Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, November 7th.

What should you do when you face a situation that doesn't seem to get better?

Let's find out in this podcast by learning principles that can give you the courage to keep going.

When I think about what Paul suffered in life, you have to ask the question, what motivated

him to keep on keeping on when everything in him would have said quit?

But there is something that Paul knew, something that he did that every single one of us

need to understand in our life because we're all going to be tested or have been tested

once or many times to just say, you know what, I don't have to put up with this. I quit. I

give up. I walk away. So I want us to look at the reasons, the motivations that Paul had to keep

going when the going got very rough. So the first one I want us to notice here is this. One of the things that

kept Paul from giving up and kept him keeping on keeping on was the awareness that God was with him.

And I think in the second Corinthian letter and the 11th chapter, this is a very challenging chapter to me when I think about

what Paul went through, what he suffered, and yet he never gave up no matter what he experienced in life.

So if you look at that 11th chapter from a moment, this is a familiar chapter to most Christians,

but a lot of people who hear this will not be. But Paul says, for example, he was arguing

and they were criticizing him for who he was, and he said in verse 22, are they Hebrews, so am I.

Are they Israelites, so am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. Then he says,

are they servants of Christ? I speak as if insane. I'm more. In far more labors,

in far more imprisonments, beaten times, listen, without number, often in danger of death,

five times I received from the Jews 39 lashes, three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stone, three times I was shipwrecked,

a night and day I have spent in the deep. I've been on frequent journeys in dangers from rivers,

dangers from robbers, dangers from countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city,

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