Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, October 27th.

At times, God works in our lives to break through our willful, selfish attitudes.

Though the process may bring pain, his ultimate purpose is always for our good.

Please join us for an uplifting message in today's podcast titled Brokenness,

the Promise.

Brokenness is God's method of dealing with the self-life, which is that part of us that

desires to act independently of God. He targets those areas that are hindering his purpose

and will for our life.

Then, having targeted them, he arranges the circumstances for our brokenness.

He chooses the tools by which way to be broken.

And then he controls the pressure as we are broken, and each facet of our life is brought

into submission to his will.

One of the reasons that brokenness is a painful experience, oftentimes causing suffering, is simply that God begins to deal with us

in brokenness on a level that is very deep. He deals with us on a deep emotional level. He deals with us on a deep spiritual level.

And as a result, he is after what most of us do not want to give up.

God is ultimately after the control of our life.

And the last thing we want to surrender is control of ourselves to anybody, God included. So this is part of our series on

Brokenness, the Way to Blessing, and the title of this message is Brokeness, the Promise. And as each

message we have taken a biblical character to illustrate the principles, so today we choose

the Apostle Paul. As I look at the life of the Apostle Paul,

I see two areas in his life that I believe God had to break. It is the same two areas he has

had to break in my life and that he intends to break in every person's life. One of those you

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