Welcome to the In Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, May 29th.

If you feel isolated and forgotten, today's podcast will remind you that as a believer in Jesus, you will never walk alone.

Stay with us to get to know our constant companion.

Well, you know, all of us need companions.

Loneliness isn't something we like.

Nobody likes to be alone.

And all of us like good friends, real companions.

People you can trust, people you can rely upon, people that'll help you when you're in need,

people who can laugh with you, cry with you, work with you, whatever it might be.

And Jesus certainly understood that,

and the Heavenly Father understands it. And when Jesus was coming to the end of his ministry,

this idea of companionship was very important because he had been relating to these men for

three years. He called them. They laid down everything they had,

and they began to follow him as they had been fishing. And as a result, they had seen some of the

most awesome experiences in life. They had watched people rise from the dead. They had seen

people healed of everything imaginable. They'd been

fishing when you couldn't believe that that many fish were even in the lake. In

there was, everywhere they turned, they had this wonderful, awesome relationship with Jesus.

They didn't always understand him. When Jesus began to talk about something happening to him

and the scribes in the Pharisees

is going to persecute him, Peter said it's not going to happen. So when we look at Peter and we think,

well, he shouldn't have said that. But what does that say? It says that Peter had such a relationship

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