Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, May 5th. Believers in Jesus never face a

crisis alone. The presence of the Holy Spirit assures us that help is always on the way.

Have you ever wished you had a 911 line to heaven?

Probably many times you wish that when you can just get connected immediately with Almighty God

to help you through some situation and circumstance in life.

We've all been there, times when we needed someone and you look around and family can't help

you, friends can't help you, nobody can help you, but you need some help.

When you find yourself in one of those situations, where do you turn?

So I want you to turn, if you will, to the 14th chapter of John and to remind you that

Jesus is encouraging his disciples.

He's going to be crucified the next day. They are very discouraged, and Judas has betrayed him,

and he's begun to talk about some things. They don't quite figure out how they all match up.

He said, if you've seen me, how they all match up. He said,

if you've seen me, you've seen the Father, I'm the Father one. And now he's talking about suffering and all the rest. But listen to these words of encouragement, because this 14, 15,

16 chapters of John really are words of encouragement. He's getting ready to leave them. And beginning

in verse 16 of the 14th chapter, here's what he says.

He says, I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper that he may be with you forever.

That is, the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see him or know him, but you know

him because he abides with you and will be in you.

I will not leave you as orphans.

I will come to you.

Very important for them to know that the whole fact of his leaving was already frustrating

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