Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday September 20th.

When our requests to God seem urgent and packed with great emotion, it's easy to want to

act fast. Today we are reminded to slow down as we keep up with

God's schedule.

Do you feel sometimes that God's late that he's either ignored you, he's not shown up somewhere, something's

going on, you feel guilty, you've sent against him, though it's, why does he show up so late? You know, I've never heard anybody saying,

God was, he was just in a big hurry. I mean, God was ahead of me. Most of the time, we're

complaining about him being too late. And the reason is because he has his schedule, we have

ours. And oftentimes we forget the fact that he knows a whole lot more about the right schedule

than we do. And think about this.

He's the one who owns the clock.

He knows all about time and he's above time but he's also in the midst of it.

And so one of the reasons we step out of his will.

One of the reasons we miss his blessing

is because we never stop to think,

what's God's schedule?

What is his timing?

What is he up to in my life?

And simply because we can't see it,

it's not a good reason to just do it our own way,

and manipulate circumstances so that we think,

well, you know, we'll get what we want one way or the other that's not

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