Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, January 8th.

We can gain valuable insights from the men and women of the Bible, like Abraham, who trusted God's guidance.

In this podcast, we'll explore how his faith-filled response to God offers inspiration for believers seeking to live a life of faith.

Our God is a loving, kind, and good Heavenly Father,

who always desires the very, very best for us.

In fact, not only does he desire it,

he provides the very best for us every single time.

That is, in every decision that we're trying to make,

in everything that we're asking for, whatever God provides is his very, very best. Now, one of the questions we have to ask is,

if that's true, why do I not experience his best? And why is it that that doesn't always work out

that way in my life? Well, the primary reason is because

we failed to use the key that unlocks the treasure house to God's best, and that is the key of

faith. And all through the scriptures, he tells us again and again and again to trust him, to believe him,

to follow him, to obey him,

but it all boils down to trusting him and believing him. One of the ways that he teaches his faith

is not only by what he does in our life, one of the ways he teaches his faith is in the Word.

And one of the ways he teaches his faith in his word is how he works in the

lives of others. And thinking back in the Old Testament how he worked in the lives of Old Testament saints

and purposing in my heart to go back and start reading how God worked in their lives to see,

Lord, would you do the same thing in my life in your own way? And so I began to read

Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David, Daniel somehow became my favorite ones. And as I began to read and to

search how God worked in their life, though we were talking about several thousand years earlier,

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