Beholding the Wonder: True Woman ’25

Dannah Gresh: When was the last time you were amazed by the Word of God? Here's Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth.

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth: In Psalm 119 we see a man whose relationship with God and with His Word pulsates with life, with passion, with warmth, with joy. 

Courtney Doctor: I mean, it was just the exalting in God's Word over and over and over again.

Nancy: He makes you feel that this is the one Book you must read before you die.

Courtney: And that was just such a beautiful way to start to be reminded that it's not only true, but it's beautiful.

Dannah: Last week, thousands of women gathered in Indianapolis, and thousands more joined us online for, The Word: Behold the Wonder. 

Caroline Cobb: I just loved how God's Word was lifted up as something to be delighted in and as something to be craved and hungered for.

Laura Dedachi: In my generation, I think people are hungry for God and they're hungry for the truth. But sometimes it's hard to find where the truth is. We are surrounded by so much information, so many different opinions, there is a need to go back to the Word, to the truth.

Nancy: So how do you cultivate hunger for the Word?

Mariya Gusenkov: We heard the appetite is not like physical appetite. You eat, and you get satisfied. With the appetite for the Word is something that is only growing. So come and taste and see.

Nancy: Do we long for God's Word? Do we delight in it? Do we love it? 

Mariya: So I'm in that stage where I've tasted that. It is so beautiful, and I want to have more.

Nancy: So how do you find delight in God's Word? Get your nose in this Book. I beg you! I implore you! I plead with you! Read it!

Shane & Shane (singing): “Thy Word Is a Lamp unto My Feet”

Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet
And a light unto my path. 

Dannah: This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, author of A Place of Quiet Rest for Friday, October 10, 2025. I'm Dannah Gresh. 

Do you find it harder and harder to be impressed by things? Sometimes the more you've seen in life, the easier it is to think I've seen better. Children, on the other hand, are constantly in awe. They gasp. They're delighted, amazed. Well, some things in life should never become ho-hum. And towards the top of that list is this: I want to have a childlike wonder at the Word of God. 

At True Woman ’25 we prayed that God would help us recapture that wonder.

Blair Linne: I have been praying that the Lord would meet us in revival. My name is Blair Linne. I've been praying that for my own heart and praying that for every woman that comes into this conference hall, and then also those who are watching.

Laura Dedachi: My name is Laura Dedachi, and I'm originally from France. The night before the conference, the staff met, we gathered, and we were called to just spread all over the convention center and then just pray over the different rooms and the different places.

Blair: I'm praying that every woman would have a deep, intimate experience with our Savior and Lord, and that we would treasure His Word above all else.

Nancy: I was corresponding, texting, over the weekend, with a precious friend who lives in Europe. And she has recently been through some horrendous, painful circumstances in her family. And I talked with her just a week ago over WhatsApp, FaceTime, and just she's weeping, She's pouring out her heart. Here's a woman who was at the last True Woman conference, but she wasn't able to come this time. 

But here's a woman whose heart is broken. But she's grounded in the truth of God's Word, which is all that is keeping her together and helping her walk through this with her husband and with her children, as God is working in each of those lives. 

But she was watching the True Woman livestream. I think her time was five or six hours later. So she was in the middle of the night. One night she was with a couple of friends. They were doing this together. We're talking like our sessions didn't end till 9:30. So that's what, 2:30 or 3:30 in the morning where she is. They've watched through the night. She's weeping. She's praying. She's supporting what God is doing here. So she was being ministered to, but she was also praying as were so many in this country and around the world.

Kimberly Wagner: It's incredible to be here at True Woman 2025, seventeen years after the first True Woman conference, and see what God has done. My name is Kimberly Wagner. Most people call me Kim. The True Woman Movement is a movement that's gone far beyond what Nancy or the Revive Our Hearts team first thought would happen.

Mariya: There are at least about one hundred Slavic women, or Russian-speaking women, here at the conference. My name is Mariya Gusenkov. Women were coming through the registration. I was able to greet them in Russian and Ukrainian. There are women who are here from Moldova.

Caroline Barusya: My name is Caroline, and I was born in Eastern Europe, in Moldova, and my family immigrated here when I was eighteen.

Mariya: So from different countries of the former Soviet Union, and they were coming through and coming through. They're hungry for the Word.

Caroline: My eyes did not dry. They were not dry all this time. I think I just enjoyed worshiping with all the ladies. 

