In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, the fulfillment of a promise.

It's one thing to know a promise of the Scripture is something else to experience it.

So when we talk about the promises of God, the Bible is full of them.

We talked about many people say there are 40,000, 32,000, 8,000, as we said before,

the important thing is not how many, but the fact that God has kept every promise he's made and he's never forgotten a single one.

His promises come in two forms.

They're either conditional, which means

he makes a promise condition upon something

that must happen or must not happen.

And he makes an unconditional promise,

which means he promises something is going to happen,

and regardless of the circumstances, it will happen and cannot change.

He's an awesome loving God who desires to give us promises

by which we're to live.

And if you'll think about it for a moment,

many people wonder why God doesn't answer their prayer.

One of the primary reasons is the fact they ask

for things that are not the will of God.

And secondly, they doubt. And one of the primary reasons people doubt God answering their

petition is because they don't have any foundation for it. That is, they ask, and it's a matter

of feeling and hoping and wishing,

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