The biggest problem facing some churches and some individuals is pretty simple to describe.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

It's not a doctrinal problem. It's not a behavior problem.

It's not a problem of being lazy.

It's a heart problem. It's a love problem.

You have abandoned the love you have at first.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamy, author of The Quiet Place.

For August 10th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

Think about a time in your life when your love for Christ burned strong.

That could describe your love today.

Nancy will explain in a series called Your First Love Relationship.

It's one of the several series we'll cover in coming weeks on the

letters to the churches and revelation. Here's Nancy, with a quick personal illustration that she

recorded before she was married. I did something this morning that I'm sure none of you has ever

done. I like to keep my condo neat and presentable, and most of it I do.

But as I was leaving this morning to come to this recording session, my bedroom, which is where I also study, was a disaster.

I mean, a big mess. We got papers and books strewn everywhere. I'm getting ready to take a lengthy trip, and I've got suitcases spread out and clothes piled up and it was disastrous. And so as I was leaving, the thought just crossed my mind, I don't know who I thought might be coming by while I was out today, but I just thought, in case anybody comes in this condo today, I've got to close this bedroom door. They cannot see in this bedroom door. Do you have a room like that in your house? Does anybody close the door before you left today or you sometimes do? And I just don't want anybody

see in that room. I mean, it's horrible. And I thought of that on the way to this recording today,

and I thought, you know, we kind of live that way, some of us. And there are parts of our lives

that we don't mind being

open to inspection or people dropping by on us or seeing the way things are. And we keep parts of

our lives pretty orderly and picked up and neat, clean. But don't we sometimes have a room,

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