Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, October 23rd.

In life, periodic hurricanes may churn the calm waters of our lives.

However, when believers weather these storms, we discover that they become the best

seasons for making us useful in God's kingdom.

All of us go through storms in our life and sometimes we don't understand exactly why we do and

where they're coming from and what it's all about.

Then I thought through the scriptures of God's servants back in the Old Testament, the New Testament, how many storms that they went through in life,

and what was it that built into them, the character that was there?

It was the storms, not ease, comfort, and pleasure. So what I want to talk about in this

message is this, and that is the storms of life, God's purpose. What are the purposes for God allowing these storms in our life?

And I want you to turn to one verse that most all of us know by heart,

but I want us to look at it because sometimes we think everybody knows these verses and they don't.

And sometimes we have quoted them so often, we sort of forget what they really say,

we can set off the top of our head, but Romans 8, verse 28 28 we all know it by heart but I want you to

notice what Paul says in this passage there's one word that is the key

above all the rest and sometimes we think it's a phrase but I think it is

one word primarily he says and we know that God causes all things to work together

for good to those who love God, to those who are called

according to his purpose.

Now usually what we are primarily interested in is when he says all things. And so that's the thing that gives us the problem. But the

key word in this whole passage here is this. When he said God causes, that assures me that God is a part of, that he is involved in, that he is

behind, he is engineering the circumstances of our life.

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