Welcome to the in-dutch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, July 3rd.

If you could change one thing in your life, what would it be?

If your answer centers on altering a bad situation, today's podcast helps you get a godly perspective

on how to handle difficult circumstances.

How do you handle those very difficult circumstances in your life?

I mean circumstances that cause you pain, stress, tension, heartache, burdens.

It can come from all different directions.

It can sometimes be the result of something going on in your family.

It can be the result of something with your health.

It may be your work, whatever your work, a vocation may be.

It could be that it has to do with your children, your relationships.

Or it could be relationship to God Himself.

But somehow there's trouble, there's tension, there's stress, there's doubt, there's fear, there's anxiety.

And you have to deal with it over and over and over again.

And most of us would like to be able to eliminate them for good, but the truth is we cannot.

For the simple reason, this is a world in which you and I live, there's going to be conflict, misunderstanding, anger, bitterness, resentment, hostility, all kinds of things that happen,

along with that health.

So what we have to do is decide how we're going to respond.

If you respond incorrectly, you're going to be discouraged, you find yourself defeated in your spirit,

and ultimately it can destroy you if you're not careful.

So what I want to talk about is simpler this.

How to handle those difficult circumstances.

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