Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, May 29th.

Has your connection with God been drifting?

Learn five powerful principles from Hebrews 12 to refocus your life and experience God's best to the fullest.

All of us go through different seasons in our life, and so sometimes if the season lasts too long,

we just have the idea that that's what life's all about, just one big heavy burden.

But that's not really true, because all of us go through those seasons.

Sometimes there are more clouds than there is sunshine, and we're often prone to think, well,

is this what life is all about?

No, that's not what life is all about.

Life really is all about something very, very exciting. And that's what I'm going to talk about

in this message today, no matter where you are and what you're feeling and how down you may be

or how up you are. The issue is what is life really and truly all about? And I want you to turn, if you will,

to Hebrews chapter 12. And there are two verses here that I want us to look at primarily.

Because I believe in these two verses, God gives us, not necessarily some formula, but he gives

us an insight, an understanding of what life is all about and why we can

live it to the very fullest no matter what's going on. And so when we think about living life

to the fullest, first of all, according to this passage, it involves the encouragement of others.

It's very significant how the writer begins this chapter. Look at what he says.

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses, then let us run this race. If you'll notice

in the latter part of the first verse, he says, the race that is set before us. What he's doing here is comparing the Christian

life to this race. Now, think about it for a moment. He says, in this race, and he puts it in those

terms, in this race, he says, we have encouragers. And one of the things that is so vital to living

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