Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, February 27th.

Today's program challenges you to examine the content of your conversation with God.

Refine your prayers as you listen to Part 2 of an awesome privilege.

You and I have the privilege of approaching holy, omnipotent God.

This God is so powerful, all he had to do is speak.

And this world came into being.

Speak.

And there was a permanent.

Speak.

And there was seas and land.

Speak in this grass.

Speak in this cattle.

Speak in this fowl, speak in this fish,

speak in this man, this awesome, eternal, omnipotent God. All he had to do is speak,

and all that is in existence is the result of his lips. And I have the privilege of coming to him and talking to an omnipotent God who has all

power to do anything and everything I could possibly ask it to do. Is that not awesome?

Does that not motivate us to think, God, when we think about how little and insignificant we are like grains of sand on the beach, but we must be far more important to God than that, that he would give us the privilege of walking into his presence with all of his holiness and his unlimited, absolute, ultimate, final authority in power over everything that exists.

Now, it's interesting what happens in this passage, because Jesus now is speaking to his hearers, and he's speaking in ways that he's sure that they'll understand.

And so he said to them that, pray for your

enemies. That was a tough one. Then he said, now, don't be like the Pharisees and Sadducees praying in

public so you'll be heard. And they'll say, oh, here's a praying man, a woman. And he said,

so you pray in secret. He says, when you pray in secret, God will reward you openly. Then he said, if you don't know how to pray, this is the way

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