Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, November 14th.

Psalm 139 tells us that God paid close attention when he created you.

Just imagine how much he has planned for the rest of your life.

Join us now for more on God's loving desire for you.

I don't know all of God's will for anyone else's life, but this I do know that God has

certain desires for your life and my life.

And that is the theme of this message, and the title of the message is this, God's

loving desire for you.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to First Timothy. And in First

Timothy, the second chapter, Paul is talking about worship in the church and praying. And in

the midst of that, he tells us something here concerning God's desire for us that I think

it would be helpful if you and I understood this because

it'll make a difference in how we see ourselves, how we see God, how we look at life.

So he begins by saying in chapter 2 verse 1, first of all, then, I urge that in treatise and

prayers, petitions, and thanksgiving be made on behalf of all men

for kings and all who are in authority in order that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life and all godliness and dignity.

This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come

to the knowledge of the truth. But there is one God and one mediator, also between God and men,

the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all the testimony born at the proper time.

And for this, I was upon the preacher.

And an apostle, I'm telling the truth. I'm not lying. As a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. Therefore, I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without wrath

and dissension. And so Paul in the midst of this admonition to pray, lifting up holy hands without wrath and dissension. And so Paul in the midst of this admonition

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