You're going to. In touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley,

reaching the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Next on in touch, overcoming discouragement.

Are you discouraged? Do you know why?

What's going on in your life that would cause you to be depressed, lost hope, don't see anything in your

future whatsoever, what's going on inside of you? What causes you to be distressed? What causes you to be

discouraged? Well if you watch the news every night, more than likely that would

discourage you for sure. But it just might be that you are looking at your

mortgage payment and thinking there's no way. You don't have a job, you're

hurting, your family's hurting, you could lose it all, so you have lots of reasons to feel discouraged.

And so what you have to ask is this, you have to ask yourself, how long is this going on?

And you may even ask the question where's God he said

he would help me but at this point I don't see anything going on and so maybe you feel

like you've been caught in this grip of discouragement. It's a cloud that

covers you, like you're walking in the fog and you don't see any help anywhere along the way.

Well one of the most powerful servants of God in the scripture was David, and he went through

difficult times just like that, times of great sorrow and heartache and discouragement, but he had an

answer. He discovered how to deal with discouragement. And what I want to talk about in

this message is overcoming discouragement. And I want to read two or three

verses here in the Psalms that express how David was feeling. He was asking

himself, why are you in despair, oh my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me?

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