Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday July 16th.

If you are in a tough situation and don't know what to do, stick around.

Today's podcast brings a life principle lesson that points to the strength that comes

from standing tall and strong through prayer.

Well life presents all kind of problems and sometimes we don't know how to respond. Sometimes we think

Lord where are you in the midst of all this? Why don't you do something? And

sometimes we think well Lord if you really and truly love me, you wouldn't let this happen, or if you really truly love me, you'd show me what to do with this point in my life.

So sometimes we are perplexed, we don't know exactly what to do, but there is always

one thing that is the right thing to do, every single solitary time and that's what I

want to talk about in this message because

here's the passage of scripture and in fact the whole book is all about the right

thing to do every single time. So I want you to turn it to you will to the

book of Nehemile. And you think, well that's the Prophet. How could that be the right thing to do

every single time? Well you'll see in moment, and let me give you little background.

There am I is a cupbearer under our exercses, who is the king,

and he's the cupbearer for him which means that he has a very

responsible position and one that requires a great deal of him. Well here he'd been there for some time and his brother and some

others come to him from Jerusalem and say to him, I want to tell you what's going

on in Jerusalem. The gates have burned and the walls have broken down and there's chaos and every direction.

There's nothing going on that we can say is good.

Now, 140 years before this, the Babylonians came in and destroyed the walls and and 140 years had gone by and they still had not rebuilt the walls. So therefore they were subject

to all kind of enemies who continually harassed them. So in the process of them telling

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