Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, April 22nd.

Are you truly joyful?

Do you experience deep peace and tranquility in your soul?

If these feelings only arise when life is going your way,

the series helps to holiness reveals the importance of building quietness into your life every day,

regardless of your circumstances.

If you'll notice all the way back through the Bible, God used quietness in the life of his servants.

When Moses, in his very noisy first 40 years of his life, attempting to do God's work in his own

strength and his own way, God set him aside and sent him to the back side of the desert, and for 40

years, Moses experienced the quietness of a shepherd. Before that, he had grown up in the noisy, tumultous civilization of Egypt,

in the very height of everything that was happening. He was in the very household of the Pharaoh himself.

Before God could get to Moses and prepare him for leadership for the nation of Israel, he had to get him quiet.

Then slip to the New Testament to the Apostle Paul.

Before Paul began his ministry, God set him aside, sent him into the desert for a period of time

in order to get him out of the noise of his conversion experience,

the noise and the tumult of those who are

after him in order to instruct him and teach him and give him a sense of direction for his life.

And I want us to see in this fourth chapter, First Desolonians, some very specific and clear

commands that God has given to us who are believers about quietness.

Now, you don't expect a lost man to be quiet.

He may keep his mouth closed, but a man can keep his mouth shut and be as loud as ever.

So we're not talking about just verbal silence.

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