Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday July 11th.

God uses anything and everything to bring you closer to him.

Let's learn how to cooperate with the Lord as you gain understanding of God's pathway of brokenness.

What I want to talk about in this message is God's path of brokenness.

Now usually when people think about brokenness they think

about suffering and hurt and pain and oftentimes forget what what is it all about

who's behind it all what's the purpose of it, is there any way to avoid that

and still be useful for God? Lots of questions and I want to answer those questions.

And so what I'd like to do, first of all, I want to define what

brokenness is. This is God's method of dealing with the self-life. What's the self-life?

It's that desire within us to act independently of God. I don't care how

committed you are to Christ. There are times when there are those desires to

act independently of God and have our way. And so brokenness

is God's way of dealing with that. So ask yourself the question, is God in the process of

trying to break you financially? Is He breaking you through finances?

Not that he just wants to break you and make you a pauper, it's not that, but does he want to work in your finances to bring you to the realization?

He doesn't want you trusting in money, he wants you trusting in him.

Is he working in your family in such a way that he's trying to get to your insides, to your spirit, to your

attitude. He's he working in your vocation for example. You want to get to the top.

God wants to get you broken. He wants to get you

usable. In other words, he will use finances, use your wife or your husband, your children.

He will use your occupation.

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