Maybe you've prayed in the past: "God, speak to me with an audible voice" but we couldn't stand to regularly hear that voice of the absolute God in that way as He spoke to Peter, James and John on mount Tabor. But when Jesus comes near, as a testimony in your inner man, that is what brings a real change in you.
Are you downhearted? Barren? Do you feel like a beautiful tree that has been chopped down and all that's left is a treestump? There...
The God that has not changed and will not change wants to do something in this generation, a generation with the characteristics of Ruth!...
It's not the ultimate vision for the church to be walking around the millstone, moving every part but never reaching a destination never fulfilling...