Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, December 26th.

Stress is a way of life for many people, but believers in Jesus don't need to live that way.

Real joy and peace can be ours as we deal with all our anxieties, God's way.

Anxiety is not just the mere emotion, Sometimes it's a very painful emotion, and sometimes, unless

dealt with, can become very destructive in a person's life. Yet all of us know what it means

to feel anxious, and we feel anxious about different things. God knows how to handle all of our

anxieties, no matter what they may be. And so as we

think about it and think about what Jesus said about it, Jesus said a lot about it. And he tells us

how we're to handle it. So I want you look, if you will, beginning in this 25th verse of the sixth

chapter of Matthew. He says, for this reason, I say to you, do not be anxious for your life.

As to what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor for your bodies to what you shall put on,

is not life more than food and the body than clothing. Look at the birds of the air, that they do not

sow, neither do they reap,

nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not worth much more

than they? And which of you, by being anxious, can add a single cubit to his lifespan? And while

are you anxious about clothing? Observe how the lenders of the field grow.

They do not toil, nor do they spend. Yet I said to you that even Solomon in all of his glory

did not clothe himself like one of these. But if God so raised the grass of the field, which is

alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will he not much more do so for

you, old men of little faith? Do not be anxious then saying, what shall we eat? What shall we drink?

With what shall we clothe ourselves? For all these things the Gentiles eagerly seek, for your

heavenly father knows that you have need of all these things but seek he

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