Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, July 1st.

Dr Stanley's life principal series continues today as we learn more about God's

promise to provide.

I want to talk about this whole issue of the fact that

God assumes full responsibility for meeting our needs when we obey him.

This is who God is.

If somebody says, well, what kind of God do you serve?

He is a God who is interested in our needs.

He's a God who has the ability to meet our needs needs and he's a God who fulfills his promise.

That's who he is. And so with that in mind I can rest assured that if I have a need, I know where to go, and I go where the one is who can meet that need.

Now somebody says okay I have needs in my life and I believe what Paul says why why am I not getting my needs met?

We agree that God is capable of meeting the needs.

We agree that he's a god of integrity, that he not only has the power to do it, but he fulfills what he promises,

and all through the scripture we see his fulfilled promises, then why has he not met my needs?

He says, one of the reasons people don't get their needs met is because they walk in sin and disobedience to God and therefore he doesn't do it. Those who walk blameless, uprightly,

he says he will not withhold any good thing from us, whatever that might be.

There's a second reason, that is, I must be willing to ask. be And the 24th verse, which is an awesome verse, he says,

Therefore I said to you, watch this, all things for which you pray and ask,

believe that you have received them and they will be granted to you.

All things that you ask.

Now he also says, for example, if you ask not, you have not.

If I should ask you to... for example, if you ask not, you have not.

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