Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, February 9th.

Anxiety and impatience can keep you from hearing God's voice.

In today's podcast, you'll learn how to clearly discern God's guidance during stressful times.

What do you do in time of a crisis?

Well, you surely pray.

But how do you pray in such a way that God hears and answers that prayer?

Well that's what I want to talk about in today's message entitled,

Praying in a crisis.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to James Chapter 5, and at the end of this crisis mentioned here,

there's a simple principle that usually gets lost because we get hung up on what happens before.

James chapter 5.

And you recall this is the chapter in which God is given to the church

the way you deal with sickness in the church and how you go about

seeing that those people experience healing and so he says in verse 13 is anyone

among you suffering let him pray? Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praises.

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him. Awning him with oil in the name of a law. him

for the elders of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick

and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has has committed sins they will be forgiven him.

Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed.

That's the next phrase, the effective prayer of a righteous man or a woman can

accomplish much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours and he prayed

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