Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, July 17th.

Today's study takes you back in time to about 450 BC

when Jerusalem was in ruins.

But this is more than a history lesson.

The story of Nehemiah challenges us to turn to God

and trust Him to do the impossible.

Well, life presents all kind of problems and sometimes we don't know how to respond.

Sometimes we think Lord where are you in the midst of all this?

Why don't you do something?

And sometimes we think well, Lord if you really and truly love me you wouldn't let this happen or if you really truly love me you'd show me what to do with this one in my life.

So sometimes we are perplexed, we don't know exactly

what to do, but there is always one thing that is the right thing to do, every single

solitary time. And that's what I want to talk about in this message.

So I want you to turn if you will to the book of Nehemile because here's what

you're going to find in this book that throughout the book of Nehemiah every time he comes to a

situation or circumstance that is a problem or a threat without fail or if he's seeking guidance and direction without fail he is a man who

lived on his knees.

That is he learned the awesome power of prayer. He learned the most miraculous things that God would be

willing to do in him, through him, for him, and to him as a result of it. And so when we think

about that I think about the principle that is so evident here.

And that is we stand tallest and strongest on our knees.

And I simply mean by that this, we make the greatest impact and we experience

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