Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, October 14th.

Do you have a need on your heart today?

Today's podcast offers encouragement to rely fully on God.

Bring your request to him and trust his response.

In James, the very first chapter, in verse 5, he says, if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God.

What he's really saying here, if you'll notice in the verse before, he's talking about needs,

and he says, let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Then he says, but if you lack wisdom, here's

what you do. The truth is what he's saying is, if you lack anything, here's what you do, no matter

what it is. If there's a need in your life, he says, this is the way to approach that need. And

his first word of instruction is to bring your need to God in prayer. That's what he's saying. Notice,

if any of you lacks wisdom or lacks anything, let him ask of God who gives to all men generously.

Now, I believe one of the specific primary problems and a lot of people's praying is this.

They never ask specifically.

If somebody is going to pray for you and you have a particular need, do you want them to

pray, Lord, would you just bless him? Or do you want them to pray specifically that God would meet

your need? In these two words of instruction, his first is simply this. First of all,

that you and I come to him with a specific request and address that need to God. Look,

if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all men liberally. We had to bring

these requests to the Father.

But notice the second thing he says.

First of all, he says, we are to make our request to God.

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