Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, October 7th.

Have you ever been frustrated by what seems like a delay in answer to your prayers?

Let's investigate that common experience in part two of learning to pray the Bible way.

Would you say that your prayer life is rather a haphazard response to needs and desires,

or is it the nourishing of the life of the Lord Jesus Christ within you?

Because you see, when you gave your life to Jesus Christ, he came into your life to live.

And it is in prayer that we nourish our relationship

with him. And some of you are struggling in your prayer life. You ask and nothing seems to happen much.

In fact, you've sort of wondered if God's really listening anymore. In fact, you really wonder if he even

cares because you've brought this to him and this and this and somehow nothing's really happened and you don't see anything going on.

And surely if God's the God he says he is, why doesn't he do something?

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 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. And in the midst of the sermon on the mount jesus said beginning in

verse seven ask and it shall be given to you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be open to you

for everyone who asks receives and he who seeks finds and to him who knocks it shall be opened or what man is there

among you when his son shall ask him for a loaf or bread will give him a stone or if he shall ask for a fish

will he he will not give him a snake will he if you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children,

how much more shall your father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask him?

Now, one of the reasons Jesus has made this very clear and very specific in the steps he's given us is because

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