Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, February 26th.

Prayer is not a formula we follow, or a work order we submit.

It's really about getting to know our Heavenly Father.

Let's learn how to take full advantage of your awesome privilege.

In your vocation, you probably experience privileges that are other people who are not in that vocation do not have.

And for example, in your relationships, more than likely you have privileges that other people don't have.

If you have a relationship with someone, you could play golf at a certain country club that other people cannot play at.

If you know someone very special, then you may have telephone privileges to call that person

any time that other people could not do. You may have financial privileges that other people

do not have, and so on and on it goes. But there is one privilege that a certain group of people

has that I want to talk about in this message

and discuss because I think it is an awesome kind of a privilege. And when I say awesome,

something is awesome when it is overwhelming, monumental, inspirational, and sometimes staggering.

And that's what I think about this privilege. So I want you to turn, if you will,

to Matthew chapter 7. This is the sermon on the Mount. The seventh chapter beginning in verse 7.

He says, ask, and it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be open to you.

For everyone who asks receives receives and he who seeks finds

and to him who knocks it shall be opened. Oh what man is there among you when his son shall ask for a loaf

will give him a stone or if he shall ask for a fish he will not give him a snake will he if you then being evil

know how to give good gifts to your children how much more shall your father who is in heaven

give what is good to those who ask him you say oh what's so awesome? Well, that's what I want to talk about.

Now, there are three steps that I believe that are involved in prayer, which make me understand

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