Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, May 15th.

Would you like to know how to handle adversity?

Well, today's podcast focuses our attention on how to help you keep going when the going gets rough.

When the going gets rough, the first thing you and I need to do is to focus upon God.

Who is this God?

The Bible says that he's a God of great power and might.

The Bible says he's a God who, listen, who involves himself in your life and my life like a shepherd with his lambs?

Now notice how he uses that phrase.

He says in that passage, like a shepherd, he will tend his flock.

He's interested.

He's involved with him.

You said, well, now, wait a minute.

I want to call on God, but God's too busy for me when the going gets rough.

He's got his big plan. Now, I want you to listen, very carefully. My friend, you are God's plan.

You are God's plan. All of God's great plans, according to the scripture, involve you and me.

We are God's plan. We're a part of God's plan.

God is personally involved, in on, up to, down on, in your circumstances, involving himself

in the difficulties and the strenuous pressures and tensions and doubts and fears

and frustrations and temptations to hopelessness. He's in on everything that's roughing

you up. He's in on it. He says, I will never leave you nor forsake you.

He's always there.

But if my focus is upon the rough times and not the reality of Christ living within me,

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