Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, December 29.

Today's program highlights Proverbs 3 to help you develop the faith to follow wherever God leads.

It's an act of God's grace that He has chosen a plan for your life and mind.

Wonderful grace of God that He has chosen a plan and is willing to show us what that plan is.

So we don't have to go through life wondering is my life going to count? What am I doing with myself?

What are others thinking? All of that. God in His awesome grace has a plan and a purpose for your life.

And therefore He has the pathway for you to walk because if He has a plan, there's a path.

Most people are going to live out their life never even thinking the fact that God has a will for them or a plan for them.

And they'll live it all out and come maybe toward the end of their life or maybe a few years before that.

And look back and think what was all that about? What did I miss? Where was God in all of this?

And I can tell you, God knew from the very beginning His plan and purpose and will for your life.

The sooner you discover what that pathway is, you get on His path, then the sooner and the better and the happier and the most peaceful,

the more prosperous you're going to be in your life, no matter what's going on.

But you have to believe that. You have to believe that God loves you enough to have a plan.

He loves you enough to get you into the plan.

He has a pathway that's the best path for you if you will and to follow it.

One of the most familiar verses in the Bible or passages is in Proverbs chapter 3.

And I want us to read these first eight verses. Look if you will beginning in verse 1 of Proverbs chapter 3.

He says, my son, do not forget my teaching what a wonderful way to begin.

But let your heart keep my commandments. For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

So how you live makes a difference. Do not let kindness and truth leave you.

Bind them around your neck, write them on the table of your heart. So you will find favor and good to put.

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