Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday January 16th.

If believers in Jesus want to be spiritually mature,

we have to be controlled and focused.

Let's listen to the necessity of self-discipline

as a part of living the extraordinary life.

Do you want to do your best, be your best, and live a life that is fulfilling? Well, you can, but there is a price

to pay. But on the other hand, if you don't live that kind of life, there's still a price to pay. You see the

Christian life's not easy. Nowhere in the Bible is it say once you trust Jesus

Christ as your personal savior, life will get easier. Their difficulties, their hardships, their trials, but it's still the best way to live.

And oftentimes people do not realize have very important a particular aspect of the Christian life is.

Because you see the real secret or the real key to living an extraordinary Christian

life and the real key to living a life that you do your best, be

your best, and fulfill the dreams or the goals that God has set for your life, there is a key.

Think about it.

And the key is self-discipline.

And the reason prisons are overflowing

is because people will not

why is it that students are dropping out because they're not disciplined enough to complete the task

and why are people so in debt they can't watch all the advertisements and commercials without yielding to the

enticement to have one more of this or something larger, something better, or something like

my neighbor has.

Self-discipline is an absolute essential in the

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