Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, July 18th.

How much praise comes from your lips when life feels confusing and unstable?

In today's podcast, let's discover how God can transform painful circumstances into powerful blessings.

What determines the measure of God's blessing in your life?

In other words, somebody says, well, you just pray for God to bless somebody and he will, not

necessarily.

What determines the measure of God's blessing?

And that's the title of this message, the measure of your blessing.

Does he bless you a little bit? Some, sort, or a whole lot?

What determines that? So I want you to turn to the 8th 1st Psalm, and when you first read this,

you'll think, well, how do you get that out of this? Well, it's all here. So let's think about

the ways, for example, and what the requirements are. So I want you to look at this

passage of Scripture and notice what's happening. He says, I relieved his shoulder of the burden,

hands freed from the basket, speaking in the nation of Israel in captivity. There were Hebrews then,

not the nation of Israel yet. You called in trouble, I rescued you. I answered you in the hiding

place of thunder. Proved you at the waters of Mirabar, which is a time when they were complaining

about their food and water and so forth and giving God a hard time and asking the question,

is God among us or is he not? So he's reminding us here of their captivity, how he rescued them, how he did what he did in their behalf.

So the issue here is this.

How do you measure God's blessing?

And the first thing I want to notice is this, and that is this.

It's measured primarily by our recognition of God as the source of every blessing.

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