Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley. Do you need a word of encouragement from God?

Are you open to hearing his voice today? Join us as we study Second Samuel and discover the discipline of sitting before the Lord.

If you'll turn to Second 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 2nd Samuel to see the character

qualities that are 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.

Now, that phrase is also found in First Chronicles, which also

relates the same event here in his life. But 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. And let me just

say this to you. I made it a policy

a long time ago, and it works. When somebody comes to me or 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,

God gave me through somebody that I wouldn't have expected it would have come that way.

So when somebody says, I believe God's telling me to tell you this,

you must be very careful, but don't just toss that out and say, well, you know,

says who, you're not as spiritual as I am, or, you know,

how do I know that God's telling you? You don't know that. That's why you and I need to be very

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