Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley from Monday, November 11th.

The Spirit of God is vital in the lives of all believers.

Let's find out why in today's podcast titled The Power of the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Believer.

Once you and I have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, we begin to immediately learn some lessons or some principles about which we learn to live the Christian life.

But the big mistake we make is this. We learn those principles. We start out utilizing those principles or abiding by them.

And after a while, we feel like we get a little confident and

things to go and start of going our way we feel a little success in our Christian life next thing you

know we've had a big collapse or we've had a fall to our fall in some fashion why is it that somehow

even though we start out right oftentimes we don't end up right. Well, one of the primary reasons

is the fact that we drift away from the very principles that make us a success in whatever we're

doing. And oftentimes, we think that we're practicing the same thing, but we've gotten so familiar

with it. We've become so familiar with the Word of God with the principles

with the messages that we hear that the next thing you know, we are not practicing them, and then

we are wondering what in the world's going on in our life. So what I'd like to do in this message,

I want to deal with one of those very basic but awesome, powerful principles that will make the

difference in whether you live the Christian life

victoriously or whether you fail in it. Not only that, but whether you can fail or whether you

succeed in everything else you're doing in life because God has made it very clear in His Word,

there is one thing in this life that is so absolutely essential, it essential every single day, no matter

what. So I want you to turn, if you will, to Luke chapter 24. And in this particular passage,

right before Jesus ascends, he gives his disciples a very specific command, absolutely essential

to their whole future. That simple command

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