Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday August 9th.

Today you'll meet the Apostle Paul who exemplifies one who endured intense pain

but wasn't defeated by his circumstances.

What was his secret?

Adversity comes in all forms.

And when I think about it, I think about how universal it is.

That's making us where you live, where you come from,

what color, what culture, and that's making a difference.

Adversity is just adversity.

And what I want you to understand in this message, I want you to understand that adversity

in our life can either be this overwhelming sense of burden, this burden that is weighty, heavy, that makes us weary, tired, restless,

and just worn out. Or the same adversity can be like a bridge.

Like a bridge that leads me to a deeper relationship to God.

It's all in my attitude and all in my understanding of what God is doing.

Well the Apostle Paul is the best example in the scripture of a person who not only went through all

kinds of adversity but who understood the most basic principles.

And in this passage if you will listen carefully and I want to encourage you to write down

these statements, it will help you, enable you to keep your attitude right,

the goal right, understand what God's doing in your life, and you will have a totally different

attitude about whatever you're going through, whatever that may be.

So I want you to turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 12.

So I won't put these in any order necessarily.

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