Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, January 28th.

How do you feel when the Lord is quiet and seems so far away?

Today's podcast reminds you that even when God is silent, he's still faithful.

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? There is a better way.

And so how do you respond? Do you take advantage of it? Do you learn something from it? Or you just let it go

by and say, well, you know, I went through one of these circumstances and God didn't answer my prayer. He

just ignored me. Now, somebody says, well, you know, I want to know about God speaking to me, not being quiet to me,

but there's a whole aspect of God's silence that is very, very good.

And what causes us to be perturbed sometime and impatient and wonder why and question a lot of things about God,

I want you to see that his silence is very, very

good. So how do we respond when he's quiet? Now, everybody doesn't respond the same way.

But so how do you respond? When you're talking to him and God is silent, you come to him with some request and you don't

hear anything.

Then you just get up if you kneel or pray.

And, you know, when I think about this, and that's just my own personal opinion.

So I'm giving you that.

A person who never kneels before God has a problem. You can't kneel before Holy God,

who's the creator of the universe, the sovereign of all things. You can't kneel before him?

Is that pride? I think it is. That's my personal opinion. But I think if you'll search the

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