Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, September 19th.

Today's message invites you to rediscover the foundations of prayer, learning to listen to God and receive from him.

Do you want God's best for your life? Are you willing just to do and just to get what you can do?

Do you want his best? God's best is the very best an awesome, omnipotent, omniscient, omniscient, omnipotent, unnoticed, and loving God can provide. He has that for his children. Now watch this. Watch this carefully. His best is not the same thing necessarily

he gives someone else. You can't compare yourself to someone else because that person's life

is not the same as your life. God's plan for that person, not the same as his plan for your life.

And it may be that where you are in life, a lot of that is because of what you've done in life or what you've

believed about yourself or how little you've believed about God. And the truth is, we have to be

specific. God wants us to have his best, but we have to go about it in the right life. Listen to the

spirit of God. Hear the heart of God. Listen to what he says, beginning in verse 8.

He says, hear, oh, my people, he says.

And again in that same verse, Oh, Israel, he says, if you would listen to me, let there be no strange God among you.

And then again, he says in verse 13, oh, that my people would listen to me.

What are you hearing? You're hearing God saying, oh, oh, Charles, oh, Bob, oh, Mary, oh, Sue,

oh, Margaret, oh, Martha. In other words, oh, if you would just listen to me, if you would just walk

in my ways, look what I have planned for you. Look what you're doing in your own devious ways, trying to devise things.

If you came to me, here's what I would do.

I'd give you my best.

God doesn't change.

And so God isn't going to give you second best.

Watch this.

You and I determine whether we get God's best or not by a response

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