Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, April 23rd.

A promise is only as reliable as the one who makes it.

That's why you can rest with confidence in every promise God has spoken,

because he is always faithful, always true, and never changing.

Here's more from the series, Grace for Today,

and what his unfailing word means for you.

Do you make up rules for yourself in order to discipline yourself

and find yourself breaking them?

And do you sort of harshly criticize yourself

when you don't live up to your own standards

and your own expectations.

Do you feel distant from God when you're not serving him or doing something that you would consider a sort of spiritual?

And do you feel close to God when you're doing something that you think is religious or spiritual?

And I wonder if oftentimes you feel driven by such phrases

as these in your thinking, I must, I should, I ought to. And I wonder if oftentimes you

entertain very accusing feelings of, I'm not sure I'm saved and I'm not sure I have done

exactly right.

And those feelings that cause you to feel insecure, inadequate, and not certain of your salvation.

Well, if that's true, more than likely, if these things happen to be the lifestyle that you're living,

you're living in an old lifestyle that God never intended.

Because you see,

Jesus talked about a new lifestyle. He called it a new covenant. And that's what I want to talk

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