Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, July 24th.

Do you feel down?

Maybe a little disheartened?

You don't have to stay there.

The Life Principal Series continues with guidance for overcoming discouragement.

Are you discouraged?

Do you know why? What's going on in your life that would cause you to be

depressed? Lost hope? Don't see anything in your future whatsoever, what's going on inside of you.

And so maybe you feel like you've been caught in this grip of discouragement.

It's a cloud that covers you, like you're walking in the fog and

you don't see any help anywhere along the way. Well one of the most powerful

servants of God in the scripture was David.

And he went through difficult times just like that,

times of great sorrow and heartache and discouragement.

But he had an answer. He discovered how to deal

with discouragement and what I'm going to talk about in this message is overcoming

discouragement and I want to read two or three verses here in the Psalms that

expressed how David was feeling. He's asking himself, why are you in despair

oh my soul and why have you become disturbed within me?

Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him.

Then he says again in the next chapter,

Why are you in despair, O my soul, and why are you disturbed within me? So here is a man that has

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