Think for a moment about an impossible situation you're facing right now. Maybe it's a son or daughter who's walked away

from God. Perhaps it's a marriage relationship that's broken or maybe it's your

career. Today on Insight for Living Chuck Swindall opens his Bible to several passages that describe the astonishing power of Jesus to change everything.

Sometimes we get stuck in a cycle of defeat, believing that our impossibilities need to be

accepted rather than conquered. Chuck Tidal today's message, The Astonishing

Power of Jesus. And we begin with prayer.

Our Father, we hold in our hands a copy of the Holy Scriptures that have been preserved for us down through time,

watched over by the Holy Spirit and now provided for us in a language we can understand,

waiting to be believed and applied.

We thank you for the word of God that is alive and active

and sharper than a double-edged sword.

We thank you that it pierces where no surgeon's scalpel can touch. Deep within the soul and spirit of women and men alike.

We thank you that when it does its great work change occurs

Decisions are made differently lives are purified,

motivated, are corrected.

The path we take changes and our destination is altered.

All of us come to this place with preconceived ideas we have picked up from our parents, from our teachers, from the

raw material of life itself, from our scars and pains of the past.

And we come sitting in these chairs with one thing in common. We are all in need of a fresh word from yourself, the living God. We make ourselves

available to you at this moment.

I ask that you will find within us teachable hearts and open minds

and ready wills.

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