Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, October 28th.

In times of pain, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that God intends to use every circumstance

to bring about profound spiritual growth and transformation.

Today's podcast brings us the encouraging answer to the question, after brokenness, what then?

Our greatest enemy is not from without.

It is that old self-life, that spirit within us that desires to act independently of God.

And unless that spirit of independence is broken, here's what you can expect.

And I want you to listen carefully.

It's going to hinder your relationship to God.

It's going to dull your sensitivity to God.

It's going to delay God's purpose in your life.

It's going to deny you of the peace and joy that you're looking for in life.

It's going to diminish your effect, the good effect that you could have upon others.

And not only that, but it is going to give Satan a greater place of opportunity in your life for a greater stronghold than ever before,

and it's going to deprive you, deny you of the blessings that God has in store for you

you would have had had you obeyed him in your life.

Now brokenness always involves repentance over sin,

the sin of rebellion, and it always involves the submission of our spirit to him. So therefore,

it is oftentimes very painful, especially if I have held on to something, some area, some relationship, some thing,

some desire, some ambition, some goal in my life that is not of God. Sometimes it's very

painful to let that go. But God breaks us in order to bless us. And I want you to turn,

if you will, today, chapter 12 of the book of

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