Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, January 30th.

Are you facing some turmoil that just doesn't seem to go away?

Today you'll be urged to look to Jesus Christ for all the strength you need for overcoming the ups and downs of life.

Life holds for all of us those seasons of ups and downs. That is by ups,

I mean those times when you and I are encouraged and things are going our way and we're happy

and contending with our circumstances. And then those times when we are down, that is when we feel

discouraged, disillusion, disheartened, depressed, disenchanted

with our circumstances, things are going against us rather than for us. The question is,

how do you and I respond with the ups and downs in life? We'll never be able to come to the place in

life where we can just smooth it all out. Everything is going

our way. In fact, when it is, isn't it strange how you and I respond? When we've been through

difficulty in hardship and heartache and changing circumstances, and then for a season of time,

everything sort of levels out for a little while and things start going our way, we think,

uh-oh, something's

going to happen because things are too good. And what we do is we begin to suspect the goodness of

God. And God gives us those seasons when things are sort of light and things are little easy,

and then there are those seasons of ups and downs. How do you respond to the ups and downs of life?

Well, that's what our text tells us about, and the title of this message is, overcoming the

ups and downs of life. And I want you to turn, if you will, to Philippians chapter four.

And in this fourth chapter, Paul gives us what he calls a secret to learning

how to overcome the ups and downs of life. And beginning in verse 10, you'll recall, he says,

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last, you have revived your concern for me. Indeed, you were concerned

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