Welcome to the in-touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, November 15th.

Is your faith in God strong and reliable?

Today's podcast helps encourage our little faith to grow into a confident belief in a God who does great things

All the way through the scripture God emphasizes the fact that you not a place place are trusting him to believe who he is

and to believe that he will do exactly what he promises to do. Now what I want to

talk about in this message is this. I want to give you three stages of faith. The title of this message is the stages of

faith. There are three stages of faith and I think it's in the scripture and

I think certainly as I look back in my own life and see how the Lord has worked in my own heart,

I believe there are three specific stages of faith in a person's life.

And let me say, and I'm going to say this more than once.

This does not mean that every time you ask God

for something you have to go through all three of these stages. It would be

wonderful if we could start out with every prayer request on stage number three but we don't. So I want to begin with this first

stage and the first stage of our faith is little faith. I'm going to ask you to give it back

to me in a moment, little faith, and I think in terms of little

faith as being restless faith.

That is, little faith always has this twinge of doubt.

When we look at little faith, we look at faith that is struggling, faith that is restless,

our faith that oftentimes gives up, and let me say in the very beginning here, there's nothing wrong

with struggling faith because that's where we all

began. When you first trusted Jesus Christ as you're saving somebody said well the

Bible says asking it should be given you, seeking you should find knocking it shall be

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