Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, January 15th. Do you need encouragement and reassurance today? When life leaves you weary or uncertain, God offers the peace and strength your heart longs for. Stay with us for a powerful and uplifting message about the God of all comfort, who not only sees your pain but knows how to restore your hope.

God is called by many names, but one of the most comprehensive of all of those names is the one that he identified himself.

When he spoke to Moses and Moses said, now, what am I going to tell these people when I go back

and who am I going to say has sent me and God the Father Jehovah said you tell them the I am has sent

you I am the creator I am the redeemer I am the Savior I am the Lord I am the creator. I am the Redeemer. I am the Savior. I am the Lord. I am the light. I am the water. I am the bread. I am the door. I am the way. I am the life. I am. Not I was, not I shall be, but I am. That is God's great comprehensive title, the great I am. But you know,

when I'm thinking about sometimes that I need the Lord in different areas of my life, when I'm

going through some difficulty, a hardship, I sort of like to have a name that sort of identifies

with what I'm facing.

For example, let's say that you and I are hurting about something.

Well, there is a title given by God for himself in the scriptures that best suits me, I think,

when I'm really hurting, which brings me to the title of this message and brings me to the theme

of it. It's what I want to talk about. It's a title given by God about himself through the

Apostle Paul that all of us who hurt once in a while we need to hear him, and that is the God

of all comfort. So I want you to turn, if you will, to Second

Corinthians, chapter one. And let's look, if you will, in verse three and read these first

11 verses together, remembering now that Paul was a man who knew all about hardship,

heartaches, trials, and if you read the whole book of 2nd Corinthians, you will define

very clearly.

In the fourth chapter, he's talking about our afflictions, perplexed, despairing, persecuted,

struck down.

Then if you go on over to chapter 11, he's talking about all of these things he'd been

through, imprisoned, beaten, and all the rest.

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