Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, September 11th. Are you walking in the power of the Holy Spirit?

As we continue in the book of Galatians, discover why daily dependence on the spirit is essential for truly living the Christian life.

Have you ever felt like just quitting the Christian life? I mean, you've tried and tried and tried to be the kind of person you think God wants you to be, and you've read the Bible, and you've prayed, and you've done just about everything you know to do. In fact, every time you turn around, it's one struggle right after the other, and you think, hey, I don't think I'll live this life. Either I'm missing something.

Somebody didn't tell me something. Oh, this is really not all it's cracked up to be.

You ever felt like that? Well, probably if you have felt like you have been defeated in your

Christian life and it's just not working, join the crowd because all of us at some time in our

life or the other have probably felt something similar to that that's why the holy spirit came into your life and my life and we were saved because god knew that you and i were absolutely inadequate to live the christian life and the christian life in, is this. The Christian life is the Holy Spirit

who indwells the believer, responding to the believer's yieldedness, and empowering and guiding

and leading and expressing the very life of Jesus Christ through that believers conduct, conversation, and character,

moment by moment, day by day, step by step in the believers walk.

You say, well, that sounds real passive, and what you're saying is that all we have to do

is just let God have his way and just let go and let God, and we don't have anything to do.

I didn't say that at all.

Because you see, every single time a decision comes up, and every single time you're not tempted,

we have to make a decision. Our responsibility in the Christian life is decision-making.

That's what it's all about. And now decision is, shall I rely upon the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit

within me to enable me to face this, whether it's a temptation or some trial or some heartache

or some burden or some sorrow? Well, I allow him to enable me to face this victoriously,

or am I going to try in my own strength and in my own energy? You see,

the more self-confident you and I become in the flesh, that is in our old humanness,

when we look around and we say, well, you know, I can do that and I can do this and I can

handle that. Then what we do is we get in trouble. Every time we begin to live the Christian

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