Welcome to this weekend's in touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Do you ever struggle with what or how to pray?

Let's continue the study of Colossians

as we focus our attention on the Apostle Paul's encouraging call to prayer.

Three young men who are going to be pastors picked me up in a van this past week when I was going

to speak and they said to me they said

Dr Stanley if you only had one thing to say to ministerial students what would you

say and that is a question oftentimes a young pastor will ask and they're usually

expecting some big long theological philosophical answer and my answer is very simple and very

plain.

It's the same answer I want to give to you today

because it is the most important thing

any preacher ever learns.

It must be his priority,

and it should be the priority of every single believer.

And that is if I had one thing to say to a pastor, whether he is 16 or 106, it would be the same. The most important activity in your life as a man of

God is the time you spend alone with Him in the word of God on your knees in prayer that must have priority above

everything else in your life and what is true in a pastor's life is true in

everybody else's life.

There is any activity in all of her life that can equal the importance,

the effectiveness, and the power of spending time by yourself in the word of God alone with Him,

fellowshipping and talking with God.

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