Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, January 31st.

All of us go through difficult times that can leave us feeling discouraged, defeated,

and just plain sad.

But those emotions don't have to linger.

Today, you'll hear why believers are never without hope.

God desires that every single one of us be aware of His presence in our life.

And so I want you to turn if you will to Psalm 42 and the title of this message, His

Empowering Presence.

God does something in the life of a person who is aware of His presence in their life.

The 42nd Psalm, and here David is expressing his hungry and thirsting desire for God,

and listen to what he says, beginning in verse 1.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for you, O God.

My soul thirst for God for the living God.

When shall I come and appear before God?

My tears have been my food day and night.

While they say to me all day long, where is your God?

These things are a member and I pour out my soul within me.

For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession of the house of God,

with a voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me?

Hoping God, for I shall again praise Him for the help of His presence, for the help of

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