Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, May 14th.

God uses adversity to strengthen and grow our faith.

Here's part one of how to keep going when the going gets rough.

The last time you felt like you couldn't put one foot in front of the other,

emotionally you were exhausted and spent,

and there was no place to turn, no one to talk with, nothing you could do. What was your next thought?

What was the next idea that came to your mind? I mean the going had gotten so rough, you just didn't

know what to do next and felt maybe there wasn't anything you could do about your circumstances.

All of us, at times in our life, have those feelings. Now, to have them is not necessarily unusual. It is how we

respond that makes the difference. Is it possible when times really get rough and we look down

that long tunnel and there's not one ray of light on the end of the tunnel. Is it possible to keep going

when the going gets rougher and rougher and rougher? Is there anything that you can do when it

gets so rough all of your energy spent, emotionally you're exhausted? Is there anything you can do to be assured that you can keep going

as rough as it may be until you become victorious over those rough times? There is, and the answer

that is found in the 40th chapter of Isaiah. And the title of this message, How to Keep Going

When the Going Gets Rough. So the part we're going to begin with begins in verse 27 when the question

is asked, why do you say, O Jacob and assert, O Israel, my way is hidden from the Lord. That is,

God doesn't understand what's going on in my situation.

And the justice do me escapes the notice of my God. He doesn't see that I'm being mistreated.

Do you not know? Have you not heard the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, does not become weary or tired.

His understanding is inscrutable. He gives strength to the weary. And to him who lacks might,

the Bible says, he increases power, energy, and strength. Though youth, that is young people, grow weary and tired,

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