Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Have you ever been so disillusioned that you felt incapable of making a decision?

Today's podcast looks at 1 Samuel Chapter 30 to see David's predicament.

His situation frames the lesson on how to encourage yourself.

Well, what I want you to see tonight is how David encouraged his own heart.

Let me ask you something.

You remember the last time that the bottom dropped out on you?

I mean it really dropped out, and you looked down and you thought,

Lord, I can't go any further down. When everything within you said, there's no way out,

everything in you rose up with remorse and regret or maybe bitterness and resentment and hurt

and anger and fear and unbelief and doubt, and you would just shrouded with it and just

covered just flooded with it just the assaults of satan continuously barraging you and telling you

that god didn't really care that god really wasn't concerned about you and after all god wasn't

listening to your prayers he had no personal concern about you and a lot of these things that you'd been believing all along, there was nothing to it. Well, there are three areas of this

passage that I want us to look at. And I want us to get down to the second one, but I want us to

divide it up to see what's happening here. The first one is this, and that is the disaster that David

faced him, because he did face a disaster. Here he was coming back to his

own town with all of these men who were really a bunch of criminals and renegades who decided

to side up with David because they couldn't afford to stay in Saul's camp because of who they were.

And we talked about that before. When they approached Zichlag, they see the whole city in flames burning and smoldering.

When they get back, they discover that all of their sons and daughters have been taken.

They don't see anybody lying around dead. They don't see their cattle dead, but everything has been

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