Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, January 25th.

It may seem illogical, but the busier you are, the more you need to make the time to be alone with God.

Today's podcast highlights the power of solitude.

We live in a very real corrupt carnal world

that's working against most of what we believe and

working against our very physical bodies. And I believe in this message if you'll

listen carefully.

God will show you how to deal with stress in your life.

He will help you to overcome one of those very, very painful causes

of distress in your life. Now think for just a moment. If you go back in the

Old Testament for a moment and think about some of the old saints of God that he

brought into solitude, that is he took them from where they were, brought them to himself,

kept them alone to himself for a season of time.

Think about how many times you now read the Psalms.

David is going through all kinds of difficulty in hardship and pain. He's running from

salt and running here and running on the trying to put things together and his life is just

in one big turmoil continuously. How many times does he say to us things like this? But know

that the Lord is set apart the Godly man for himself. Meditate in your heart upon your

bed and be still. And be still and know that I'm God he says be silent

often on up and down all through the Psalms we sense this man's heart and he

exposes his heart he's so very transparent. Now what is God's

purpose for calling you and me to himself for desiring to want you alone with

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