Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, May 19th.

If you're like most people, we start with good intentions to strengthen our commitment to the Lord,

but often struggle to make it last.

Today, get a fresh mid-year reset with practical principles for consistently walking in step with God.

All of us need to learn how to walk in step with the Son of God, who is our Savior,

our Lord, and our Master. And there are a lot of verses in the Bible about walking, for example.

The first time you find anybody walking in the Bible is who? God. Walking in that third chapter

of Genesis when the Bible says, and the Lord came walking in the cool of the day. The next time,

just in the fifth chapter, the Bible says that Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him.

So we could go through lots of other verses. And of course, in the 23rd Psalm,

he says, yea, though I what? I walk to the shadow of death. And some folks say, I'd like to have

that run rather than walk, because we don't like those kind of times. The 30th chapter of Isaiah,

he talks about as we walk, we hear a voice behind us saying,

this is the way walk he ended.

In the 40th chapter of Isaiah, in that verse, it says, for example, if we wait upon the Lord,

we'll run and not be weary, we'll walk and not faint.

Then you go to the New Testament.

There are lots of verses, especially with the Apostle Paul.

He says in the 6th chapter Romans, he said, once you not trust Jesus as our Savior, we begin to do what

to walk in newness of life, not like we used to walk. We're not walking in step. We're the ones

we used to walk in step with. It's a new kind of life. And somewhere along the way, I think a lot of believers have forgotten the fact that it's a new kind of life. What makes it so new is this, that now it's not God up yonder and me down here doing the best I can. It's Jesus living on it inside of us through the Holy Spirit and doing what? He's the one who's living it out through us.

You say, well, if he's going to do it, I don't have any responsibility. Oh, yes, I do.

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