Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, January 7th.

The Bible describes the Christian life as a walk. The question is, are you advancing in the right direction?

Or has inactivity stalled your movement? Join us as we move forward by faith.

Faith is neither secular nor spiritual.

It is both natural and it is neutral.

Everybody has faith.

The only distinction is who is the object of my faith.

That is the key issue about the whole idea of faith.

Now, the question we want to deal with is this whole matter of how do we get our life moving forward by faith.

The primary problem is our understanding of it.

Once we begin to understand the real true nature of faith, what is it really all about?

What's really involved in believing God?

Faith involves several things.

I want to give you seven single words.

It's really that simple, and yet it's complex to some degree when it comes to living it out.

But I want you to jot these down. And if you really want to see God make a reverse in your life,

you'll be wise enough not just to sit and listen, but you

will jot them down. When we think about faith, the first word I want to share with you is the word

assurance. Because you see, faith that is believing God is expressing assurance. That is,

there is no question in my mind that God will keep his word. Assurance says,

I have confidence that what I have asked God to do, which I know is his will, he is going to bring about in my life.

Assurance doesn't look around for a lot of evidence. Assurance says, God, if you said it,

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