Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, February 13th.

Do you have memories that still hold power over your heart?

If you'd have to say yes, then listen closely for biblical principles that can bring true freedom and restoration in healing your hurts.

Somebody hurt you a year ago, 10 years ago, or lifetime ago, and somehow deep down inside,

you can't shake it.

Sometimes you say it never happened, but you know deep down inside it did happen.

So you try to deny it, and that doesn't work.

You suppress it, and somehow it keeps popping out and sometimes it pops out

in an embarrassing fashion. You know the deep down inside something happened back there that you can

really identify. In fact, you can point your finger toward the person. And what seemingly was

merely a little hurt in the beginning somehow as solidified like concrete in your mind. It's just there.

It lays there. It hangs there. The burden of it is there. You'd like to shake it. You'd like

to get rid of it, but somehow you just can't do it. You got hurt so badly that somehow you

feel like I will never be able to overcome this. Well, I want to tell you,

my friend, yes you can, because you see, if you don't overcome the hurts of the past, what

you'll find out is this. Those hurts can do great, great harm to your life. So what we have to

do is we have to decide how we're going to handle this hurt. Am I going to handle this hurt in such a way that it harms me in every aspect of my life? Or am I going

to learn how to handle this hurt in such a fashion that I can take it and I can handle it

properly and be able to learn something from it, glean something from it, grow up as a result

of it and not allow it to hurt

me. Because God does not want us to respond to hurts in such a fashion that we are

devastated in our life, lose our witness in our testimony, go through life bearing some kind

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