Welcome to this weekend's Intouch Podcast with Tarl Stanley.

As we close the series about unmet needs today,

you'll hear how important it is to maintain a close relationship with the Lord

to experience the abundant life.

Now, when you think about the circles around your life,

do you have and are you aware that the animal circle

is reserved only for you and God?

I think the first time that ever dawned on me

of being able to have some kind of an intimate relationship with him,

though I didn't understand it very well at the time,

and it was a pretty good while before it ever became a living reality in my own life.

I remember driving down the expressway exactly where I was.

Going under a particular bridge, no exactly where I was,

no exactly what I was driving at that time,

and God spoke to my heart so clearly out of the blue,

not even thinking about anything like this, like God said to me,

I made you for myself.

That was so real to me, I turned and looked.

I knew God wasn't in a human body.

It was so real to me.

Now, you know what, it's like one of those things that God wants to walk

and drop into my mind, it shut it down,

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