Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, February 9th.

Have you ever felt like everything just keeps going from bad to worse?

Even when you're overwhelmed, God's grace can help you rise above.

Listen to today's podcast. Out of this wreck, I rise.

If you'll turn to Romans chapter 8 and beginning in verse 31 and verse 39 are probably some of the most

comforting and reassuring verses to be found in the Bible anywhere.

And Paul deals with a problem here that all of us face and that is how we're to respond

to circumstances

and difficulties in our own life. And when a person understands what that means, sometimes they

come out of it shouting, out of this wreck, I rise as conqueror, not as victim. And so he says in

verse 31, what then shall we say to these things,

if God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare his own son, but delivered him up for us

all, how will he not also with him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies. Who is the one who

condemns? Christ Jesus is the one who died. Yes, rather, who was raised, who is at the right hand

of God who also intercedes for us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution

or famine or neckiness or peril or sword, just as it is written, for thy sake we are being put to death all day long?

We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered. But in all these things, we overwhelmingly conquer through him who loved us.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,

no things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing

shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

God did not make us to be immune from trouble, but rather, he promised to be with us through the trouble.

He didn't promise to always remove the trouble, but he promised to be with us through it.

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