Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, March 3rd.

When biblical principles are ignored, we often end up where we never intended to be.

This is true for individuals, communities, and even nations.

Here's part two of staying on track.

If you said to the engineer who said, we have a 500-mile trip here, and this is the

way this train is going, and suppose you said, well, look, when we get over here about 200 miles,

why don't we just take a left turn somewhere?

Well, the engineer is not going to do that because he knows you'll never get to your destination.

Watch this unless you stay on track.

And every time you get off track, what happens? You get a big locomotive off track and it takes

cranes, it takes all kind of things and time and days to get them back on track. When a Christian

gets off track, watch this carefully, you lose time, you lose blessing, you lose all kind of things

in your Christian life. Because only as you and I are walking in his will and doing what

he asks us to do, are we going to get blessed? Now, so what I want to do in this message is this.

I want to give you a track. It's just a track that I know that has worked for me for a long, long time.

It was a long time before I ever called it a track.

But the more I thought about it, the more I realized this is my track.

This is what keeps me aware of where I am in my Christian life.

So I want to encourage you to jot down these notes.

Then God will show you how to apply that to your own life. But the first stage of this track

is number one, and that is, schedule prayer and meditation in the Word as the daily priority of your life. This is the way the Christian

life should start every day, and that is with the Father. He knows everything you're going to face.

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