Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, January 4.

As a believer in Jesus, you are secure in the keeping power of God.

Today's podcast can help you rest in his sovereign care, no matter what comes your way.

When you pick up the Bible and turn to the Psalms,

you do not have to read very long until you discover that the man who is writing these Psalms,

usually David, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is speaking to a God whom he knows personally.

He said, the Lord is my light and my salvation.

The Lord is my strength. The Lord is my son and my shield and my buckler.

The Lord is my shepherd. And then in the hundred and twenty-first Psalm,

he says, the Lord is thy keeper. He needs the slumbers, nor does he sleep.

That is, he is constantly actively keeping his children.

Now the word keep here is a military term that was used to describe a garrison of soldiers

that surrounded a city. Surrounded that city in order to protect it.

And there were many small cities that had no walls for protection. And so their army,

their army acted as a garrison, as a wall, as a preservation, as a keeper of the city.

Now here is the picture of God as our keeper, that is our protector.

But in 1 Peter, who is, he describes this, I believe in 1 Peter the 1st chapter,

he gives us the areas and the aspects in which God does keep our life.

Someone should turn to 1 Peter again for a moment and notice what he says in verse 5.

He says, who are kept by the power of God through faith, under salvation,

ready to be revealed in the last time. Every single believer is living in,

within the realm of the keeping power of God. There is not a one of us who is capable

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