CHAPTER 6
Increase Your Desire
for Hearing God Talk
It happens if you let it. Love fades.
In 1976, at twenty-one years old, I was incredibly passionate
about God. I was uncontrollably bubbly and outspoken about
my relationship with Him as a forgiving Father, a sacrificial
Savior, and a dynamic spiritual force coming into my heart and
turning all of me toward all of Him. I think my enthusiasm for
God was even irritating to some people. But sadly, by the time I
was only twenty-nine years old, I was simply going through
the motions of talking all about God, but not talking with Him.
My relationship with God had grown passionless and
stagnant.
I didn’t actually know what was missing in my life until I
attended a conference where godly men and women shared
their very personal and exciting stories of what happened when
they spent time alone with God. Though they had known Him
for decades, they still expressed a deep and passionate love
relationship with God.
At first I was jealous. (I know... that’s not a good sign.) But
my jealousy quickly turned away from wanting what they had
into more of a longing for my own passion toward God to be
revived. I reminisced about my wildly exciting early years of
knowing God, when I trusted Him completely, expected Him to