Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, January 20th.

Anything of value takes time and effort, and the pursuit of God is no exception.

Let's discover more as you listen to today's podcast.

Well, I want to talk about three things.

First thing I want to talk about is what is involved, what is involved in

pursuing after God. All right, there's several things here. The first is a prerequisite

for knowing God. A prerequisite, that is, before you'll ever learn who God is, you will have to pursue him.

You say, well, no, wait a minute. Doesn't God reveal himself to man? He does. But remember what

he said in Matthew in the sermon on the mouth, blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness.

They are the ones who shall be filled. God placed

within your heart a hunger when you were saved. He opened a whole new world of spirituality to your

life. Either you nourish that and pursue God and make Him Lord of your life, or you let that

begin to dwindle and you cease to feed that

hunger and now really doesn't make a whole lot of difference whether you know much about him or not.

But a prerequisite to knowing God is to pursue Him.

When you begin to pursue God, what you're going to discover, number two, is that the divine pruning process is going to begin in your life.

Number two is pruning.

So what does he do?

He begins to expose those little shoots and growths in your life that he wants to cut off.

So as you pursue God and seek after him to be like him and to know him,

what you and I realize before long is we must be willing to shed those experiences,

those habits, those attitudes, those activities in our life,

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