Valley experiences are absolutely inevitable in the life of every person.

It doesn't make any difference how old you are, one of these days you're coming through

them.

Makes no difference how rich you are, how poor, how educated or uneducated, where your

status is in life, Valley experiences difficult to hardships, trials, suffering, pain, it

is always going to be times and seasons in that life.

There is a pain that is indescribable in some walks in the valley.

To weep from your spirit deep down inside.

Welcome to In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

How do you hold on to your faith when life gets tough?

That's what we'd all like to be able to do.

Maybe that's why today's message, first preached in 1993, continues to be one of Dr.

Stanley's most lasting messages.

Maybe it's just what you need to hear too.

Here's Part One of the Believer's Valley experiences.

Our text for this message is probably the most familiar passage in all the Bible.

In fact, I can remember when I was a school kid that everybody had to memorize this passage.

And usually you will hear this passage of Scripture read at almost every single funeral.

Oftentimes it is read with the bedside of someone who is very, very ill.

And I'm sure that many of us have read the stories of men in war who in times of great

fear pulled out their little pocket new testament in the back of which was the Psalms and they

began to read out of fear, desiring courage and the presence of God to read.

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