Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, September 4th.

Is your life making an impact for the glory of God?

The answer to that question is directly proportional to the strength of your connection to God through

prayer.

The apostles had watched the Lord Jesus Christ heal, they had watched Him teach, they had

watched Him perform miracle after miracle, but there was something very unusual about Him

when He had come out of a place of private prayer.

And so in this particular verse it says, it came to pass that as He was praying in a certain

place, when He finished, one of those disciples said to Him, Lord, teach us to pray.

Now not just so much how to pray, but Lord teach us to pray as John also taught His disciples

to pray.

Now you know that Jesus prayed at His baptism, He prayed when He was tempted by Satan

all throughout His life, He was praying, and He was God.

Now if the Lord Jesus Christ who was God felt the need to begin His day in prayer, and

felt the need to end His day in prayer, and felt the need to pray all night long before

He made great decisions, how much more should you and I feel the need of personal private

prayer?

How in the world can you not develop a relationship with God the Father through His Son, Jesus

Christ?

If we're always with someone else and always in the midst of noise and always in the process

of doing this and going there and being busy here in Yanda, it is absolutely impossible

to build a relationship with Jesus Christ where there is no time given to Him alone.

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