Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

What set the great men and women of the Bible apart?

It was their bold, unwavering trust in God.

In today's episode, discover how you can cultivate the same kind of faith,

a faith that transforms ordinary days into an extraordinary life.

The Bible has many accounts of different kinds of people,

and they're all ordinary people through whom God has done some extraordinary things.

And oftentimes we think that these have to be very gifted, talented, skilled people with maybe

lots of education, all the rest. But here's a whole book of people who were ordinary in their day.

But when God touched their life, when God spoke to them, and they responded in the proper way,

God made their life extraordinary.

Now, the question is this, what factor in their life, what element in their life made it possible for them to step out of the ordinary into the extraordinary?

What was true of them? Can the same thing be true of you? And the

answer is yes, because God has not changed. He's still using ordinary people. So what I want to do

in this passage of Scripture is this. I want to give you a picture of what the life of faith is about.

And we're going to turn to the 11th chapter of the book of Hebrews and read those first six

verses, though we'll cover more, because in the Word of God are these brief sketches of God's

Old Testament saints and how he used ordinary people in that day to do the most extraordinary things.

The right of Hebrews does two very important things when he begins this chapter in talking about all of these Old Testament saints.

Because what he says about them is so awesome when you and I begin to understand how it applies to your life and

mind because you see there's one thing about God's word we can sing about the old-time religion

and we can talk about the ancient scrolls and so forth the message of the word of God

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