Welcome to the In-Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, June 28.

Do you need a word of encouragement from our Heavenly Father?

Are you in a position to hear what God might say?

Let's continue studying the discipline of sitting before the Lord.

If you'll turn to 2 Samuel, chapter 7,

and if you'll recall where we were last time,

and we have gone through this passage as we looked at these first 10 chapters of 2 Samuel,

to see the character qualities that I found in David, which is so beautiful,

but there is one phrase in this seventh chapter, verse 18,

which I think is probably, to me personally, such a beautiful thought.

It says, in verse 18, then went King David in and sat before the Lord.

That phrase also found in first chronicles, which also relates the same event here in his life.

Let me tell you what's happening here.

What's motivating David now to leave his house and go into the tabernacle and just sit before the Lord.

Two things. First of all, the prophet Nathan has said to him,

God has given me a message for you, and this is it.

And the second thing that motivated him was that David wanted to know what was meant by all that God had said to him through the prophet Nathan.

Let me just say this to you.

I made it a policy a long time ago, and it works.

When somebody comes to me, he says, here's what I believe God has told me to tell you.

I'm here to tell you, brother. I'm all ears.

I always listen because I've been surprised in the past that what very clear, definite direction,

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