Welcome to the In Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, October 23rd.

As a believer, what's most important to you?

Let's continue the series to see what happens if anything other than Jesus is at the top of our priority list.

Here's a lesson on the process of brokenness.

Brokenness is God's method of dealing with that self-life within all of us, which is that desire to act independently of God.

And his ultimate objective is to bring every aspect of our life into total submission to his will

so that God's ultimate purpose for creating us would be accomplished.

Oftentimes, we object to the way God does that.

Now, I want you to listen very carefully.

There are only four points to this message.

The first one is extremely important that you understand what we mean by God targeting our area of brokenness. So what he does, he, through brokenness,

brings our physical body, our soul, our mind, our will, our emotion, our conscience,

our consciousness in the submission to the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit,

who is there residing within us for the purpose of guiding

and controlling our life. But it's a struggle not for most of us, but for all of us. And so what is this

process? That is, how does God go about breaking an individual? So I want you to jot down four

things. And the first one is this.

God targets the area. God targets the area of our life in which we need to be broken.

This is the process. God targets the area in our life in which we need to be broken.

All of us have strengths and all of us have weaknesses, all of us. And so you would think, well, what we're to do,

we're to live by our strengths and work on our weaknesses. But the truth is that in our strengths,

we probably are the most vulnerable because that's where we let our guard down

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