Welcome to the In Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, January 14th.

When you sense God nudging you in a specific direction, do you respond immediately or hesitate?

Today's podcast challenges you to consider the costs of delay and the consequences that come when you offer resistance to commitment.

Let's learn how timely obedience can open doors to blessing, while hesitation can lead to unnecessary

struggle.

How many times has God required to you something? And you said, Lord, but suppose this and

what you did, you paraded before God all the things that could possibly happen.

And when you built your case, looking at your own case, you became so fearful.

You said, well, God, there's no way for me to do that.

Suppose any one of these things happen.

And then what will happen to me?

You see, if you, my friend, will be honest, one of the primary reasons we don't obey god is we are afraid

of the results of the circumstances because we don't know the circumstances we don't know the

ultimate outcome we say oh lord but if you'll just tell me what's going to happen and assure

me that everything is going to be all right then i'll do it it. That isn't obedience and that isn't faith. That's trying to fit God into your

mold and trying to make him fit into your plan so that you're not trusting God, not obeying God.

You're just following by sight, not by faith. He's not going to do that. Let me ask

you this, how many blessings have you missed in your life because you're afraid to trust God?

What have you missed in your business life because you're afraid to trust God? What have you missed

in your relationship to others? Wouldn't open up. Wouldn't be honest.

Wouldn't be open.

Wouldn't become transparent.

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