Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, May 20th.

Are you truly walking in step with God?

In today's message, Dr. Stanley highlights the blessings that come when we obey the Lord.

Well, there's a whole lot more to the Christian life than most people realize.

And oftentimes when a person gets saved, they either fill out a card or walk down an aisle or go in the back room somewhere and finally they're baptized.

And so they just sort of leave them there.

And most of us would probably say that's what happened to us.

No one sat down and said, now that you've

received Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, here's what you can expect. So let's say, for example,

that you've trusted Jesus as your Savior, and here you, or maybe a young Christian, maybe you've been one a long time.

And the only thing you've ever done really sort of go to church, maybe read your Bible a little bit and pray some and maybe give a little bit. But what should you

be able to expect? What should you be able to anticipate when you trust the Lord Jesus Christ

is your personal savior? When you become a Christian, what can you anticipate? What does God say? So that's what I want to

answer in this message. What can you anticipate how God can work in your life once you trust him as your

Savior? He says he saved us, so he's our Savior. He's our Lord and our master. He's our God. This is what you and I can anticipate once we receive

him as our personal Savior. And so the first word is an intimate relationship. That is, when he saves us,

what is it he's after? He says, for example, that he predestined that you and I would be conformed

to the likeness of his son. And he says

several times in different ways, I and my father are one. You remember, for example, in Mark the first

chapter and the 35th verse, the Bible says, a great while before day, Jesus was out in the mountain

praying. What was he doing? Talking to the Father, listening to the Father,

sensing the Father's love, sensing the Father's guidance in his life. They had that awesome sense of

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