Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, January 27th. Do you feel like you call out to God,

but it seems like he's too far away to hear you? Today, you'll be reassured that even when God is

silent, he is very active in our lives. Have you ever felt like God was giving you the silent treatment?

I mean, you prayed and asked him to give you direction for your life.

Didn't hear a thing.

Maybe you are going through some physical illness and sickness,

and you are asking God to heal you, and somehow nothing's happening.

You see your kids heading in the wrong direction?

You're praying for God to speak to their heart. You don't sense anything's going on. You just feel

like God's giving you the silent treatment, that he's out yonder somewhere, over here, but somewhere

along the way you've missed him. How do you respond when you have those feelings?

Do you really believe that God is just, is not interested? Do you think that somehow he's

really distant from you? Is it that you're just feeling these things, or is it that God

really and truly doesn't care? But in your mind and your heart and your emotions, you believe you feel somehow God is giving

you the silent treatment when you really and truly need him.

Well, God is sometimes very silent, and it's difficult for us to accept it, especially

when we are hurting.

I think that's the most painful time.

If you're physically hurting and nothing's going on, it's very, very discouraging.

Well, does he have a purpose for it?

Yes, he does.

Is there a certain way you and I ought to respond?

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