Welcome to the In Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, April 29th.

The Apostle James warns that the tongue rules the whole body.

Discover how to speak with purpose and intention in today's podcast, Confidence That Conquers,

based on Dr. Stanley's insights.

Your confidence level is probably one of the greatest determining factors

of whether you'll succeed in life or whether you'll fail.

And I've known some people over the years who were very qualified, very gifted, very skilled, talented,

you name it.

But they never got very far in life for the simple reason

it's the way they thought

about themselves. I thought much more highly of them than they thought of themselves. And there are

a lot of people who miss out on life's best because they think they're less than. And their

negative attitude is devastating to them. And I think people don't realize that unless somebody points is devastating to them.

And I think people don't realize that unless somebody points it out to them,

that, you know, you're gifted, you're skilled, you're qualified, but they don't think so.

And as long as you don't think so, it's a detriment in your life.

Well, the truth is, confidence is a very important thing. In fact, it's a good thing.

It's a healthy thing. It's an enabling thing. And yet many people think in terms of confidence,

well, if I'm confident, I'm going to come across as being bold, and I'm going to be egotistical, and people'm going to be egotistical and people are going

to think I'm just being prideful. Not necessarily. You can be very confident without being

prideful or egotistical or arrogant because confidence is of God. But if you don't have it, it's not

because God wouldn't have you to have it.

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