Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, April 1st.

Challenges, heartache, and pain teach us lessons that nothing else can.

Today, we'll discover key biblical principles on how to advance through our adversity.

Oftentimes when you and I think about adversity, we always think about it in terms

of something that is negative, something that hurts us, it's painful, disappointments,

loss, whatever it might be.

And yet when you open the Word of God, here's what you'll find.

You'll find that all adversity is not negative, but there's some very, very positive things about difficulty, hardship, and

trial in our life. Now, if anybody understood what adversity was about, the Apostle Paul did.

But in his experience of it, he has given us some principles and some understanding that I think

we would not have otherwise. And so I'm grateful to the Apostle Paul

for all the suffering, all the hardship, all the heartache, and for God leading him to write down

what he was learning and how God worked in his life in those times. So the title of this message is how to

advance through our adversity. That is, how not to get stopped.

How not to just absolutely settle down in it. How not to just get stuck in it.

So I want us to look at several aspects of adversity. And listen, if you will listen very carefully,

I assure you, you're going to hear something that will encourage your assure you you're going to hear something that will

encourage your heart. You're going to hear something that will give you a sense of understanding

of what adversity is all about no matter what form it may take. You'll hear something that will

encourage you to know how to respond and to check yourself out to see if you're responding in the wrong way.

With that in mind, let's think about how can we advance through these adversities.

Well, remember we said adversity is a setback or it can be a series of setbacks that you and I

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