Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, September 18th.

The world constantly pulls at our attention, but strong faith grows when we intentionally

make time to seek the Lord. Today, we are reminded of the power of diligently pursuing God.

Are there needs in your life that somehow just not being met?

Do you have desires that you would say are really strong desires, and yet somehow God's

either not listening or something's wrong? But deep down inside, you know that these are needs

in your life and you know that these desires

are very important to you, but they're not being met. So the question is, why not? What's wrong?

What's going on? You do believe in God. You do believe that Jesus Christ is your Savior.

You're trying to do the right thing in life, but somehow they're not being met.

Is it because you haven't asked?

He said, no, no, no, no, I've been asking.

Well, let me ask you this.

You have been asking, but have you been expecting an answer?

Have you been anticipating an answer?

If you're asking him for something very specific, are you preparing to receive an answer?

Is it that you're just talking to him about it, or do you really and truly believe that he's going to answer that prayer?

I think a lot of people just sort of talk to God.

They tell him this and they tell him that and they tell him the other and in Jesus' name, amen. Instead of asking specifically for what they

want or what they believe the need is. And so oftentimes people go through their Christian life and

they get a whole lot less than God planned. He's got something so much better, and yet you'll go through life and you'll miss it

because somewhere along the way you've missed something, something very important.

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