Welcome to the In Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, November 10th.

As our series on Walking by Faith moves forward, we look at Abraham,

the Old Testament Patriarch, who chose to believe God could do the impossible.

When you trust that the Lord Jesus Christ is your personal Savior, you immediately entered into a life of faith. That is you entered into a sense of

confident assurance that the God of the Bible is God and that not only is he who he says he is, but he will do everything he promised

to do. Now the only problem is that most of us did not and probably no one really understood

all of that when they first trusted Jesus Christ as their

Savior. So what really happens is God puts us in the school of faith. He places us

there to learn the most basic principles of

scripture and to learn how to live for him and to learn how to live in a world that

is in opposition to him. When we talk about faith we're talking about just that and that is

a confident assurance that the God of the Bible is God and that he will do exactly

what he promises to do. How do we live that kind of life in a world in which we have to live?

Well, we have to learn how to do it.

How do we learn to walk the walk of faith? How do we learn to live the life of faith? Well what I want to do in this message is I want to talk about this whole idea of faith again.

I want to talk about the requirements for learning to walk by faith? Because it isn't something

you automatically know, it's something you learn by trial and error, by study and stumbling,

and by faltering and falling and getting up and moving on again.

But I think there are some principles that you and I can learn that will help us

and so I want you to turn if you will to Genesis chapter 12.

Now the Lord said Abram, go forth from your country and from your relatives and from your

father's house to the land which I will show you.

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