Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, January 24th.

Are you full of anxiety and stress while waiting to hear from God about something?

It might be that it's time to be still. Today's podcast brings

a reminder of the power of solitude. Stress not only creates tension and pressure upon our mind and our emotions, but also it can have a devastating effect upon our body.

And if you'll think about the society in which we live, there is conflict, confusion, and disorder, creating all kinds of distress.

In fact, you think about the environment that most of us live in and work around and people

we are around, oftentimes, there's a great deal of stress because of the

demands that are upon us, expectations by other people, the drive to succeed, the

fear of failure, all the things that create stress in people's lives

and the tragedy is there's no place to run and hide so you can absolutely

limit all stress in your life. Now most people are probably aware of some areas of

stress in their life or some of the causes and they attempt to do something about

it. The most devastating kind is the kind that you're not aware of and even though you're not aware of it, it's working against you every day and every night.

So the question is this, as the child of God, does he expect us to be continually

harassed by distress? Does he expect us to be defeated and act like the rest of

the world? Is it possible to live our lives in the midst of all the stressful things that go on and yet have peace and contentment and assurance and confidence and joy in our life in spot of that.

Do we have to live under our circumstances or is it possible for us to live above them?

Well, it is possible to live above them. Well, it is possible to live above them. We don't have to give

into them. We don't have to surrender to it. We don't have to take the world's

ways and its avenues that lead to disaster to deal with stress. So I want you to turn, if you will,

in the scriptures to one song. We could turn to many of them to find scriptures for

this. But in the fourth song, I want us to read just the first four verses, and the title of this message

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