Anastasiya Snavely: Hi, I'm Anastasiya Snavely. My family were Ukrainian refugees from the Soviet Union. My family went through a lot of persecution. My dad was in jail for building Protestant churches, which was illegal. My mom taught Sunday school, which she was followed by the KGB. God's Word is so precious. Without the Bible, they would not have made it through Communism.

Nancy: Years ago, I had the opportunity to meet a woman named Margaret Nikol. She's now in heaven. When she was a little girl, the Communists confiscated virtually all the Bibles in the country. 

Well, when Margaret was in her mid-thirties, she was exiled to the United States. Shortly after she arrived in America, some new friends asked her, “What do you want for Christmas?”

Margaret didn't have to think very long about that. More than anything else, she wanted a Bible. 

Anastasiya: I needed the Lord to just send encouragement, to light a fire, to speak into my life, and to pour into my life, because I feel drained sometimes. 

Nancy: She stood in the aisle of that bookstore and she said, “I wept and wept and wept for joy.”

Anastasiya: You know, the Lord has blessed me with the ability to be able to pour into other young women's lives, and now it's my turn, and now the Lord's pouring His truth and His Word and encouragement, lighting a fire in my heart. It's exactly what I needed.

Mary Kassian: I loved Kevin DeYoung. 

Nancy: We had asked him, “Can you tell us the whole story of the Bible in forty-five minutes? 

Pastor Kevin DeYoung: The storyline of the Bible can be told in this way: how can a holy God dwell in the midst of an unholy people? 

Mary: Because he was able to take Genesis to Revelation and connect all the dots.

Pastor DeYoung: What went wrong in the Garden will be set right in the Garden City to come. 

Mary: I think he had nine points. 

Pastor DeYoung: Number one . . . 

Mary: Boom, boom, boom, boom. 

Pastor DeYoung: The Bible is a story about children. 

Ann Janel McClure: It was like a fire hydrant. 

Pastor DeYoung: The Bible's a story about clothes. 

Ann Janel: My name is Ann Janel McClure, and I live in São Paulo, Brazil. 

Pastor DeYoung: The Bible is a story about coming home. 

Ann Janel: I've been studying this. I've never seen all these things that he brought up. And so it was just amazing. 

Nancy: Robert and I were sitting next to each other during that message. I'm going, “I never thought of that.” 

Pastor DeYoung: The Bible's a story about trees. 

Nancy: I never saw that that way. 

Pastor DeYoung: The Bible is a story about God's presence. 

Nancy: That's amazing. 

Pastor DeYoung: The Bible is a story about eating. 

Ann Janel: I just want to go home and read my Bible. This is amazing. 

Pastor DeYoung: The Bible is a story about angels . . . about marriage . . . number nine . . . The Bible is a story about a man, a woman, and a snake. 

Ann Janel: There's so much more here. In fact, I will be going back and teaching my ladies Bible study on Genesis 3.

Dannah: We're reliving just a few of the highlights from last week's True Woman conference. Our theme was The Word: Behold the Wonder. Mary Kassian took us to an Old Testament passage where the Scriptures were rediscovered and recovered in the days of Josiah.

Mary Kassian: Moving the Word from the corner to the center, that's what ignites a Josiah moment.

Anastasiya: We have the wealth of the Bible in this country, and yet we just walk by it. 

Paulina Torres: My name is Paulina Torres. How foolish of us that we could think that we could go through life without His Word, which is what sustains us. 

Mary: Re-engagement with God’s Word, moving it from corner to center, can ignite a powerful chain reaction. First comes conviction, a deep awareness of truth and the reality of sin. This conviction fuels courage, the bold action to do what is right, even in the face of opposition. And when conviction and courage take hold, they generate contagion, a ripple effect that transforms not only individuals, but families and communities.

Dannah: My message folded into all the other messages for me. For example, tearing down the idols, that sort of folded into what I was teaching from Psalm 130 that the reason we need God's Word every day is because we need mercy every day.

Dannah (conference): We are called to bind ourselves to the Lord and His Word. Now, I don't know about you, but that's not my default. One of the things I tend to bind myself to is my phone in my waiting

Anastasiya: And I was just really convicted, because very easily do I reach for my phone, especially as a young mother.

Dannah: You ever noticed you can't hardly make eye contact with someone? We can't even wait in a grocery line that our eyes are just like this [looking down] because we can't wait for three minutes.

