Welcome to the in-touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, December 12th.

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Today's podcast reminds us, genuine contentment and peace only come when we hunger and thirst 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 in Thanksgiving?

All of us are expressing emotions to other people in any given day and to whom are you

expressing those strongest feelings you have? 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 how much

we know about that person, it's going to affect how we feel toward them. And what I want to talk about in this message is,

I want to talk about this whole idea of hungering and thirsting for God,

and you'll see something in this passage

that I think reminds you of that.

Look at the 63rd Psalm and the first 8 verses. He says,

Oh God, you are my God. I shall seek you earnestly. My soul thirst for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Thus I've seen you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory.

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips will praise

you. So I will bless you as long as I live and I will lift up my hands in your name. My soul is

satisfied as with Maraara and fatness and my mouth offers

praises with joyful lips. When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in

the night watchers, but you have been my help in the shadow of your

wings I sing for joy my soul clings to you your right hand upholds me.

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