Welcome to the Intouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday October 2nd.

The life of the Apostle Peter reminds us that, with a heart bent towards God,

even our failures become tools for growth.

Let's end the series on The Ways of God, with a reminder that God always rewards

obedience.

This is the series The Ways of God. The Ways of God we mean how we think, how he operates, why he makes decisions, why he chooses what he chooses, why he plans their life the way he does and how he responds to to our responses so the title of this message

is simply this the ways of God God always rewards obedience that's one of his

ways that's his nature that's's his character. He's more than willing to reward us for our obedience in large things, simple things, commonplace things. That's who he is. But now I want you to watch the process as he operates

in Peter's life is the very same way he operates in your life and my life. Very

important you get this. If you want to live a Christian life,

walking obedience to God, watch this carefully. There are lots of passages you and I can turn

to, but this is a very important message because it could save you a lot of trouble a lot of heartache

a lot of burdens or you can ignore it and just suffer on through like most people do. And so I've chosen the past

subscription in the New Testament that best describes this process, this awesome

process by which you and I come to the conclusion and arrive at the conclusion,

it's the wisest thing to obey God every single time.

So I want you to turn, if you will, to Luke Chapter 5, and I want us to read this account of

an incident that happens in the life of the Apostle Peter.

We could choose many others, but this describes it so well. And I think there's something here

that all of us need to be reminded of once in a while, but I want to say again, if you've

never come to that definite moment in your life when you've said I'm going to obey God.

That's going to be my lifestyle. That's how I'm going to live. That's the bottom line.

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