Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, July 22nd.

It's been said that it takes more strength to let go than to hold on.

Discover the biblical foundation that lies beneath that statement. hold on today's today's source of every good thing that comes our way. Now some people know how to handle

those blessings and they take good advantage of them and invest their life

wisely. Some other people seemingly can't handle it.

And what happens is they waste the blessings that God has given to them.

Sometimes they hold on so tight that they lose it.

Sometimes they just find themselves squandering the very good things

that God has sent their way. And oftentimes it happens to people who never intended for it to happen.

They thought they knew how to handle the good things of God,

but somehow they don't, and they lose them.

Now, there was a spiritual principle that says simply this.

Whatever we hold on to too tightly, we lose.

And it's true in every aspect of life.

And that's what I want to talk about in this message and I want you to turn if you will to the 12th chapter of Luke and here is a parable that Jesus gave and here is a principle that every person should take advantage of and remember carefully

because it affects every single one of us. So beginning in this 13th verse of the 12th chapter,

here's what the scripture says someone in the crowd said to

him speaking of Jesus teacher tell my brother to divide the family inheritance

with me.

But he said to him, man,

who appointed me a judge on arbitrator over you?

Then he said to them,

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