Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, February 5th.

If you've ever felt like God is far away, you may need help seeking the Lord.

Today's podcast offers insight to guide you on your journey toward a close friendship with Jesus.

Well, all through the scriptures, especially in the Old Testament, we're admonished to seek

the Lord.

So what in the world does it mean to seek Him?

Somebody says, well, why should I be seeking Him?

I've been a Christian for a pretty good while, and I don't know why I would have to be seeking

something I already have.

Well, I want you to listen carefully.

When we are admonished to seek the Lord, that means we're to come to him, asking for direction,

seeking to build a deeper, more intimate relationship with him because that's what he's up to.

He said he predestined that you and I would be conformed to the image of his son and that would involve

having an intimate relationship with him. So when I seek him, I want to know more about him. I want to

have a more intimate relationship. I want to talk to him. I want to listen to him. I want to have a

conversation with him. I want to be able to observe him working in my life in some fashion. If I'm seeking him, I want to have a conversation with him. I want to be able to observe him working in my life

in some fashion. If I'm seeking him, I want to know him better, more deeply, more intimately than ever

before. He says, we're to seek him. Now, which leads me to what I want to consider here for a moment,

that is, so we talk about listening

to him, seeking, and all this, what's required of me? What's required of us if we're to seek the

Lord? Listen, we're talking about having a relationship with Almighty God. What's required of me?

Can I say, well, you know, when I decide to pray I will,

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