Sandra Martin: I am Sandra Martin. We use the phones all the time. We're glued to our phones, and it's important to understand what is its proper place so that it does not become an idol.

Dannah: This past year, my husband was sick for a while, and it was fearful, it was painful, it was hard. There was a lot of waiting, and I was waiting on my phone. I was at work, I was taking care of life, and then at night, when I came home and he still wasn't feeling well, my heart could not handle the fear and the hurt, so I started scrolling. I got in this habit of, you know, looking at what people were eating for dinner and other dumb things.

Pauline: What do you need to get out of your life? These idols, these distractions, and just focus on the Scriptures.

Dannah: What was I doing? I was medicating. I was medicating because it hurt less when I was distracted. I was binding myself to my screen and my scroll. What do you bind yourself to in the hard work of waiting? Wait on the Lord.

Narine: My name is Narine, and I am from Armenia. Very often we can be busy even with good things, good works. I'm doing something good. I have lots of ministries, but I don't have good quality time with the Lord.

Sandra: It is a temptation. What do we choose the very first hours in the morning? Do we choose scrolling the phone, or do we choose opening the Word?

Anastasiya: I am praying that the Lord will teach me the self-discipline that when I have a spare moment to not reach for my phone but to reach for God's truth.

Nancy: This woman came to share with us. It was her first True Woman conference, and she was so grateful. And then she said,” Would you pray for me? I want to receive Jesus Christ as my Savior and Lord.” 

Kelly Needham: The gospel is powerful by itself, with no human help. 

Dannah: Kelly Needham inspired us to reach out to an unbelieving world with God's Word.

Kelly: The best eloquent wisdom in the world cannot aid it. It is powerful on its own. 

Maria Claussen: My name is Maria Claussen and I am from Hamburg in Germany. 

Kelly: Do not believe the lie that it's not powerful without human help.

Maria: She spoke a lot about how the gospel is offensive and it's foolish and how much we can be afraid to share it because of that foolishness. But, it has power on its own, so we do not need to be afraid. I was really feeling like God was sending that just to me. 

Amanda Kassian: I'm Amanda Kassian from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I'm going back home emboldened to stand and behold Jesus even more than when I came, and to not be afraid to do so. 

Jackie Hill Perry: So let's see Him, Jesus, who was in the beginning with God. Behold Him. 

Dannah: Jackie Hill Perry joined us as well. She challenged us to behold the Living Word. 

Jackie: Jesus, who is God, behold Him! 

Mary: That's what all of this is about. 

Jackie: I don't know if you see Him yet, so I'll keep going. There He is in the garden asking the Father to take the cup that had God's wrath for our sin in it. The Word who was in the beginning with God and was about to be forsaken by God. 

Clédia Dusabuwera: Behold, the Word of God, the Wonder of the world. Behold. It was quite challenging. 

Jackie: God was in the garden of Gethsemane reckoning with the fact that He was about to be forsaken by the God that He was always with. Behold His love. 

Clédia: So my name is Clédia Dusabuwera. I'm originally from Rwanda. I don't remember the last time I saw women going down and praying and crying to the Lord. 

Jackie: Behold Him as he becomes the propitiation for our sins, absorbing the wrath of God, so what we get is righteousness by faith. Behold Him.

Mary: There was a stirring of God's Spirit. 

Nancy: Tears streaming down her cheeks as she is pleading with women to behold Christ and what beholding Him does for everything else in your life. That is what we need. 

And then to see her go on her face down to the ground, on the platform, and pray over these women a long prayer, as women were coming in droves to the front to kneel and pray. Crying out to the Lord. 

Jackie: Behold Him who has conquered the grave! 

Paulina: God had a moment with me there. I'm a pastor's wife, so there's a lot of ministry things going on. There's been a lot of heartbreak these last couple of days. You know, when you lose friends and when people leave the church, it's just heartbreaking. And when Jackie was just saying, “Behold, behold, if you get betrayed.” 

Jackie: God of glory, we love you, and we thank You that You have loved us first. 

Paulina: So that was an amazing time for me. I was just bawling. It's like, “God, I am so sorry I have not been beholding You these last couple of days. I've been distracted by this pain, this hurt. 

Jackie: I pray, God, that You would humble our hearts so that we would behold You. 

Paulina: It was just a really special time, just God speaking to my heart. Just focus on Me.

Jackie: I pray for those who are enslaved to sin. 

Paulina: It was a perfect date for God and I to have this weekend. 

