Welcome to the Intouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, December 27th.

It's much easier to follow God's commands when we've gotten to know him.

And we get to know him by spending time with him in prayer and Bible study.

Here's part two of the fear of the Lord.

When a man a woman fears God what are they doing? They're in the word,

glaining the principles of God. They're building a strong family.

And a man, a woman who's in the word of God, and building a strong family,

learning to fear the Lord, hating and despising evil.

Hating and despising evil is sharpening up my discerning spirit.

It is sharpening up my discernment so that in my business and in my financial affairs I'm going to make

wise decisions because I'm fearing God I am submissive to him I'm waiting upon

him I'm listening to him and I'm not taking shortcuts by cheating my

brother doing dishonest things and losing my integrity in the process a A wise man, a person, a man, a woman who fears God will be blessed

of God both spiritually and materially for the simple reason that those who fear him have a discernment about the circumstances of

their life that oftentimes is not there.

The question is this, do you want God's very best in your life or do you want to keep on playing around sin,

quoting evil, compromising your conviction,

while at the same time you're trying to get what God has offered freely, but it'll never be there because you do not fear

God. You see, a person who plays with sin and courts its disaster doesn't fully love the living God with all of his

mind, all of his heart, all of his soul as God has warned us and has admonished us.

Let's move on. Listen to what he says.

He says, now wealth and riches are in his house and his righteousness into us forever.

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