Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, August 16th.

Have you ever considered that failure could be the first step to victory?

Today's podcast shows you how mistakes and disappointment can be God's greatest means

for developing your faith.

I don't know of anyone who enjoys defeat or failure.

Most of us will do everything we can to ward off defeat and to avoid failure at any cost.

Yet I think all of us have heard of people whose disastrous failure was the beginning

for them of real success in life.

Some of the biggest businesses ever built in this country were born out of previous failure

in the life of a single individual.

The same thing is true in every facet of our life.

Failure and defeat can either bring destruction and ruin or it can bring within it the seeds

of success and victory.

When you're not bringing that over into the Christian life and the spiritual realm,

sometimes we feel the same thing.

That is a sense of defeat and failure.

And what appears to be on the surface, the worst thing that could happen to us,

has within it the first step the seeds, the victory and success in the Christian life.

So as we look at this subject today,

failure, the first step to victory,

I want us to examine what God is doing in our life,

and it just may be that you may discover today that the very thing that you have fought against

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