In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, patience, essential to experiencing God's best.

When you trusted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior immediately, the Holy Spirit came into your life to seal you as a

child of God. That's the reason we know that we are eternally secure. It is His work and not our

conduct that makes us acceptable to God. And in the process of doing so, when I think about that,

I think about the fact that the

Holy Spirit seal us and equip us to do whatever He's called us to do. Many people will

live out their life in church, baptized early in life, heard lots and lots of sermons, and will

never understand that God never intended

for them to live the Christian life.

He didn't.

He intended for them to allow the Holy Spirit who lives within them to live out the life of the Lord

Jesus Christ.

So we are not only equipped of salvation, he's equipped us to do whatever he's called

us to do, whatever he has made us to be and made us to do.

So when you think about your life and you think about the challenges you face, remember this,

that you are already empowered by the Holy Spirit to live and to face any situation, any circumstance of life.

He didn't just save us and let us get along the best we can. So when you think about your life

and you think about things you face,

when you face difficulties, would you say that you're a patient person? And the truth is,

all of us probably have areas of our life that it's difficult for us to stand by, a hold back,

what we think, or what we'd like to do.

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