Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, April 30th.

Are you overwhelmed with your circumstances?

See how Philippians 4, verse 13, helps believers learn to consistently meet hardship with confidence that conquers.

Would you consider yourself a confident person? or do you find yourself lacking confidence?

Can you distinguish between being confident and being arrogant and prideful?

Confidence is a good thing. Confidence is a healthy thing. Confidence is a quality that all of us should have and confidence is a quality

God intends for us to have and to enjoy and to live at our lives and to work out what he's called us to do

not hesitating they're not feeling we can't not feeling down but, but feeling confident. And this is Paul's conviction.

If God has called me to do it, then certainly I am able to do it. And I think oftentimes people

who have so much to give never get around to giving it because they don't think it's wanted.

They don't think they're worthy of it.

They just don't think they're acceptable. So I want you to turn to Philippians chapter four.

He says, through all these difficulties and hardships and trying times, I've learned something.

And that's this. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. That is, Paul recognizing his own abilities and skills at times, he said, you know, never would he talk about what he can do.

He talks about his inadequacy, but watch this.

His feeling of inadequacy, but then what does he do?

He also lines that up with the capacity and the power of God and it levels it out. You may feel I'm inadequate. If you fill that away, then when you get to reading the word and you begin to believe what God says, you begin to understand that God, God assumes responsibility for equipping you, enabling you, and everybody who ever has ever spoken to anybody, first time you do it, you're probably scared to death, whatever it might be.

If you say, I can't because you had little fear, or you have an opportunity to turn a job, and you're about to get a promotion you think oh my goodness I

could never do that wait a minute if you ask God to bless you and now he's giving you an

opportunity that's going to test you try you educate you grow you up mature you make you a

better person and make you a much more valuable servant of God in that business and you're

telling God you can't do it.

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