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Revive Our Hearts

Word Before World, Ep. 1

Revive Our Hearts

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Are you scrolling your life away? According to modern statistics, so many of us are. When we live life on our phones, we let the world shape our thoughts and actions. But there’s a better way.

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0:00.0

Let me ask you something. Have you been scrolling your life away? Gretchen Saffles invites you to

0:06.1

change that. Delight in the Lord far outlasts any dopamine hit that scrolling your phone could ever give.

0:14.7

God's word never changes, but it always changes us.

0:21.7

This is the Revival Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamy's author of Incomparable.

0:28.0

For January 19th, 2026, I'm Dana Gresh.

0:44.5

If you're walking through the 2026 Bible reading plan with us, today we're reading Exodus 15 through 18. Nancy? As you reflect on your heart attitudes, do you ever see a pattern of

0:53.7

discontentment or discouragement? Well, several years ago,

0:58.4

my friend Gretchen Saffles noticed that tendency in her own life. As she thought about it,

1:05.0

she began to realize that her emotional slumps were the result of a world-driven, phone-based life. Now, I want you to see if this routine

1:15.0

sounds familiar. Gretchen says that she'd begin each morning checking her email, scrolling social

1:20.4

media, and reading the news. When daily mom life got stressful, she'd scroll to escape.

1:27.2

And then when she went to bed at night,

1:29.0

she'd scroll some more before falling asleep. Hmm, I have a hunch. This is an all too familiar

1:36.7

rhythm for so many of us. But it doesn't have to be. This past fall at True Woman 25, Gretchen did a session about putting God's word before the world.

1:50.4

And as we learn to do that, I truly believe you and I will experience the freedom, fullness, and fruitfulness in Christ that our souls truly long for. So let's listen to part one

2:05.0

of Gretchen's message. Here's a reality. Every single day we have a choice to make. Will we put

2:16.6

the world first or the word first?

2:20.9

What are we going to allow to shape our thoughts and our affections and our devotion? Are we going to

2:29.3

allow all of the data on our phones to shape us or God's unchanging word. I actually realized how detrimental

2:38.0

this is whenever I was looking at my screen time data, when my phone rolled out that feature and then

2:43.3

all of a sudden you start getting this at the end of the week, this is your average daily data

2:47.6

because a lot of times we don't realize where we're spending our time

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