The Favorable Hand of the Lord - Part 1

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[instrumental music] Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, June 1st. Could life's obstacles sometimes be a sign of God's favor? Today's podcast helps you learn how to recognize the favorable hand of the Lord.

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All of us who are believers know in our heart that God loves us. Now, we know that first of all because the Bible says it, and secondly, there are times when we feel it. But oftentimes God's children do not feel that God loves them, and therefore they say, "Well, I know that sometimes He does, but oftentimes I'm not sure." And all of us would like to feel like that we are walking in the favorable sight of God and that we have His favorable hand toward us. And there is a passage of scripture that I believe gives us the characteristics of a person who is indeed walking, and who is receiving, and who is experiencing the favorable hand of God. All of us would like to experience that, and I believe we can. So I want you to turn, if you will, to Nehemiah, and I want us to look at the second chapter, but I want to give you a little background of what's happening here. You recall that under Nebuchadnezzar many of the Jews were taken from Jerusalem, uh, over to Babylon, and they were made slaves. Well, one of these was a person by the name of Nehemiah, and he is now the cupbearer of the king, not