Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, October 6th.

Today we begin a two-week study on what the Bible teaches about talking and listening to God.

Here's part one of learning to pray the Bible way.

When you pray, do you do so with confidence and assurance that God is going to hear and answer your prayer?

Or rather, are you harassed by such thought says, I'm so unworthy.

I feel so guilty for the past.

Could God ever answer my prayer?

Full of doubts, full of anxiety, sense of unworthiness,

frustration, and oftentimes get up and walk away thinking, well, what's the use of praying

anyway? In fact, on the scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your prayer life as far as specific answers to prayer? Well, all of us

have struggled at one point of the other in prayer, and I believe if you listen carefully

today, you're going to find a simple message that will help you in your faith in your talking

to God. The title of this message is learning to pray the Bible way.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to Matthew chapter 7, verses 7 through 11, one of the simplest

passages on prayer in all the Bible found in the sermon of the Mount. And I remember it is the

first passage on prayer that I have memorized.

I still know it by heart, just like you know your favorite ones.

And in the midst of the sermon on the Mount, Jesus said beginning in verse 7,

Ask, and it shall be given to you.

Seek and ye shall find.

Knock, and it shall be open to you. Forek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be open to you. For everyone who ask

receives and he who seeks finds and to him who knocks it shall be opened. Or what man is there

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