Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, February 2nd.

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Which of these words would describe the most predominant emotion that you have to deal with each day of your life

that is this is the emotion that's always seemingly laying in there this is the one you sort of wake up with

or sometimes you can forget it but most of the time it's the overriding predominant

emotion in your life. So let me just mention several of them. For example, conflict, rejection,

emptiness, loneliness, rushed, overwhelmed, empty, or peace? Which one of those best describes your predominating emotion,

the one that sort of overwhelms and overrides all of the emotions that you have? You have

changing emotions all of us do, But probably there's one that sort of

permeates all the rest of them. Is it possible for us to live with a steadfast peace? Is it possible

for us to live in the midst of difficulty, in hardship, in a world full of conflict? When there is

want and need? Is it possible for us to face needs in our life and still

have peace? Is it possible for us to walk through storms and still have peace? Is it possible to

suffer loss and still have peace? Is this simply an empty promise or is this the real thing?

What is that dominating emotion that's always

laying back there in your life? Well, it's interesting that the prophet Isaiah, when he was

talking about the coming Messiah, he prophesied his coming, and then he described him in a beautiful

way. And I want you to turn, if you will, to Isaiah

Chapter 9. Isaiah is a wonderful, wonderful prophet of things to come. And one of his most beautiful

prophecies, one of the most important ones, is in this ninth chapter of his prophecy. He says,

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