Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Do you ever wonder what it would be like to hear the voice of God the way Moses, Joshua, or Isaiah did?

Today, you'll be reminded that God does speak in ways that still communicate his will very clearly.

When you think about God, how do you think about Him? Do you think about him as a power or as a person?

God is a loving, warm, intimate father who desires the best for his children, who desires

a relationship with us, who desires to communicate with us. And because he desires to communicate with us,

he wants to give himself away to us. It is one of those aspects of his communication with us

that I want to talk about in this message. I want to talk about the call of God. And I want

if you will, to turn to 1 Samuel in the third chapter. And this is the event of God's

call to a young man. And there's more than one type of God's call. And so what I want to talk about

in this passage are those calls that God sends into every single one of our lives. And you may be one of

those persons who says, well, I've never heard God speak to me.

It just might be that you'll discover why.

It just may be that you'll discover this message that he has been calling.

Maybe you've not been listening.

Maybe you couldn't identify it.

And therefore, you may have missed some wonderful opportunities had you only been listening.

To give you a little background, Eli's the priest. Young Samuel, has been taken to Eli to be a helper to him. And in the process, God has chosen to call

young Samuel to be a prophet in Israel. And I want you to notice beginning in verse two. And it happened

at that time as Eli was lying down in his place. Now his eyesight had

begun to grow dim and he couldn't see well. And the lamp of God had not yet gone out and Samuel was

lying down in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was. It was then that the Lord called Samuel

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