Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, December 10th.

How much time do you spend scrolling through social media and the news headlines?

If you're not careful with that, your sense of peace can evaporate quickly.

Stay with us now for practical instruction on how to protect our peace.

Would you say that your life is characterized by one of peace,

or would you say it's rather by disturbance, anxiety, fretting, caring,

sometimes even to the point of being angry over your circumstance?

Whatever happened to that peace that you experienced and you thought,

this is absolutely wonderful?

Could you explain it?

Could you determine why you were so peaceful at that moment?

Was it something because of your outward circumstances that everything at that moment seemed to be in such perfect order in your life?

But why did you lose it? And could you have kept it? And can peace really be an attitude and an experience and a

joy in your life that's there most of the time and not just some time. 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 and how to protect it and how you can live in it daily.

And if you're one of those persons at which peace seems to be always just beyond

you, I want to tell you how you can find it, and I want to tell you how you can keep it. Let's look,

if you will, beginning in this fourth chapter. And let's just start with verse four. And Paul says,

rejoice in the Lord always. And again, I will say rejoice. Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. And then he says, be anxious for nothing.

But in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

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