When you are in the zone, everything peripheral blurs and fades, leaving only the object of your attention. You might be an athlete in your finest moment, a gunfighter on an old Tucson street, a virtuoso exulting in the music, an artist absorbed in the next stroke... a follower of Jesus, brilliantly consumed by the beauty of the One.

There is a vast difference between knowing about God and knowing God. We can spend hours in church- attending worship services, participating in outreach ministries, teaching Sunday School, hosting small group meetings- spending ourselves in service to the Lord. Yet in the midst of all the activity, it is possible for us to remain void of relationship and intimacy with Him. The more we strive, the more God seems to be an impersonal, mystical, distant being.

Many of us sense that something is missing and woefully inadequate in our spiritual pilgrimages. We see others leaving the church and the faith, as their excitement and passion for Jesus wanes all too often because we have perpetuated the lie of church-ianity, seeking relationship through ritual. We have lost our simple obsession, the grand, wholehearted, unifying pursuit that becomes our center of life.

God created Adam and Eve to walk with Him in the cool of the evening. For the first man and woman, relationship with the Father was simple. There was little required of them in their daily schedule — no jobs, no email, no housework, not even ministry to be done. But God was intimately involved in their lives. As they worked in the garden, caring for all that He had made for them, they talked with Him as friends and enjoyed being in His presence.

Jesus invites us to return to that simple place of intimate friendship with the Living God who wants to fellowship with us. He desires to fulfill our greatest longings — for friendship, for love, for significance.

This free, three-hour seminar will soften and restore any heart. It shows you the way out of unfruitful religious wastelands and into abundant life with your simple obsession.

Jamie Zumwalt is the cofounder of Heart of God Ministries and teaches in HGM’s Missionary Training Institute, Beautiful Feet Boot Camp.  A pastor’s kid from the Pacific Northwest, Jamie received a call to missions as a young child.  After a battle with depression and a brush with death as a young adult, she surrendered her life to obey God’s calling.  She and her husband, John, served as missionaries in Taiwan among the Hakka and Taiwanese.  She is the author of the book titled, Simple Obsession: Enjoying the Tender Heart of God.  Jamie travels widely, preaching and holding seminars, raising up missionaries to go to the unreached.  Most of her time is dedicated to training future pioneer missionaries.  She and John have five children, Jessica, Josiah, Jael, Jewel and James.