Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, January 30th.

Have you ever felt spiritually dry?

No passion in your worship, no life in your prayers, no excitement in your spirit? your of seeking the Lord. 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 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.

And 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. Well what's required of me? Can I say

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