Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday August 8th.

Adversity can destroy your faith or it can be the tool through which it is refined.

Let's learn to benefit from hardship.

With today's life principle message, adversity, burden, or bridge.

Well, there are probably more people going through adversity today than a long, long time.

A lot of that is because of financial circumstances and situations and they're facing things that never faced before.

They never even thought about losing their home

or not being able to send their kids to college. Never thought about the fact that they wouldn't

have all their needs met, the way they'd been meeting them.

Never thought about that somebody would walk in and say,

we don't need you anymore on this job.

Adversity comes in all forms.

Sometimes it just sets us back until we can sort of get a glimpse of what's

happening. A lot of folks never get the right glimpse and so they just crumble

under that kind of adversity.

We know it either comes from either the devil or it comes from circumstances in life

we have no control over or sometimes God will allow adversity into our life or lead us into situations that are very difficult

for us.

And then people respond in different ways.

Some people seem to know how to walk through it, but most people don't.

And so they get bitter, angry, and resentful toward God, and hostile toward Him on a walk away,

or try to take some quick way out and they want to get on alcohol

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