Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, October 29th.

Today we conclude our series on brokenness.

Be encouraged to surrender control of your life to God and trust his promise to provide for every need.

Here is part two of after brokenness, what then.

The first thing that I want you to notice that happens when a person is broken is this.

You get a new view of God's purpose for your life.

Now, what is the view that most people have of their life?

And I want you to be open when I say this because otherwise you're going to be

prone to be very defensive and say, well, oh, I wouldn't think that at all. But here is the

most prominent view and the popular view that people have and don't even realize they have it.

And that is that God really exists for us. God exists for us. We pray. We want him to answer our prayers.

We want him to heal our body. We want him to prosper our finances. We want him to bless our

relationships. We want him to help us on our job. We want him to give us a promotion.

We want him to help us and on and on and on we go

so that God, for all practical purposes,

is a divine errand boy responding to the commands and request

and pleas and cries of us.

When you are broken, my friend, what really matters is what does God think? What pleases the Lord God? My focus changes. And what happens

is this. All of a sudden, it's not how do I feel, what do I think. How can I please God? What

pleases the Lord? What's his priority in my life today? What's his schedule today? What is his

will? What is his purpose? Is my life glorifying to God? When his will becomes priority in my life,

it's no longer what pleases me, but what is honorable

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