Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, August 8th.

Today's episode helps you cultivate a close friendship with the Lord and live each day walking with God.

If you could take a long walk with someone of your choice, ask them anything you'd like to ask them,

and share your heart with them and just open your

heart to that person and tell them anything you wanted to tell them who would you choose

would it be somebody who is very close to you would it be someone that you have admired at a

distance maybe somebody in the field of music or maybe science or the arts or maybe an

education, maybe your vocation, maybe someone who's helped you a great deal spiritually.

Who would it be?

Well, what about God?

What about taking a walk with him and tell him anything you want to tell him ask him anything you want to ask him

and you may be surprised of how very clearly he may answer your questions what better person to

take a walk with than god well what i want to talk about in this message is just that, walking with God.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to a passage that is familiar to most of us, and that is

Genesis chapter 6. And I would simply ask you in the very beginning, if somebody should ask you

today, you are a believer who is walking with God? What would you say? Well, more than likely you'd say, well,

I'm saved, so yes, I am. But it takes more than that. And what I want to talk about is what is

involved in really and truly walking with God. Beginning in verse five, then the Lord saw that the

wickedness of man was great on the earth and that every intent of his thoughts of his heart was only

evil continually.

And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and was grieved in his heart.

And the Lord said, I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land,

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