In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on in touch, part one of My Assurance God is in control.

In one of the most painful and difficult seasons of my life when oftentimes I was a little discouraged and fearful and feeling threatened and feeling

all alone, my friend would say to me, but remember God is in control.

Oftentimes he and I would sit with a fire in the evening and

we would talk and he let me pour out my heart and tell him what I was thinking

and tell him about my hurts and over and over again when he would

sense a little bit of discouragement within me or something that I was really

having a difficult time dealing with he would say to me remember God is in control. That factual

statement became an anchor to my life and no matter how hard the winds began to blow and how much the adversity seemed to intensify,

somehow my soul got anchored to that simple truth.

God is in control. And I discovered by experience that when a person can

come to the place in their life that they can say with absolute unwavering conviction,

my God is in control. There is an awesome sense of

strength and power and assurance and confidence and peace and indescribable joy that can fill your heart to the

overflow no matter what you have to face in life and that's what I want to talk

about in this message entitled, My assurance, God is in

control.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to Psalm 103.

In this 103, in this 1003 Psalm, David expresses in these few verses something that certainly he had to believe years and years of his life.

More than likely, he learned it the way most of us have to learn it, but we learn it with a little

bigger better advantage of the fact that we have the word of God that teaches it, but

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