A speaker compares drifting from prayer to a child getting lost in a mall, saying God will be excited by your first prayer back. He warns that staying away from God leaves you vulnerable, but reconnecting brings divine joy and gratitude.
Even if you found yourself away from God's presence, even if you haven't prayed in 3 months, I promise you, your first prayer point will make God excited. Like, you have a kid and you go to the mall and you want to keep that kid in your sight, but this kid just likes running for no reason. You ever seen them kids that just start taking off? These kids, they just out of nowhere, they just— that's how people are when they don't pray. All of a sudden, they depart from God's presence. And then you begin to look for that child. At that point, when that child is not in your presence, immediately you know anything can happen to that child. Somebody can carry them away, somebody can inflict harm on them, somebody can damage them emotionally, somebody can traumatize them, all because they've escaped your presence. But whenever you find them back in your presence, the first thing is Thank you. I found you. You're happy. The second thing is, don't you ever do that again.
