Welcome to [music] the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, February 11th. The spirit of God [music] came to empower you to live out the will of God. Not in your own strength, but [music] through his divine power at work within you. Discover who he is, what he does, [music] and why you cannot live this Christian life without him in part one of the Holy Spirit, an [music] absolute essential.

Have you ever wondered why you don’t make any more progress than you do in your Christian life? In fact, you look back last month or last year or 10 years ago and you have to ask yourself the question, well, why don’t I love God any more than I used to? Why don’t I have a deeper hunger for him? Why don’t I read the Bible any more than I used to? Why don’t I give more than I used to give? What’s happening in my life? Am I stagnant? What’s going on in my Christian life that I don’t seem to make any progress? In fact, you look at your

life and you realize that you are still hesitating to share your faith. You still hesitate to take a place of service in your church. You still hesitate to tithe. You’re still battling over the same old habits that used to battle over a long time ago. You’re still wondering why God doesn’t seem to answer your prayers as you’d like.

You know that you’re saved. You go to church. You read your Bible. You pray at times. And yet, you know that something is missing in your life. What is it that’s causing you to realize in your life that there’s probably more stagnation than growth, more failure than success, and more emptiness than joy? Well, I think there’s a probably could be a number of reasons, but there’s one primary reason I believe that most people continue failing in all those areas.