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    Life Principles for the Graduate: Nine Truths for Living God's Way
    Life Principles for the Graduate: Nine Truths for Living God's Way
    Life Principles for the Graduate: Nine Truths for Living God's Way
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    Life Principles for the Graduate: Nine Truths for Living God's Way

    By Charles F. Stanley

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    Equip your graduates for living in the real world!

    Graduates from high school and college move into a newer, higher level of independence, making decisions that will affect them for the rest of their lives. They need wisdom and guidance as they face the challenges that come with living in the world without becoming part of it. In Life Principles for the Graduate, by beloved Bible teacher, pastor, and bestselling author Dr. Charles F. Stanley, you'll learn provides nine biblical truths for living God's way as opposed to the world’s way, creating greater opportunity to grow stronger in faith while learning to trust and fully believe His Word as truth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateMar 1, 2009
    ISBN9781418580636
    Life Principles for the Graduate: Nine Truths for Living God's Way
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    Charles F. Stanley

    Dr. Charles F. Stanley was the founder of In Touch Ministries and pastor emeritus of First Baptist Church Atlanta, Georgia, where he served more than fifty years. He was also a New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy books. Until his death in 2023, Dr. Stanley’s mission was to get the gospel to “as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, as clearly as possible, as irresistibly as possible, through the power of the Holy Spirit to the glory of God.” This is a calling that In Touch Ministries continues to pursue by transmitting his teachings as widely and effectively as possible. Dr. Stanley’s messages can be heard daily on In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley broadcasts on television, radio, and satellite networks and stations around the world; on the internet at intouch.org and through In Touch+; and via the In Touch Messenger Lab. Excerpts from Dr. Stanley’s inspiring messages are also published in the award-winning In Touch devotional magazine.

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      Life Principles for the Graduate - Charles F. Stanley

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      Life Principles

      FOR THE

      Graduate

      Nine Truths for Living God’s Way

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      CHARLES F. STANLEY

      Life Principles for the Graduate

      Copyright ©2008 Charles F. Stanley

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson ®, Inc.

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      All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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      Scripture quotations marked NIV are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV ®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

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      ISBN-10: 1-4041-8698-0

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Surrender: The Starting Point

      Grace: Why We Need It

      Connecting with God: The Most Effective Way to Live

      Trusting the Lord: His Purpose Will Move

      Heaven and Earth

      Obedience: It Always Means Blessing

      God’s Will: It’s Worth the Wait

      Adversity: He Refines Us by Fire

      Prayer: It’s War on the Floor

      The Bible: The Sourcebook of Life

      Afterword: Lay a Solid Foundation

      INTRODUCTION

      1

      AS YOU APPROACH GRADUATION, you probably are thinking about your future more than ever. You are making decisions that will affect the rest of your life, and you’re trying to create the best life possible for yourself. Throughout my life’s journey, I have come to understand one thing clearly: only God can help you live a truly extraordinary life.

      When you place your hope in temporal things—money, social status, achievements, acceptance, or even the love of your family and friends—your foundation will inevitably crumble. Worldly comforts are no defense against the tumultuous storms that life often delivers. Your identity must be based on something greater than what the world offers if you are to stand strong.

      As the old saying goes, life is not about who you are; it’s about whose you are. Being able to answer this one question is extremely important because it has essentially everything to do with your personal relationship with God and your future. Your challenge is to get to know Him and, in the process, get yourself out of the way so He can move in and through you. He has a distinct purpose for your life, and He wants you to understand that purpose. When you finally see how beloved you are and how great your calling is, you will sense a desire growing within you to live for Him through His power.

      The Bible offers numerous principles for walking successfully with the Lord. It also teaches us how to live a strong, passionate, and committed life as we grow in our faith in Him. In this book, I will address nine time-tested truths that God uses to reveal His plans and purposes for our lives. They are based on His principles and offer the right pattern for success, hope, peace, and victory.

      Becoming the masterpiece God created you to be is a lifelong process in which He is continually shaping you into a unique reflection of His Son. It is my prayer that you will embrace each one of these principles fully and, in so doing, discover the extraordinary life God has planned for you.

      Charles F. Stanley

      CHAPTER ONE

      Surrender:

      The Starting Point

      2

      Fulfillment is not a matter of position or power. It is a matter of loving God and allowing Him to love you. All you need in order to be fulfilled is Jesus Christ living within you. So submit yourself to God. Fulfillment comes only when you decide to love God and give Him all of yourself. He has a great plan for your life—a life that is exceptional.

      Surrender

      is the First Step

      For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

      2 CORINTHIANS 8:12

      GOD DESIGNED YOUR LIFE FOR HIS GLORY. Even before you knew Him personally, He knew you intimately: O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways (Psalm 139:1–3). When we surrender ourselves to God, we exchange our old thoughts, feelings, and desires for new ones. Faith is the only way we can do this. By faith we believe that God is who He says He is and that He will do exactly what He has promised.

      We still can reach our goals, overcome our failures, and enjoy success, but for a different reason. Instead of boasting about what we have achieved in our own capabilities, we can enjoy what God has given abundantly. Our lives become reflections of His life and love rather than a checklist of human accomplishments.

      Submit yourself to God. Fulfillment comes only when you decide to love God and give Him all of yourself. This does not mean that you settle for second best or stop doing what you have been trained to do. Instead, you come to a point where you ask God to use you to the fullest so that others will come to know Him and experience His forgiveness and unconditional love. Those who have never discovered the wondrous joy that comes from loving and serving God have yet to experience His eternal fulfillment.

      EACH ONE OF US HAS BEEN BLESSED WITH SPIRITUAL GIFTS TO BE USED FOR GOD’S GLORY AND WORK. YIELDING TO HIM IS THE FIRST STEP IN THE PROCESS OF DISCOVERING THOSE GIFTS AND THE

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