Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, August 27th.

When faced with a decision, how do you know what to do?

Let's continue the series on the power of the Holy Spirit to understand how he guides us every step of our journey with the Lord.

Every day you and I have to make decisions. Some of them have great, significant consequences,

and some of them appear to be very insignificant. But whatever our decisions may be,

sometimes they carry far greater consequence than we realize. Some of them are revocable.

You can't change them. Once that

decision is made, it's made, and you have to live with a consequence. All of us want to make

right decisions every time, but we don't. We can't always know all the facts, don't have all the

issues at hand, and so sometimes we make wrong mistakes. Sometimes

those wrong decisions are the result of carelessly, indifferently, making up our mind without seeking

God's direction. The wisest way to make a decision is to find out what is the mind of God. What does he

want us to do about this particular situation? And that's what I'm going to talk about in this

message entitled the Holy Spirit, Our Guide. I want you to turn, if you will, to John

Chapter 16. He says in verse 12, I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot

bear them now. But when he, the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth,

but he will not speak on his own initiative, but whatever he hears, he will speak, and he will disclose to you

what is to come. He shall glorify me, for he shall take of mind and shall disclose it to you.

All things that the Father has are mine, therefore I said that he takes of mine and will disclose it to you.

So let me say, first of all, that the Holy Spirit is an all-sufficient guide for us in the decisions of our life.

Well, it's very evident that he is because Jesus said on one occasion, in fact, in this very same chapter in the seventh verse, he said, I tell you, it is to your advantage that I go away. He says, because if I don't go away, the helper will not come, but when I go away, I will send him. And you'll recall, he says, I will send him. He'll be in you with you and upon you. And here in this passage, he says, he'll be your guide. One of the ministries of the Holy Spirit is to lead us in our decisions,

to guide us in our daily affairs, to give us direction about how we to spend or invest their

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