Welcome to the in-touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, August 6th.

Have you ever wondered why God showers his people with blessings?

Let's continue the Life Principal Series to see the main reason God shows his believers his favor.

In these economic times, it's easy for us to get a little bit selfish and a little bit self-centered.

And the reason is because we always have needs at some point in our life

and we also have responsibilities.

And so the question is, how should we as followers of Jesus respond in these times?

What the question I have to ask is this?

What about in Jesus Day? What did he say? What did he teach? And when you read the scripture and you

begin to understand what Jesus was saying and the Apostle Paul also and others,

then you begin to understand what he taught them not only worked for their day, but

what he taught them works for our day also.

And when you read the scripture and you begin to understand exactly what he's saying, the truth

is we're to live out our life today, just like he told them to live it out in that day.

I want to talk about one of the life principles which is God blesses

us to be a blessing to someone else and I want you to turn to two short scriptures

one of them being in Ephesions chapter four and here Paul is talking about

the Christian life and how we should live and things we should avoid in our life and he comes

down to this 25th verse and he says,

therefore laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor,

for we are members of one body speaking of the church. Be angry and yet do not sin, do not let

the sun go down on your anger, and then he says, listen to this, and do not give the devil an

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