Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley from Monday, August 11th. Every Christian has been

given the Holy Spirit in order to become the person God created you to be. Let's learn how to draw on

and experience God's power within us. All of us can look back in our lives and see where there are times and places where we fail and wish we could have done better.

And then we have to decide how we're going to respond to those times when we realize that there have been failures.

And sometimes we respond by being anxious and very regretful about things that have happened. Sometimes we just feel real guilty.

We look back and see maybe we could have corrected this or that. Sometimes people just want to

blame someone else. They look around to find someone else to put the blame on. And then there are

those people who just like to have a pity party and talk about how terrible they've been.

And then, of course, there are those folks who stop and say, well, what caused this?

Now, what happened in my life?

Why did I fail in this particular area?

And then there are those people who don't stop there. And so they ask the question, what can I do to keep this failure from happening again or how can I correct this?

And those of us who believe us have a great advantage in life, because we have someone to help us.

This does not mean that the believers are going to always be successful in every single thing we do,

but it does mean that our opportunities for success and whatever God calls us to do,

something we have an advantage. And when we talk about succeeding, we're not talking about

the world's idea of success, which is more prosperity, more prominence, more position, more power,

what else? But what is success in the eyes of God? In the eyes of God, here's what success is.

It is discovering and pursuing the will of God for your life in the eyes of God. In the eyes of God, here's what success is. It is discovering and pursuing the

will of God for your life in the power of the Holy Spirit. And that's what God intends for every

single one of us. And oftentimes, there are those who do understand the will of God for their

life. They have been saved. And yet yet they say, in spite of all that,

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