Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, October 22nd.

Do you know God's plan for your life? And if you do, are you resisting his preparation?

Today we'll examine the life of Moses to see how God equips us for service.

The two primary reasons, two primary purposes for which God breaks us.

The first purpose is spiritual maturity.

So I want you to jot that down.

In fact, I'm going to give you a number of things to jot down.

The two primary purposes are the two primary points to this message, one of them, spiritual

maturity.

God breaks us in order to mature us and to make us Christ's light. There's a second reason that God

has in mind a second purpose for brokenness. First of all, we said spiritual maturity, bringing us to the end of ourselves, so it is us and God alone.

Our dependence upon him, his life flowing through us, that intimate, loving relationship of utter dependence upon him.

And the second purpose for that brokenness is, remember first, spiritual maturity, secondly, supernatural ministry.

You said, well, that leaves me out because I'm a homemaker. Let me ask you something,

Mom, can you tell me any more responsibility in all of life that is more demanding than raising

a godly family? You think of the wisdom and the faith and the patience and the love.

You can think of all the attributes that are so absolutely necessary for a mother to raise godly children.

Think of all the sacrifice and all the time it takes.

And all the skill and the wisdom and the knowledge and the understanding that a woman must

have to raise godly children. Don't ever belittle your responsibility as a mother. Don't ever

belittle and say, well, I don't have a ministry. Suppose Moses' mother said, I don't have a ministry.

Moses' mother had a great ministry, bringing her son into the world, saving him.

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