Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, August 12th.

God gives you the Holy Spirit to empower your new life in Christ.

But how does that power work in everyday life?

In today's episode, let's discover practical steps you can take to walk in the strength of 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? 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, certainly 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 power of the Holy Spirit.

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