. As Gretchen Saffles puts it, we start trying to drink from empty wells. We need to return to Jesus, the Fountain of living waters.

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0:00.0	Gretchen Saffles found that when it came to her home, she was often using it to try to impress others.
0:05.1	I had to take a step back and go, God, this house is not mine.
0:09.9	This house is yours.
0:11.4	I will decorate it and I will enjoy that.
0:14.1	But ultimately, it's just a building and I want to steward it and I want it to be a place of ministry.
0:21.4	This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy De be a place of ministry. This is the Revive Our Heart's podcast with Nancy DeMoss Waldermud,
0:24.9	author of Lies, Women Believe and the Truth That Sets Them Free.
0:28.6	For October 23rd, 2025, I'm Dana Grash.
0:44.9	Nancy, yesterday you mentioned something that made me think that maybe you don't have a green thumb.
0:53.1	I don't have a green anything when it comes to plants. I have beautiful things in my house, but they're all fake. Yeah. Actually, some of them look so real. I had
0:57.2	somebody go and put up her nose next to one. I'd say, she's sniffing it. I'm going, that's not real.
1:03.3	She goes, she says, yes, it is, but it isn't. This is the things we tell ourselves. I have a plant in my
1:10.4	house that I call my favorite.
1:11.6	Do you know why it's my favorite?
1:12.6	Tell me.
1:13.6	It tells me when it needs water.
1:15.6	Come on.
1:16.6	It's a piece lily, and they wilt heavily when they're thirsty, and you give them a little water, and they
1:24.6	come back to life.
1:25.6	Yep.
1:26.6	Revive our flowers. Revive our flowers, exactly. But it's a reminder of me every single
1:32.0	time I do it that when my spirit isn't in the living water of Jesus Christ and the word
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