Welcome to the Intouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, August 4.

Most of us don't like to give up control, and we'll fight to keep even the illusion of power.

But for a truly satisfying life, God has to be in charge.

Here's today's podcast to explain unconditional surrender.

When you not trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as our personal Savior, that wasn't the end.

That wasn't even His goal. His goal is that you and I would live unconditionally,

surrender to Him every day of our life.

I'm not going to tell you it's easy to make a full surrender of your life to Him,

to tell Him, Lord, whatever you want, what I want, is painful.

It's difficult. It's hard sometimes.

And even after you do it, it's difficult and painful.

And sometimes it demands a sacrifice to unconditionally tell Him,

unconditionally just let it give it all to Him because we naturally have our wills

and our wants and our desires and our plans.

There's nothing wrong with that as long as they fit into God's will.

And God's plan, which is always best.

But there'll be times when He will require us something that we do not want to give up now.

I want you to think about this before we talk about how to do it.

I want you to think about a full, full promise that belongs to every single one of us

and please listen carefully and please my friend be honest with yourself for just a few moments

because I don't know what it is that God's put His finger on in your life

and He's waiting for you to unconditionally surrender, but you've not done it yet.

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