In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, part two of hungering and thirsting for God.

On any given day of your life, what is the strongest emotion you feel?

Is it anger, bitterness,

distrust, anxiety, or is it love and trust and gratitude? All of us are expressing emotions toward other people in any given day,

and to whom are you expressing those strongest feelings you have?

And when you think about that person or those persons and you think about how you feel,

that those feelings drag you down and they lift you up? Well, what about this? How often during any given day do you think about

the Lord? What are your emotions? What do you feel? Do you feel love, acceptance? Do you feel

blessed? Do you feel trust? Or do you feel shame and embarrassment and

guilt and uncertainty? It is certain that whatever our relationship is with a person and

ever how much we know about that person, it's going to affect how we feel toward them.

So if you have a certain feelings toward a person, it's going to govern your relationship and

your action and whatever knowledge you have of that person, it's going to govern how you feel

and how you think. That's true of our relationship to God as well as to someone else.

So when you think about your relationship to the Lord, what governs that relationship?

What governs the way you feel? It's what you know about him and the kind of relationship you have.

And so I want us to look at the 6th the 3rd Psalm,

because in this Psalm, David is expressing what he feels toward His Heavenly Father,

what he feels concerning his relationship to him,

and what I'm going to talk about in this message is,

I want to talk about this whole idea

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