Have you drifted away from a close relationship with the Lord?

Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth encourages you to seek after him.

Don't be content until you can say, I have found the one I love.

And when you have found him, purpose in your heart to hold him close and not let him go.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth, author of A Place of Quiet

Rest. It's Friday, March 4, 2016.

If you've missed any of Nancy's teaching in the Song of Solomon so far, I hope you'll hear it by visiting the archives at revive our hearts.com.

She's continuing today. The series is called How to Fall and Stay in Love with Jesus.

Now, as we continue our journey through the Song of Solomon, I want to remind us that this book is not necessarily a chronological narrative. It's not a plot as if we were watching a movie

or a play. This is poetry. It's a love song. And it gives

us intimate glimpses into a love relationship. And throughout this book, we see amazing,

wonderful, practical, precious insights in relation to human marriage. But as I've said through

this series, we're reminded that human marriage points to human marriage. But as I've said through this series, we're reminded that human marriage

points to another marriage, the spiritual love relationship between Christ and His Church.

And in the first section through chapter 2 verse 7, we saw what we called initial love. It was fresh, it was vibrant, it was

passionate, it was ecstatic, initial love. Now we're in a section that began in chapter 2,

verse 8, and continuing through chapter 3, verse 5, that we've called unheeded love. Remember in the last couple of sessions that

the bridegroom called his bride to rise up out of the chamber where they had enjoyed this special

intimate relationship and to go with him into the mountains and hills, the circumstances of life,

the place where he was at work.

And then at the end of chapter two in the last session, we suggested that she didn't respond

to his call, to his initiative. She preferred to stay where she was, to be safe, secure,

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