Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, March 7th.

Sometimes the situations we face seem almost unbearable. The pressure can be crushing at times.

Let's learn about God's word as the key to lifting the weight of our burdens.

Well, all of us are familiar with burdens in our life, and I'm sure that if we took

time to have testimony tonight, that everybody in here could stand up and say, here's the burden

of my heart, or here's the burden of my life, or here's what has burdened me the most,

or here's what has sort of worn away at me. This is what's made me discouraged. This is how it

becomes so we're in life, and this is what I don't understand, and This is what's made me discouraged. This is how it becomes so we're in life.

And this is what I don't understand. And this is what I don't understand why God doesn't do

thus. And so all of us understand something about burdens. But usually we probably think about

burdens just being one particular thing. And so I want to talk about the kind of burdens we bear.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to Matthew Chapter 11.

And here Jesus has been talking, speaking to His Heavenly Father, and he comes to a particular

verse here that I want us to read.

A wonderful invitation that Jesus gives us, and certainly one that those who listened to him

and heard this felt awesomely, overwhelmingly, lovingly invited to him when he said in verse 28 of Matthew chapter 11, come unto me all who are weary and heavy laden, I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I'm gentle and humble and heart,

and you shall find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my load is light. All of us carry

loads in our life at times and for different reasons. So I want us to think for just a moment

about this whole idea of a burden. A burden is a heaviness.

It's a weight we feel.

That may be motivated by a number of things, but it is sort of a weight in the heaviness that you and I feel in our heart and our spirit.

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