Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, September 17th.

Believers who seek spiritual guidance must be diligent and persistent.

Today, let's discover practical steps to strengthen your journey to know the Lord more deeply.

2nd Samuel chapter 7 and the first verse, 2 Samuel chapter 7 and the first verse 2 Samuel chapter 7 verse 1 now it came about when the king lived in his house

and the lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies so god had worked in david's life

in a wonderful way as a commanding general of his armies.

He says he gave him rest on every side from all of his enemies that the king said to Nathan, the

prophet, see now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within tents and

curtains, you know, the tabernacle that had been carrying through the wilderness all these years.

He said, now here I am in this beautiful house made of cedar. And Nathan said to the king,

go do all that is in your mind for the Lord is with you. But it came about in the same night that the

word of the Lord came to Nathan, the prophet saying, go and say to my servant David, thus says the Lord, are you the one who should

build me a house to dwell in? For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the

sons of Israel from Egypt even to this day. But I've been moving about in the tent, even in the tabernacle.

Remember that tabernacle was symbolical of the presence of God. And the Holy of Holies,

it's where God resided, where he met the people.

Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, which I commended to shepherd my people, Israel saying, why have you not built me a house of cedar?

Now therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, thus says the Lord of

host, I took you from the pasture from following the sheep that you should be ruler over my people

Israel. And I've been with you wherever you've gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you.

And I will make you a great name like the names of the great men who are on the earth.

I will also point a place for my people Israel and will plant them that they may live in their own

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