Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, August 31st.

The Bible instructs believers to pray and not give up.

But how do you know if what you ask is within God's plan?

Today, you'll hear how to pray in the will of God.

Oftentimes we come to prayer and we say, well, one of the problems I have is I don't

know that if what I'm asking is right or wrong.

Is it of myself?

Is it of God?

Is something selfish that I won't?

Is this the will of God?

How do I know that I have the right to ask this of God?

And how do I know that God's going to answer my prayer?

Well, I'm not even sure that what I'm asking for is legitimate as far as He's concerned.

So I think all of us have come to times in our life and recognized when we knelt to

pray, we were sort of shooting in the dark, that our first request to God about a given

situation was something that we had no earthly idea at the moment.

Whether it's God's will or not.

So we just thought I had a shoot out in the dark and listened to hope that God heard us and

made some kind of response.

I don't believe that's the way God wants his people pray.

Now, when you think about it, we've talked about it.

Here is an omnipotent that is an unlimited, powerful God who is loving in His Spirit,

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