Quadriplegic Johnny Erick Sentata was experiencing intense pain, and she needed assistance.

And that's when in the dark I drew a deep breath and I screamed,

Help! Help me!

And the house was silent.

Now my heart was racing, because I was in terrible trouble.

We'll find out what happened today on the Revive Our Hearts podcast.

It's January 16th, 2023.

I'm Dana Gresh, and our host is the author of Heaven Rules, Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

Over and over, day after day, in a variety of ways here at Revive Our Hearts, we're always seeking to encourage you to get into God's Word and to let God's Word get into you.

Now, why do we put such an emphasis on that? Well, there are a lot of reasons. As we soak our minds in the scriptures, we're going to get to know God better. And what more

important thing is there in all of our lives than knowing God? And as we soak in scripture,

we're going to see ourselves as we knowing God. And as we soak in Scripture, we're going to see ourselves

as we really are. And also, we're going to be helped to see our circumstances with more

of an eternal perspective. You've often heard me quote the well-known 19th century English preacher,

the one I call my friend Charles Spurgeon.

Here's how he expressed what we've just been talking about. He said, oh, that you and I might get

into the very heart of the word of God and get that word into ourselves. And then he uses, as he often

did, an illustration that is so vivid, he said,

as I've seen the silkworm eat into the leaf and consume it, so ought we to do with the word of the

Lord, not crawl over its surface, but eat right into it till we have taken it into our inmost parts. Can you just

picture that? We don't want to just crawl over the surface of the Word of God. We want to chew on it,

eat it, take it into our systems. Spurgeon went on to talk about how it's not enough to just

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