In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, direction without doubt.

When you come to make very difficult decisions in your life, do you face them with confidence,

or do you find yourself being a little intimidated, maybe a little uncertain, maybe confused,

maybe frustrated? In other words, you're not quite sure, and probably the result of that would be that you would procrastinate.

Now, procrastinator is a person who, because they cannot do something perfectly, they keep

putting it off.

And so it may be that you feel inadequate to make that decision.

Maybe you're afraid to make it. You see other people who have been the

same place you are and you see what's happened in their life? Or maybe it's because you

have a wonderful opportunity, but you're afraid to take advantage of it because you feel inadequate.

In other words, what is it that motivates you to respond, the way you respond, when you

face important decisions in your life?

There are all kinds of decisions we all have to make.

Decisions about relationships, about our finances, about our jobs, about our future, about

our health.

In fact, all of us are where we are as a result of decisions we've made about ourselves that relate

to us, whether it's physical, financial, job, whatever it might be.

What I want to talk about in this message is direction without doubt.

God will give you direction in your life.

Then you don't have to say, well, I hope so, maybe so, I think so.

And oftentimes people make decisions and are never settled about the issue as to whether

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