Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, September 24th.

Are you in pain, struggling with some sort of adversity?

Well, let's keep listening to get a fresh perspective on how God uses our suffering.

If God is the God he says he is and that he loves us, cares for us, wants the best for us.

There are a couple of things we don't quite understand.

And that is, why does he allow all this suffering

that goes on in the world if that's who he is? He could stop it if you want to do, but somehow he

doesn't seem to want to. And oftentimes we go through times of suffering and heartache

and pain and we pray and nothing happens. We ask other people

to pray and nothing happens. And what we don't realize that sometimes what appears

to be nothing happening is God patiently doing his awesome work.

Well, this is the seventh message in our series on the ways of God,

and we've been talking about his ways, what motivates him.

Why does he do what he does what does he act the

way he acts what does he respond the way he responds is what what motivates him and

so in this message today something all of us have to deal with in our life.

All of us have to deal with suffering of some kind, whether it's emotional or whether it's

physical, mental or whatever it might be. And so when we think

about the ways of God, today the title of this message is simply this, the ways of

God, he uses our suffering.

And I want you to turn, if you will,

for the little book of First Peter,

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