Jackie: We love You, and we thank You in Christ Jesus, amen.

Dannah: I will forever in my mind remember. I stepped onto the stage I didn't say anything. The women in front of me, thousands of them, went down almost row by row. They sat down row by row. It was like . . . oh, I don't know how to describe it still. They were in awe—not of Shane and Shane, not of Jackie Hill Perry, clearly in awe of the living God of the universe! 

Mary: Absolutely, I agree. And that was, I mean, the message was, “Behold Him,” and we did. 

Nancy: The women who were here this weekend, they're going back to their homes, to their churches, to their neighborhoods, to their workplaces, their hearts having been freshly warmed by the Word of God, living it out, and creating in others around them a hunger and a thirst for the Jesus they have seen—the living Word that they have experienced as they've opened the written Word. 

My dream is that what happened here this weekend is just a beginning or a next step for many as they get into the Word. Many have been in the Word, but we're encouraging them to just take a step further. We challenged everybody for thirty days after the conference, we've got a thirty-day Bible reading challenge. If this is new to you, get those muscles warmed up and get into it. 

And then we have encouraged the women, as this conference was the launch to a several-year Wonder of the Word campaign or initiative that next year, 2026, we're going to read through the Bible together—women around the world. Some of them have done it before. Some of them have never done it. But women reading in their own language, the Bible.

Our team will be providing resources for them each day to help keep them going, to give them opportunities to share what they're learning, what God is teaching them. So we had a great big banner in the hallway and women were signing that. I haven't even seen it yet, but I heard that it had a lot of names on saying, “I want to read through the Bible with you next year.” 

And then all of that preparing, Lord willing, for 2027 when we'll be studying through the Bible together as I'm in the process of recording 260 half-hour podcasts, walking women through the Word from Genesis to Revelation, or as my husband would say, from Genesis to the maps. Teaching through the Bible to help women, not just in 2027 to study the Word together—women and children . . . We have Wonder of the Word for kids and teenage girls with the new Wonder App for teenage girls. So every age will be engaging in this. 

So ’27 is a big year for that. All those resources will now be available to women around the world currently, in fourteen different languages that are in process of being translated—the Wonder of the Word sessions. Sixteen more languages are standing in line waiting to let us set them to translating if the Lord provides the funds for us to do that.

If we were able to do all thirty of those languages . . . (Does that add up? Sixteen and fourteen? Is that thirty? Math isn't my thing.) But if we could have the Wonder of the Word teaching in those thirty languages, that would make those resources available to 85 percent of the world's population for generations to come, years to come, passing on from one generation to the next. 

So this conference, Behold the Wonder of the Word, was really just us launching what we believe will be a many-year global and generational, pushing out of the Word of God, getting women into the Word, and getting the Word into them; so that they encounter and meet the living Word, Jesus, who is going to be saving women, transforming their lives. We become what we behold. And as women are beholding Christ in this Word, their lives are going to be changed. They're going to become like Jesus. We're going to become more and more like Jesus. 

I love it. I'm so grateful, so thankful to be in this process myself, and then having so many from our team and others around the world who are helping make this a reality, and believing that God is going perhaps through the women of the Word, women who are taken the wonder of the written and the living Word, who will be an instrument and a means of revival to women all around the world for the glory of Jesus and His great Name. 

Dannah: The women in attendance at True Woman ’25 left hungry for more of God's Word and challenged to read it, meditate on it, soak their minds in it, and live by it. 

And so, here's your challenge. Will you commit to read God's Word every day for thirty days? You can sign up now for the 30-Day Quiet Rest Challenge. We'll send you daily email reminders for a month with Scripture passages to read and questions to think about and apply to your life. To sign up for the 30-Day Quiet Rest Bible Reading Challenge, head to this page on our website. ReviveOurHearts.com/challenges. You'll be so thankful you did. 

This is a great way to help get into the habit of reading the Bible daily, which will prepare you for reading through the Bible next year. Again to sign up for the month-long Quiet Rest Challenge. Go to ReviveOurHearts.com/challenges.

Well, speaking of quiet rest, on Monday, Nancy begins a series on Psalm 131. It's a short psalm, only three verses long, but there's such rich content there. Her series is called, “How to Have a Quiet Heart.” 

Have a wonderful weekend, and then please be back for Revive Our Hearts.

Shane and Shane (singing): "I Will Wait for You"

I will wait for You,
I will wait for You until my soul is satisfied.

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