Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth remind you of something amazing.

The day the Lord Jesus took you to be his bride, his heart rejoiced.

Can you imagine that we give him joy?

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walkalmuth, author of A Place of Quiet Rest.

It's Monday, March 7, 2016.

For the last few weeks, Nancy's been inviting you into a closer relationship with Jesus. We've seen a portrait of Christ and the church by studying a great love story from the Bible.

Here's Nancy, continuing in the series, How to Fall and Stay in Love with Jesus.

Well, as we journey through the song of Solomon, we're seeing different stages and phases of a love relationship.

We've seen the initial stage. That season when the love of this bride and her bridegroom was fresh, it was young, it was ecstatic, it was warm, the initial stage of love.

And then we looked at a stage that we called unheeded love, a season when their

relationship was tested because she was hesitant to respond to his call. But now the fellowship,

the communion with her beloved has been restored, and she is ready to follow her beloved,

to go with him, to leave the chamber, to go with him

out into the mountains and hills of life, the circumstances of life. And if that's what will

please him, she's ready to do that. Now we come to a section in the Song of Solomon that starts

with chapter 3, verse 6, and it's going to go through the first

part of chapter 5, and I call this section Growing Love, the development of a deeper, more

intimate love relationship between the bride and her beloved. You may remember the name Hudson

Taylor, who was a missionary statesman to China, and he only ever

wrote one book that I know of, and it's a little book on the Song of Solomon.

And he says in that book that true love cannot be stationary.

It must either decline or grow.

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