Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday June 14th.

Have you ever had a hard time knowing what God wants you to do?

Dr Stanley's life principal series reminds us that knowing God's will and big things

begins by obeying him in the small things.

The will of God is one of the most important aspects of your life and he is committed to showing

you his will if you're willing to seek it. Now sometimes it isn't easy to find

sometimes it comes easy sometimes it's over a prolonged period of time, as you and I

begin to put the pieces together and we begin to see what the will of God is.

Sometimes it's very unreasonable. And so what I want to talk about is. Sometimes it's very unreasonable. And so what I want to talk about in this message is just that.

The unreasonable will of God, because all of us have faced it, and we will face it.

Times when the Lord requires of us something that's totally unreasonable. We say, well, you know, that doesn't

make sense. And so why should I do something till I can fully understand it? So I want you to turn to a passage of scripture that

beautifully illustrates this and it's in the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Luke.

So let's look to see what's happening here. What's happening is that Jesus is walking along and so he

begins to teach and the crowd comes and so he's standing on the edge and what happens when you

have a big crowd like that is that the people who the furthest back

they want to see and they want to hear a little bit better so without even

intending to do it little by little they just you know people behind them feel them and next thing you know

the crowd moves up closer and closer it'll finally he's either standing in the water

or close to it and so he sees Peter here cleaning his nets and so he just goes over and gets in

Peter's boat and he says just push out a little way so I can be able to speak to

all of them because the acoustics are better if he's 50 feet out in the water or 25 or 30

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