Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, October 13th.

Have you ever wondered how ordinary people could express extraordinary faith?

Today's podcast continues the series on prayer, explaining a winning combination in time of need.

When you bring your needs to the Lord, do you bring him a wish list? Are you really and truly

expressing faith in God that he's going to hear and answer your specific request to him? There's a

difference in wishing and trusting. There's a difference in coming to God with a wish list and just talking to

him about it than expressing genuine faith in Almighty God. I want you to turn, if you will,

to James Chapter 1. And the title of this message is, a winning combination when in need.

That is, all of us have needs, and God has given us a simple

combination whereby you and I can have that need met. I want us to begin reading with

verse two, but it's verse 5 through 8 that I want us to major on primarily in this message.

He says in verse 2 of James 1, consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result,

that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing, that is, in your spiritual life.

But if any of you lacks, lacks what, anything?

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all men generously and without

reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith without any doubting.

For the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

But let not that man expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded

man unstable in all his ways. Now, James gives us two very simple instructions in this passage

of scripture that I want you to note. And the first

instruction is, if you'll look in verse five, he says, if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of

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