Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, December 9th.

Anxiety and stress are such a part of today's way of life that many people just live with it.

How about you? Is there a constant undercurrent of fear in your life, making it feel impossible to find true peace?

In today's podcast, we'll hear how to live in the peace of God, regardless of the chaos that rages around us. When is the last time

that you could ever remember experiencing absolute peace in your heart? How long did it last? Why did you lose it? Is that kind of

peace something that just comes once in a while in your life? Or is it something that is there

most of the time? Is it only there when you get some spiritual high? is it that you just don't believe that's the way

life is. Have you finally concluded that somehow peace is just something that comes once in a while

and certainly in this perturbed world that we live in, peace is a very rare commodity and therefore

don't expect it unless you be totally disappointed in life.

Well, I want to tell you, you don't have to look at life that way.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to Philippians Chapter 4.

And here is the answer to how to protect that peace.

Here's the answer to understanding what it is, how to protect it and how you can live in it

daily. This is not written by somebody who's lying on the beach, who's very wealthy and very

prominent. This is written by a man who's a prisoner. He's in a prison in Rome, chained to a Roman

soldier at 24 hours a day.

They're unjustly accused, and there possibly at any moment could lose his life.

And yet in these four chapters he writes to the Philippian Church, he keeps on talking about joy

and rejoicing in the Lord and saying,

yes and again I say rejoice and talking about peace.

He's the man who says, I have learned that in whatever state I'm in,

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