Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Psalm 27, verse 14 reminds us to wait for the Lord.

But have you ever wondered when you need to stop waiting?

Let's find out as we listen to today's podcast.

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 tomorrow and 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 to 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 of 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,

you say, 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

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