We can get so wrapped up in religious activity and never take the time to ask, is God really in this?

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

I think of how the presence of God is missing from so many of our lives, from so many of our churches, and how oblivious we are to the fact that he's been gone for a long time in terms of his manifest presence.

Many of us haven't even noticed it.

It's Monday, September 10th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

If a friend called you and said, can you help me? I'm desperate. Your ears would perk up.

Well, you and I should come to God with the attitude of that

friend. But far too often, we don't realize how needy we really are. Today's program on desperation

launches a special 12-week series called Seeking Him. Here's Nancy to get us started.

One day as I was preparing for this series, my friend Holly and I decided to go out for the

afternoon and take her kids to the park. And as we were driving into the park, we heard this

very faint jingling music box sound. Her kids knew instantly what it was. They have like

these ears that can hear things only dogs can hear, you know. It was this faint sound, but to them

it was unmistakable sound of an ice cream truck. And immediately those kids started to screech,

Mom, Mom, we want ice cream. Please, Mom, it's the ice cream truck. Please can we stop?

Please can we have some ice cream? Mom, we want ice cream. And it was in unison, you know, and Holly, being the obedient mom that she is, turned her van around and started to follow that truck. We actually had to follow it for quite some distance because he didn't see us. He didn't know we were trying to get his attention. I don't know how come he couldn't hear all those kids. And so he drove out of the park. We went

into this major thoroughfare and finally we're able to flag him down and get him to pull off into a

little parking lot. And these kids, they got their ice cream treat. And those kids were ecstatic to see

that ice cream truck. And then, of course course to have what was in that ice cream truck.

And as I watched that scene taking place in front of me, I thought that is a beautiful picture

of this series that we're getting ready to start called Seeking Him.

Here were kids who were seeking for ice cream.

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