Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, May 12th.

A believer's ability to live a holy life is directly tied to time spent with the Lord.

Stay with us for simple guidelines for personal meditation.

If I could tell you this morning how to alleviate some of the pressure, a lot of the tension,

a lot of the stress, to quiet your turbulent, stormy insides, and to give you a little different

perspective on life, I wonder if you'd be interested enough that you would listen

and then you'd be interested enough to get yourself a pencil and a piece of paper, the guidelines

for your personal meditation. Let me give you a little background of what's happening.

The first verse of chapter 7 of 2nd Samuel says, it came about when the king lived in the house,

the Lord had given him rest on every side from all of his enemies. So David, who had spent most

of his life fighting, had now come to rest. The land had been conquered. And now he's living in this

beautiful cedar house that he has provided for himself. And he begins to think about the fact

that the Ark of the Covenant is still in a big himself, and he begins to think about the fact that the

Ark of the Covenant is still in a big tent. So he talks to Nathan, who is the prophet and also

his friend, and also shares with him his concern. Then the scripture says that Nathan

spoke with God about David, and God gave to Nathan a message to give to David.

And beginning in verse 8, it says, now therefore, thus you shall say to my servant, David.

Thus says the Lord of host. And then verses 8 down through verse 17.

Now many times he says, I have done this and I will do this and so forth for David.

And he starts off in verse 8 in a beautiful way saying, tell him this, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be ruler over my people, Israel.

And then he talks about all the things that he's done.

So when Nathan goes toid and shares with him what

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