Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, July 31st.

God assigns tasks for believers to accomplish, but you can't do it alone.

Here's more on the essential discipline of walking in the Holy Spirit.

One of the most neglected subjects in the Bible

is the work of the Holy Spirit and the life of the

believer. You would think that as important as that subject is that more people would

be talking about it and more people would be referring to the Holy Spirit. But there are millions of people who

sit in church week after week after week year after year never hear a single

sermon dedicated to the Holy Spirit in his work in our life.

When it's so crystal clear from the scripture that you cannot live a godly life,

you cannot serve the Lord adequately unless you understand how he works in your life.

God intends for all of us to do our work in his power, in his energy, in his strength, and by his authority.

What is done, apart from the Holy Spirit, is flesh.

It's man's own human effort.

We can never carry out spiritual work, God's work in the flesh in our own

energy apart from the Holy Spirit. That is one of the primary reasons he sent the

Holy Spirit. Now here is a big point I want you to get this. How do

we walk by the Spirit? That is we know he's in dwelling us. We know that he is doing all these things in teaching and guiding and leading and filling and empowering and convicting and enabling and all these things.

Well, so what's my responsibility? It comes down to this, and that is if I'm going to live

moment by moment in the power of the Holy Spirit, I must be sensitive to the initial promptings of the spirit. Now what do I mean by that?

Simply this. Now let's take for granted that you're a believer. You're a Christian and all of a sudden you see something that gets your attention and you know

as soon as you see that or you look that way or whatever it might be something inside of says don't go that way

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