Welcome to the InTouch podcast [music] with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, December 9th. The Holy Spirit empowers every Christ follower who learns to depend [music] on his strength. Stay with us to discover how you can experience this power in your life today. >> What does God say about inadequacy? What does the word of God say about adequacy? Inadequacy.

Can any good come out of it? Is it wrong to feel inadequate? No. Is it a sin to feel inadequate? No. Is it absolutely necessary to feel inadequate? No. Is it going to happen? Yes. There’ll never reach a stage in your life where you will never feel inadequate about something. So, is it good or is it bad? Sometime it’s good, sometime it’s not so good. Depends on how you respond.

And so when you look through the scriptures and you see what God did here and you see how God worked in this person’s life and that person’s life and in light of all this we say well I don’t want to feel inadequate. Well you’re going to at times but the question is how do you turn that feeling of inadequacy into adequacy? That is a sense of confidence a sense of assurance that whatever you have to do you’ll prove to be adequate.

Wherever you have to go will get you there. Whatever God wants to achieve in your life, you will be able to achieve it because of your relationship to him. So what is it today that you feel inadequate about in your life? What is it that you’re feeling? Well, you know, if I could just if I could just handle this, if I could just learn a better way, if I could just h if I just knew how to handle my finances, if I just knew what to do about my children, if I just knew how to handle this relationship that I desire, if I just

knew how to deal with my job in a way that I could I could be acceptable. In other words, all of us have those things in life we have to deal with. So will we be defeated by inadequacy or will we learn the secret learn the key? Will we be able to look beyond our inadequacy to the adequacy of the Christ who lives within us? Very important that we understand that.