Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, April 29th.

Have you ever felt exhausted and frustrated when things go from bad to worse?

You are not alone, but there are ways to overcome those struggles.

Our study of Helps to Holiness continues with a lesson in how to suffer successfully.

If you'll turn to 1 Peter chapter 2, how to suffer successfully.

And I want us to begin reading in verse 18, where Peter is talking to those Christians who are servants and slaves in the household of unbelieving masters.

And he says, servants, be subject to your masters with all fear not only to the good and the gentle,

but also to the forward.

For this is thankworthy if a man for conscience toward God endure grief

suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it if when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it

patiently. But if when you do well and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

For even here too, were you called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example

that you should follow his steps.

Who did no sin?

Neither was guile found in his mouth who when he was reviled revile not again when he suffered he threatened not but committed himself to him to judge it righteously who his own self

bear our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins should live unto righteousness

by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray, but are now returned to the

shepherd and the bishop of your souls. I think one of the greatest things we could do for a new believer who's received

Jesus Christ as their personal Savior is to make sure that person understands that when you

accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you accept with it the potential and the possibility

of suffering. That though we talk about the joy and the potential and the possibility of suffering.

That though we talk about the joy and the peace and the goodness and the kindness and the love

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