Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, March 30th.

The story of Jesus in the Garden of Getsimony is familiar.

But today, you'll see how it speaks directly to the emotional pain we all experience.

When you are suffering pain, whether it be physical pain or emotional pain,

and it becomes so intense that you even

despair of your future.

Where do you turn?

There are many places you can turn, but the most helpful, healthiest, most encouraging,

the best place you can turn, the most rewarding place you can turn

is to the Word of God. It's all right here. And what God has done, he's given us in the experiences

of his children in the past and of his servants, he's given us principles. He's shown us how in

their lives he worked during those difficulties

and hardship so that you and I might also learn how to deal with these things so that what happens

is because they know how to respond, the very pain that would destroy them ends up in enriching

them and preparing them for greatest service

of the Lord. Well, what I want to talk about in this message is simply this, and that is, I want to

talk about the experience Jesus had probably the longest, most difficult night of his life.

I want to talk about lessons we learn in

Gethsemini. And I want you to turn, if you will, to the 26th chapter of Matthew. Jesus has just

finished the Lord's Supper with him. And Peters just told him how faithful he was going to be.

And so they crossed the valley up to the Garden of Githemeny,

and now in that garden where Jesus so many times went alone to be alone with the Father,

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