Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, April 4.

How can you be sure God is dependable when things aren't turning out the way you expect?

Get some help understanding the basics of His trustworthiness and part one of the faithfulness of God.

Alright, if you'll turn to Psalm 89, Psalm 89, we're talking about the faithfulness of God.

And the 89th Psalm, I just want us to read several verses here, not the whole Psalm, concerning His faithfulness beginning in verse 1.

I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever.

With my mouth will I make known by faithfulness to all generations.

For I have said, mercies shall be built up forever, thy faithfulness shall thou establish in the very heavens.

Verse 5, and the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

Verse 8, O Lord God of hosts, who is the strong Lord like unto thee, are to thy faithfulness round about thee.

Verse 24, But my faithfulness and my mercies shall be with Him, and in my name shall His horn be exalted.

Verse 33, Nevertheless, my loving kindness will not only take from Him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

My covenant will on our break, no all to the thing that has gone out of my lips.

Now, when I personally think of the attributes of God, to me, and I think we all, it depends upon the experiences we've had, and how the Lord's worked in our lives,

all of us, probably as we go through these attributes, characteristics of God and His personality, all of us will find one that best, or maybe stands out above all the rest for us because of something that God has done in our life.

But as I think of his attributes, the one that stands out above all the rest is this, that I know that my God is faithful.

When the bottom drops out, I can trust Him, when all hell breaks loose, I can trust Him, when the floods of blessings that come, I can trust Him.

He is trustworthy and dependable.

Now, as we've gone through these attributes, I want you to remember two or three things.

First of all, the attributes of God are never in conflict with each other.

You will never find one that puts a strain on the other one.

They're always complementing each other because you see, you can't have faithfulness without immutability.

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