Welcome to this weekend's In-Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley.

Believers in Jesus always have access to God's resources.

So, whether you feel energized or drained,

you have the privilege of being infused with the power of Christ.

Here's the final podcast in the series on the truth about grace.

Well, all of us have ways of responding to difficulty and hardship and pain in our life.

And would you say that when troubles and trials and tough times come,

that you are challenged by them, that you feel the test,

but somehow you are highly motivated, stimulated to be determined to walk through it no matter what?

Or you are one of those persons who can get depressed rather quickly and very discouraged and say,

you just want to give up and quit and walk away.

That is not the way to deal with these issues and the Apostle Paul certainly understood that.

And when he says in this passage that he asked the Lord to take away this thorn that he had in his side,

look how God responded to him.

And sometimes you may feel like, well, God, you're not listening.

But what I want you to see is this.

God's response was exactly what he needed and God's response is exactly what you and I need.

God makes him a promise.

Now, I want us to look at this promise for a moment.

Let's read it again for a second.

You remember he says that God had given him these great revelations,

given him insight into spiritual truth that he had not given anybody before.

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