Welcome to the In touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, January 22nd.

As a believer in Jesus, God is always with you, even when he may seem far away.

Here's part one of looking beyond our disappointments.

When you experience disappointments in your life,

how do you respond?

Do you respond by suddenly immediately blaming

yourself, what did you do wrong if out of this or if out of that? Or do you look around to see

somebody else you can blame? Well, oftentimes we face disappointments in our life and we don't know exactly how to respond. What to say, what to do, how to react to them because oftentimes we can't quite identify what the

real cause is, what the purpose is, and so sometimes we get stalled right where we are and

we get stalled right on dead center and we where we can't reach our goals,

can't reach our goals, we can't reach our desires,

and oftentimes instead of moving on in life

and progressing in life and using each of those times of

disappointment as times to learn and to move on and use them as stepping stones in

life we just get stalled right there.

And so we will either find ourselves stalled and derailed out of God's will in our life,

or we'll find ourselves beginning to understand what God was up to, moving on in life, and learning from those disappointments, and beginning to experience the joy of the Lord and progress in our life in areas that we've never even

experienced before.

But the issue is how do we respond to them?

So I want you to turn, if you will, to the 11th chapter of John.

This chapter is full of truth about many different subjects.

And the one I want to talk about here is simply this.

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