Mary Cassian says, when you know God as your father, you want to spend time with him.

It's not because I have to have a devotional time four times a week.

It changes everything. This whole idea of Christianity as a relationship.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoo.

Author of Holiness, The Heart God Purifies.

For Thursday, June 12, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Yesterday, we began listening to a message by Mary Cassian.

If you missed the first part of the message, I hope you'll go to Revive Our Hearts.com,

where you can listen to that online.

Now, Mary's about to show why everyone longs for a father's love.

So whether or not you've had the example of a godly and loving father in your

home, your deepest longings can be fulfilled by your heavenly father. Here's Mary to explain more.

You know, there's a little town in Spain and a boy named Juan, and Juan was a rebellious son son and he got in a conflict with his father

and stole some money and they were in a conflict. And then he ran off to neighboring city,

large city, ran away from home. And the father looked for him, couldn't find him, asked around

for him and finally heard that

Juan was in this neighboring city from a friend of his.

And so the father went to the city and walked up and down the streets and up and down

the streets, couldn't find him, couldn't find him.

It was like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

And he decided the only thing that he could do, because he needed to leave

and go back to his home, the only thing he could do was to take out an ad in the local paper,

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