Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth reminds you that God wants to give you life to the fullest.

God wants you to be fruitful. He wants you to be useful. He wants you to bear much fruit for his glory.

This growth that comes from the river of life isn't just for us.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walcombe, author of Brokenness for March 22nd, 2019.

Imagine you're in a desert, but you find a green, fruitful plant.

How could a plant thrive with no visible source of water?

Nancy says you could be just like that plant, allowing the Holy Spirit to nourish you even in

outwardly challenging times. She's continuing in the series

where the river flows. As I've been studying this passage in Ezekiel 47 about the river of life,

there's a little chorus we used to sing maybe back in the 90s. It's been running through my head, through my heart.

You may be familiar with it. I've got a river of life flowing out of me. Makes the lame to walk and the

blind to see, opens prison doors, says the captives free. I've got a river of life flowing out of me.

And then you remember that chorus? spring up oh well within my soul.

Spring up oh well and make me whole. Spring up, oh well, and give to me that life abundantly.

Now if you're familiar with that chorus, you won't be able to get it out of your head.

The rest of the day, someone on our team said last night, we ought to do

that in this session and do it with the motions. But I don't know what the motions are,

and you really wouldn't want to hear me sing it. So I'll let you do that on your way home.

But a river of life we're talking about here in Ezekiel 47 and it's a powerful life-changing

transforming river that changes and impacts everything everywhere it goes.

Remember as we started looking at this passage a couple of days ago that Ezekiel is in

captivity when he gets this vision in Babylon with the rest of the people of God.

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