Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, September 1st.

Waiting on the board is an important discipline, but there is also a time to stop waiting in prayer.

Learn about that as the series How to Talk to God Continues.

Let me present you with a little dilemma and see if you can identify with this.

Suppose, for example, that whatever your work may be, you lose it.

And your boss walks in the barn, he says, I'm sorry. We don't need you any longer.

I hate to have to tell you this, going to pay you two weeks, and that's it.

So you come home and you reason yourself. You say, well, the Lord, I know that I've lost my job for a particular reason.

Surely, you must be trying to teach me something, and I want to know what you're teaching me.

And so what shall I do at this point?

And so you have one or two things you think about. You say, well, shall I wait upon the Lord and just sit and do nothing

and wait for God to do something? Or shall I go out and pursue seeking another job?

Or some other vocation? And so oftentimes we're in that dilemma and we don't know what to do.

And so the question arises, when do you wait upon the Lord and when do you get up and do something?

So let me put it this way. There are times when you face a situation and you don't know what to do that you don't do anything.

You just feel God's assurance, don't move, don't make a decision, don't do anything, just wait upon me.

On the other hand, there are times when a situation arises and some circumstance changes and you say, well, what shall I do?

And God wants you to get up and take the initiative and do something.

Well, in this particular passage here, I believe there is an example of what God is saying to Joshua to help us identify a problem that many people have in their prayer light.

When as a result of not knowing maybe exactly what to do or thinking they don't know what to do, they sort of fudge you and got a little bit.

And they keep wondering, what doesn't the Lord answer my prayer? What doesn't God change my circumstances?

What has God allowed me to be in this circumstance? Why did God create all this in the first place?

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