Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, August 5th. Following the Lord

isn't always easy, but it's always worth it. In this final part of our series, you'll be

encouraged to strengthen your commitment to obey him no matter what comes your way.

God has planned the very best that a sovereign, omniscient God can plan for you, a God who

loves you unconditionally. And therefore, whatever his plans are, they're the best. And therefore,

if he has a plan, he has a method by which that plan is to be fulfilled. And there's a pathway

that you and I are to walk. In order to do that, we must have a

sense of direction. In order to get that sense of direction, we must come to him. And once we have that

sense of direction, we must be obedient. That is, if God says, here's my plan, here's the best plan

that I can come up with for you. And you decide that you'll go about fulfilling the plan your

way then my friend you're going to be disappointed god always has the best for us but it does require

us to be obedient to him and oftentimes we think the little things about we should do or should not

do and not significant every single command of God is significant.

Every time he tells you to me to do something or not to do it, it is very significant. What we don't

realize is we don't realize how significant is because we can't see the future consequences of what's

going to happen. So I want to talk to you today, and I want us to

open the scripture to Luke chapter 5. I want to talk about this whole idea of the enriching

rewards of obedience. Here's what's happening. Jesus is preaching on the shore, and naturally what

happens when people are standing around, the people in the back always want to get a little

closer. So what happens is they get a little closer to people in front of them. People in front of them

have to move. So they get a little closer. And what happens is the crowd moves closer and closer

to finally Jesus is having to speak over their heads. And so he turns and he sees these two boats and he

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