Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, January 19th. If you feel inconsistent

in your walk with God, this message is for you. Discover how to realign your heart, renew your focus,

and live with purpose in your pursuit of God. Now, people today are pursuing many things.

They're pursuing pleasure, and you can look around and see how much money people are

willing to spend in order to get a little temporal pleasure.

They're pursuing the gratification of their sexual desires.

People are pursuing sports.

There are people who are pursuing all kinds of prominence and position and prosperity and you name it. It is amazing.

What men will give their time and their heart and their energy and the expression of their abilities and their talents,

they will give everything within them in order to accomplish some things, the pursuit of

their mind, the pursuit of their soul, the pursuit of their very being expended on temporal

things that are neither fulfilling and oftentimes not enjoyable and certainly

do not bring contentment because people pursue a thing until they finally discover that doesn't

satisfy them then they switch their pursuit to something else and that's why people will pursue

everything imaginable they're lookingable. They're looking for

happiness. They're looking for peace. They're looking for joy. They're still searching and still

pursuing it and still longing for something in their heart to bring contentment and fulfill.

But I believe that a genuine, honest, spirit-filled Christian has within him and her, an inborn,

that is when the Holy Spirit brought about the new birth, an inborn hunger and pursuit after God.

Now watch this.

When you were born again by the Spirit of God, God placed within your heart instantaneously

and immediately a desire for himself, a hunger for him, an initiative within you that would motivate you to pursue God. Now watch this. You either fed that hunger.

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