Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, August 26th.

If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, then you have been supernaturally gifted by God.

In this podcast, you'll see how the Spirit uniquely enables you to accomplish the will of God.

When you called upon to serve the Lord, do you oftentimes feel very, very inadequate

to do that?

Well, probably that's one of the reasons that many of you will not serve him, simply because

you feel so inadequate, you feel so incapable, you feel so ill-equipped, and so you say,

you know, I just can't do it.

Well, I can understand that, but let me remind you of something.

When you refuse to serve the Lord God, what happens is you miss the blessing here,

you miss the reward in heaven, and thirdly, you hinder the work of God here on this earth.

Well, the Lord Jesus knew about that, and that's why he said in the 14th chapter of John,

15th, 16th chapters, that when he left, he would send the helper, the Holy Spirit,

who would be in us, with us, and upon us, that he would abide with us forever.

So all of us who have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of us

have a helper to enable us, to energize us, to equip us, to grant us the wisdom and the knowledge

and the understanding to do whatever God has called us to do. Remember the promise? He says,

He that calleth thee will also do it. Well, that's what I want to

talk about in this particular message today, because one of the manifestations and one of the works

of the Holy Spirit is to equip us to do whatever God has called us to do. And one of the ways he does

that is through spiritual gifts. And so that is the theme of

this message, the Holy Spirit, the giver of gifts. And I want you to turn, if you will, to First

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