Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, February 10th.

If you're a Christian, you can rise above your circumstances.

Today's message from Romans chapter 8 will remind you that through Christ you truly can overcome.

When your best plans get halted and you get derailed and set on the highway side over here,

when your dreams get shattered and your plans come to a screeching halt, what is your reaction?

Is it to blame God? Is it to look for someone else to blame? Or do you respond the way a believer

should respond according to the scriptures?

Well, the man who wrote this, the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, was certainly

not a novice to hard times and difficulties and heartaches.

For what he's written in this eighth chapter here, he knew by experience was the truth.

It had been tested and tried. He knew it to was the truth. It had been tested and tried.

He knew it to be the eternal truth.

And so when he wrote in this 37th verse,

But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through him who loved us,

here is a man who is speaking out of the testimony and the witness of his own life.

He knows what he's saying to be true.

Now, when you and I think about the things that we go through, the difficulties and the

hardships that you faced in life and the things that people face every day, what is our

response to be? Are we to mature

in that situation or to fight back at our circumstances? Are we to try to remove the circumstances

or to ask God, Lord, what are you saying to me in these circumstances? Listen, this is always

the proper question. Whatever your circumstance

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