Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, April 13th.

God's grace is sufficient for every trial, every burden, every unanswered question.

No matter what you're facing today, uncertainty, loss, pressure, or private struggles, his strength is not diminished and his supply is not limited.

Join us for a new series designed to help you stand firm in life's challenges by learning to

rely on his abundant grace for today.

There are all different kinds of ways to respond to affliction and suffering and hurt and

trials and tribulations in our life. Sometimes the simplest

thing to do is just to rebel against it. Sometimes we choose to very stoically reserve ourselves

and decide we're just going to bear up under it. Sometimes we whine and groan and we moan and we

complain about it. Once in a while, we may understand what Paul

meant, and we may respond the way Paul responded, that is, with joyful understanding of God's

purpose in allowing that affliction of that pain. I wonder which of those best describes the way

you respond to suffering and heartache in your life.

You know, one of the errors that's going around today is that if you pray long enough and hard enough and if you believe enough, then God will change any and every circumstance

of life. And that change depends really on whether we have enough faith or we pray long enough,

hard enough, intensely enough. Well, if that's true, then there's

one passage of scripture that we have to look at again. It's the passage that I want to look at

today because I believe this is the pinnacle passage in all the Bible, the mountain peak

passage when it comes to dealing with the grace of God in the light of how

it relates to our pain and our suffering and our heartache and our hardship that we endure in life.

All of us are going to experience those things. It may be physical pain as a result of some disease

or some accident. It could be something even worse than that, and that's emotional pain.

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