Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, December 11th.

Power, wealth, or fame can be enticing, but those things do little to satisfy a vacant soul. Today's podcast points to a close

relationship with Jesus Christ as the only thing that brings true fulfillment.

When you think about hunger and thirst, they certainly are creations of God.

That's the way our body continues to live.

If there was no food, no water, we couldn't live long, especially with water.

And so when you think about what satisfies your physical

appetite, a number of things, what satisfies your spiritual appetite? And the

question is do you even really have a spiritual appetite. And the question is, do you even really have a spiritual appetite? I want you to

turn, if you will, to Psalm 42 and listen to what David says as he thought about his own life

and what was happening at this particular time.

Let me give you a little background.

He's away from Jerusalem at this point.

It may be the time when Absalom had sort of won the people over and

driven his own father away. And he starts this chapter off by talking about a deer panting. And so more than likely David had seen this it's upstream

or a pond somewhere and while he was watching that he probably thought about

this and later on to writing here's what he said in verse one of

Psalm 42 as the dear pants for the water brooks so my soul pants for you oh God my soul thirst for God for the living God. And more than likely when

he saw that at this particular time in his life he was thirsting and hungering and yearning

for things to be right and knowing in his own

heart that there was great trouble all around him and he knew within his own heart that what

he needed most of all was his relationship to the Lord and knowing in his heart that

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