Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, October 15th.

Do you ever feel like you aren't talented enough to do anything for the Lord?

Well, in today's podcast, we'll find out how our shortcomings could be our greatest strengths.

Inadequacy is a very uncomfortable feeling.

In fact, sometimes it's not just uncomfortable, It's very painful and it can be very embarrassing.

And oftentimes it evokes other emotions in us that give us a difficult time.

For example, the feeling of that we're going to be a failure, the feeling of

fear of failure and criticism, the feeling that I'm unfit, I'm unqualified, and

so when a person says well if I'm unqualified and so when a person says well if I'm inadequate how can I

attempt anything in life when I feel so absolutely inadequate? Well the truth

is that all inadequacy is not as bad as it may appear and the truth is that all of us are inadequate to do certain things.

So what I'd like to do, I'd like to give you seven blessings of inadequacy and I want you to write them down

listen if they're worth sitting you listening to they're worth remembering if they're worth

remembering the only way you're going to remember them is to write them down I doubt if

you are going to remember all of them and every single one of them is

important. Here's a man who is gifted, equipped, talented, skilled. I mean the

Apostle Paul was certainly one of God's choice choice if not the most choice when it comes to what he accomplished in life.

It was certainly there. And so I want you to just think through this with me if you will, and let's think about what some of these blessings are. How could that

which makes me feel unfit, unable, not quite able to measure up? How can that be a blessing in my life? Well, number one, one of the reasons

it's a blessing is that my inadequacy, our inadequacy drives us to God. Is it not true when you face some circumstance, a situation in life,

and you feel inadequate, you feel helpless, you can't do it? What does it do? Here's what it does.

It drives us to our knees to say, God, I need you. I need you to help me.

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