Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, February 3rd.

Are you worried about what tomorrow might bring?

Or still fixated on what happened yesterday?

Focusing on God's truth can help you consistently live in lasting peace.

I want you to think about this verse if you'll turn to John chapter 14 for a moment,

because Jesus says something very significant here, this 14th chapter.

Fourteenth chapter of John the night before he's crucified now, and the disciples are all upset,

and they don't know what's going on.

They've heard himself a lot of things that didn't seem to match up with him if he was truly God

and if he's the son of God and he has all power.

This doesn't seem to match up in the process of all this.

Listen to what he says.

In the 27th verse, he said to them, peace I leave with you.

My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you he said I'm giving you a different kind so let's think about for just a moment look if you will in second

Thessalonians for a moment look if you will in chapter three and verse 16 listen to what Paul prayed and what he said about the Thessalonians. Second Thessalonians

chapter 3, verse 16. He says, now may the Lord of peace himself continually grant you peace when

in every circumstance. He didn't say just grant you peace, period, grant you peace in every circumstance.

Why? Because peace is available in every circumstance no matter what. Now, it is not a matter of my opinion,

is what God says. So I want you to turn, if you will, to the 57th chapter of Isaiah.

We've seen in the New Testament, he says peace is in him. It's bound in a

relationship with him. And so he says in Isaiah 57, look at this. But the wicked are like the

tossing sea. It cannot be quiet. Its waters toss up refuse and mud. There is no peace, says,

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