Gretchen Saffles wants you to know God's word is more than ink on a page. It's a person,

a person who came for you. Maybe you're in a season of deep grief and longing. Maybe you lost

a loved one this year. Maybe you received a life-changing diagnosis.

And the way you knew life is completely different now.

And you're barely hanging on by a thread, wondering, is there really hope?

The word became flesh and dwelt among us.

Now in our 25th year of ministry, this is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy

DeMas Walgamuth for January 20th, 26.

I'm Dana Gresh. Do you ever feel the tug of things of this world luring you away from time in God's Word?

I know I do. In fact, I face that tug every single day of my life. And so does my

friend Gretchen Saffles. I think we all have Nancy. Yesterday we began listening to her true woman message

called Word Before World. I'll tell you, it was both convicting and refreshing. I can't wait for you to hear the rest of

that message today. Let's listen. John also describes Jesus in John chapter one as being the light

that conquers the darkness. Now, I love to garden. Any other gardeners in here? Yep, there's a lot of us in here. Can you grow a

plant in complete pitch black darkness? No, there is no, I looked it up. There's no, there are low light

plants so we can get into all of that stuff. But every plant needs light to grow and to survive.

In most plants, I like flowers. That's like, they're,

honestly, they're, those vegetables, they're so fussy, but flowers, they just, they forge right

through all the times I neglect them. And they need the light. They need the light in order to grow

and to flourish. We too need the light. We need the sun of Jesus Christ

to shine on the soil of our hearts. And he does that when we are in His Word. We need the heat of

His Word to burn away the sin in us, the waywardness in us, to draw us back as the good shepherd. Well, I live in

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