Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, October 1st.

God has a will for our lives, but to find it it demands we follow his instructions.

A familiar story from Luke Chapter 5 serves as a reminder

that God always rewards obedience. Have you ever made a decision to obey God as a way of life? I don't mean just obey God once in a while, but I mean that's the bottom line of how you make decisions. Or do you find yourself still struggling of a decision after decision after decision?

Well, how will this profit me?

Will this bring me pleasure?

Will this bring me security?

What are other people going to say?

In other words, all those questions you have to go through over and over and over again?

Have you ever made a decision just to decide,

I'm going to obey God no matter what. You see, obedience as a lifestyle means this, that at some

point in your life you make a definite deliberate decision to obey God in all the circumstances of your life no matter what.

That is you're going to obey Him, leave all the consequences to Him.

You're going to obey Him in your life and watch him work. Or you're

going to have to keep hustling back and forth. What shall I do about this and how

shall I answer that God does not intend for his children to be harassed of those kind of decisions.

Now, sometimes we have to pray and find out what the will of God is.

But the bottom line should always be, I'm going to obey God no matter what and yet most Christians

will never come to that conclusion. It's like you have to evaluate. We say we

believe that he is a God who is all wise and has the best in store for us.

If that's true, then the issue is not, shall I shall I not?

What are people going to say?

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