Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, June 20th.

The obstacles Joseph faced in the Book of Genesis were used by God to accomplish a bigger goal. Today's podcast reminds us that the Lord also has a plan to use our dark moments.

If you want God's best in your life and you want to make your life count then you can expect to travel the

road of adversity. It's always there and it's amazing how somehow God uses

adversities in our life to shape us, to make us fit, and to equip

us to do the things that he desires to do in us and through us in life. And when you think about what adversity is, adversity

is those dark moments in our life. That is the times when we feel tried and tempted. We feel hurt, misused, and abused. We feel depressed, anxious,

fearful, thoughtless, sinful, depressed, you name it.

All those things that person goes through,

sorrow and loss.

These are dark moments in our life,

and God does not promise that we'll have life without

dark moments.

We're going to have them.

And what we have to ask is this, how are we going to respond to them?

And the way we respond to them is determined by a number of things, one of which is how long that moment of

darkness lasts.

Now do I have anything to do with that? Yes I do and so to you. If I rebel

against the dark moments all I'm doing is lengthening the time of the dark moments or positioning myself ultimately that

God just sets you aside and says you determine not to be used I won't use you. So the way we respond is very, very important and I think about as far as

Joseph was concerned 13 years was a long time. I meet people once in a while who've been in dark moments longer than that.

I don't understand why.

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