Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, January 9th.

Abraham had an extraordinary relationship with God.

By studying his response to the Lord, believers in Jesus can learn how to have courage to move forward by faith.

Everything God calls us to do in our life, he calls us to move forward, never backwards.

And that is always an active faith on our part.

And if you recall the Bible says, we're saved by faith, we walk by faith, we die by faith, we pray by faith, everything is the result of faith.

And so as you think about the life of faith and how God works in your life, I want us to look at the life of Abraham just in one chapter, this 12th chapter of Genesis. I want us to see four things primarily.

First one is this, and you'll be wise to jot this down. The call of faith oftentimes is a call to step out into the

unknown, to go where we are unfamiliar to some area and some direction that is untried and that is

unknown to us. Now, let me say very quickly.

The call of faith is oftentimes a call to step out to the unknown.

Listen, unknown to me, yes.

Unknown to those about me, yes.

Unknown to God?

No.

God has never asked you and me to step out in anything that is unknown to him. So if you'll notice what God said to

Abraham here, he says, I want you to go forth from your country, from your relatives, from your

father's house, to the land which I will show you. He didn't have any idea where he's going at first.

And if you'll turn to Hebrews chapter 11, and the right of Hebrews, speaking of this very

incident, makes this extremely clear in this 11th chapters. He's talking about Abraham's call.

He says in the eighth verse of the 11th chapter of Hebrews, he says, by faith, Abraham, when he was

called, obeyed by going out to a place, which he was to receive as an inheritance.

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