Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, January 29th. Are you worried about

something? If finding consistent inner peace feels impossible, discover the key to contentment on

today's podcast. While sitting in jail, the Apostle Paul gave us the key to contentment.

And he wrote it in this fashion when he said in Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 and 7,

be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,

let your request be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses

all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Now, this is the second

part of two messages dealing with the key to contentment. If someone should ask you, what do you mean by

contentment, what would you say? And so you may answer it in this fashion, that contentment

is the feeling that you're able to cope with your circumstances, whatever they may be.

It is a sense of sufficiency that comes in our sufficiency in Christ Jesus.

It is the capacity to deal with my ever-changing circumstances of life without becoming restless on the inside or full of fear.

For you see, the opposite of contentment is anxiety.

And anxiety is this foreboding about the uncertainty of the future.

It is the fear that develops as a result of my feeling that I don't have everything under control.

It is an uneasiness that creates tension and stress.

It is the sense of fear that comes upon us because we're not quite sure

how our circumstances are going to turn out. And we said, if you'll recall, that when you trace

the roots of anxiety, you find them in fear, unbelieve, and our attempt to play God. Now,

in the light of all that, the question comes,

how do you and I discover how to live in contentment on an ongoing basis?

Now, that does mean that every single moment of your life

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