Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday to

Live 25th with all the voices you hear each day. How do you determine what God is saying?

Here's an explanation of God's goal in communicating.

God never says anything unless it is very important and worth remembering. He doesn't engage in any

kind of chit chat. He doesn't preface his remarks with anything and God doesn't speak for 15 minutes

and finally get around to the point. God is always at the point. He makes no introduction.

He doesn't talk just to be talking. God always has something specific to say. He says it precisely.

He says it concisely and it always without fail has something to do with our need. Now it may

involve other people but God is always speaking to our need. It may be that we have a need to become

involved in somebody else's life or it may be that God wants to do something in our own or to say

something to us but God always has our need in mind when he's speaking. Now if God is speaking

and I'm doing the listening if I want to be sure that I hear what God is saying one of the things I

need to settle or to learn is this. What is God's primary objective or objectives? What is his

goal or what is his goals in speaking to me in the beginning? That is if I really want to hear what

God is saying and be able to listen to him and know that I've heard from God one of the best things

I can do is to learn what God's purpose or his goal is in the beginning of speaking to you are to me.

That's what I want to talk about. I want to give you three words that I want you to listen carefully.

Three simple words here is what God has in mind when he speaks to you and to me he always has

these three things as his goal so it's a three-fold goal. Number one when God speaks to our heart his

first goal is we may comprehend the truth. Get that word down, comprehend which means that we may be

able to grasp it. We may be able to seize it and we may be able to understand fully what he is saying.

God never speaks in riddles that is he's going to speak to your life in a way that you can

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