Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, July 21st.

It's natural to feel fear, anxiety, and panic in a sudden crisis.

But what would happen if we immediately cried out to God in our desperate circumstances?

Today's podcast explains how the Lord responds to urgent needs.

I want to talk about what it means to cry out to God.

Now more than likely you may say, well, I've been praying to God ever since I've been a Christian.

I'll understand that, but have you ever cried out to God?

Do you understand what it means to cry out to Him?

The difference between simply praying to Him and crying out to Him.

And I want us to begin in the 17th Psalm.

Look if you will in the 17th Psalm.

And let's look at one verse here and then we'll take just a couple more.

The 17th Psalm, listen to what he says in verse 1.

The Scripture says,

Here adjusts cause, O Lord.

Give ear to my cry.

Give ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.

Sometimes the word prayer and sometimes the word cry are used interchangeably.

But not all times. Now watch this.

There are 19 different words in the Bible for cry.

And essentially they all mean to cry out loud.

There are 10 root words and they're not derivatives from those root words.

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