Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, November 8th.

What happens to your faith when bad things occur?

Let's learn how to keep on trusting the Lord with a lesson on strengthening our wavering faith.

The key to your whole Christian life is your faith. For example, that's how you were saved. That's how you have a

personal relationship with God through his son Jesus Christ. When you come to

pray, there's always the issue of faith. When it comes to healing and asking God for

healing there's always the issue of faith. In fact your whole daily life is an

expression of faith, either your unbelief, your doubt, or your faith.

And yet, in spite of all that, in the fact that we know it,

there's one aspect of our faith that all of us have to deal with continually.

We don't like to deal with it. We'd like to eliminate it

once and for all, but somehow we don't or we can't. So I want you to turn, if you will, to

James Chapter 1. And you'll recall that he's writing here to those who are going through

difficulty in hardship and persecution, so having introduced it in the first

verse he begins the second verse by saying. Consider it all joy my brethren when you

encounter various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces

endurance and let endurance have its perfect result that

you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing. But if any of you lacks

wisdom let him ask of God who gives to all men or women generously and without reproach and it will be

given to him but let him ask in faith without any doub, but he who doubts is like the surf of the sea,

driven and tossed by the wind. But let not that man expect that he will receive anything from the

Lord being a double-minded man unstable in all his ways.

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