Living in His Sufficiency: Learn How Christ is Sufficient for Your Every Need (15)

by Charles F. Stanley

When something goes wrong, where do you turn for help? For many, the answer is a spouse or a friend, or even a group or an organization. Yet God longs to meet your needs. In fact, the Bible says He is utterly sufficient to satisfy every human need you'll ever experience. In Living in His Sufficiency , Dr. Charles Stanley teaches that the key to embracing God's abundance is a deep relationship with Jesus Christ. Through Him, you have access to help in every area of your life—not just spiritually, but morally, mentally, physically, and emotionally. This direct, insightful study challenges you to depend wholly upon the eternal God, rather than earthly relationships or things, to experience His sufficiency in all circumstances. With over 1 million copies sold, the Charles F. Stanley Bible Study Series is a unique approach to Bible study, incorporating biblical truth, personal insights, emotional responses, and a call to action. Each study draws on Dr. Stanley’s many years of teaching the guiding principles found in God’s Word, showing how we can apply them in practical ways to every situation we face. Each of the ten lessons

Genres: Christian

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 2, 1999

About the author

Dr. Charles F. Stanley is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church Atlanta, founder of In Touch Ministries, and a New York Times best-selling author who has written more than fifty books, and has sold more than nine million copies. He demonstrates a keen awareness of people's needs and provides Christ-centered, biblically-based principles for everyday life.

Charles Frazier Stanley was born September 25, 1932, in the small town of Dry Fork, Virginia. The only child of Charley and Rebecca Stanley, Charles came into the world during a time when the entire nation felt the grip of the Great Depression. To make matters worse, just nine months later, his father Charley died at the young age of 29.

However, Charles refused to let the Great Depression or the difficulties of his life define him. Instead, like his father and grandfather before him, he clung to God’s Word and took up the mantle to preach the gospel to whoever would listen.

Dr. Stanley’s motivation is best represented by the truth found in Acts 20:24, “Life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about God's mighty kindness and love.” This is because, as he says, “It is the Word of God and the work of God that changes people’s lives.”

Dr. Stanley’s teachings can be heard weekly at First Baptist Church Atlanta, daily on “In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley” radio and television broadcasts on more than 2,800 stations around the world, on the Internet at intouch.org, through the In Touch Messenger, and in the monthly, award-winning In Touch magazine.

Reviews

[Janet]

The layout of this book was sometimes confusing, as was some of the writing. A number of questions were poorly worded so that it was difficult to discern what it was that was being asked. Nevertheless, the overall message of the book is good.

I led a class study of this book but found it difficult to teach from. I would recommend it only for personal study.

[Brent Soderstrum]

It was a good reminder that Jesus is sufficent for all we could want or need in life. Nothing new here though.