You say, notice in so that you can say yes to a close relationship with God.

Nancy Damaswagamuth has some soul-searching questions.

Is there anything or anyone that is intruding in your intimacy with God?

I don't have time to cultivate intimacy with God.

Why don't you have time?

What's in the way?

What are you spending your time doing?

What's stealing your heart?

What's stealing your affections?

Do you love or enjoy or entertain yourself with anything that is opposed to Him?

Anything that He hates, anything that is not conducive to cultivating intimacy with Him.

This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast with Nancy Damaswagamuth, author of Surrender the Heart God Controls.

For August 31st, 2023, I'm Dana Grasch.

The Book of Revelation tells us about a church that was tolerating immoral behavior.

The solution to that problem is church discipline, as Nancy has been exploring over the last several days in the series, Compromising Truth.

This church in Revelation was also tolerating false doctrine, a danger you and I face all the time.

In fact, here's an example.

I took God out of the box because I grew up in the Baptist church and there were rules and belief systems and doctrine.

And I happened to be sitting in church at my late 20s and I was going to this church where this great minister was preaching about how great God was and how omniscient and omnipresent and God is everything.

And then he said, and the Lord that God is a jealous God.

And I was caught up in the rapture of that moment until he said, jealous, something struck me.

I was thinking, God is all, God is omnipresent, God is all.

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