Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday July 25th.

Have you ever felt surrounded by a cloud of disappointment?

Let's learn to shake those oppressive feelings as Dr. Stanley's life principles series helps in 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?

What causes you to be distressed? What causes you to be discouraged? Well, if you

watch the news every night, more than likely that would discourage you for sure.

But it just might be that you are looking at your mortgage payment and thinking there's no way.

You don't have a job, you're hurting, your family's hurting, you can lose

it all, so you have lots of reasons to feel discouraged. And so what you have to ask is this? You have to ask yourself. How long is this going on? And you may even ask the question, where is God? He said he would help me, but at this point I don't see anything going on 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 want to talk about in this message

is overcoming discouragement.

And I want to read two or three verses here

in the Psalms that express how David was feeling. He's asking himself, why are you in despair,

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