In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

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When I go to the mailbox at my house where I live,

and I pull the front door down, it just gushes out with

stuff.

And your mailbox is probably the same.

He asked me what it is.

I don't know what most of it is.

Finally, I conclude, this is just another bunch of junk, because there's not much in there

worth reading. Sometimes things, I think, well, where did this come from? And so there's no real good message.

Every once in a while, the message may be good, but not often so. Then I think about something else I open.

There's no junk mail in this.

Everything in here is true.

The promises far outweigh what I'm asked to give, there's nothing like opening the Word of God and listening

to the voice of God what He has to say to us. Sometimes on holidays, there's no mail. No holiday

for the Word of God. It's always open, always available, always ready to answer

some particular need or some particular petition that we have. So I wonder how often

you pick up the Word of God, open it to read it just for yourself. Or do you put it off to maybe tonight or maybe tomorrow or I won't get into that today

or whatever it might be?

But every time you open the Word of God, he has something to say.

Junk mail is stuff that you look at and toss in the trash can. Is there anything in this book

you take out and throw into the trash can? Nothing. Then why not read it every single day? If you believe

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