Welcome to the In Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, August 19th.

Life can sometimes feel like dredging through a dark canyon.

Today, we continue the Life Principal Series to help us learn how to survive and thrive in the valley.

God has given us something to remind us in a very few verses how awesome his love is for us. His desire to protect

us and watch over us and care for us. So I want you to turn to the 23rd Psalm. And let's read this

song and what I want us to look at primarily is verse

number four while we talk about all of it. It's this fourth verse I want us to

look at because I'm going to talk about the believers It's

to look at because I want to talk about the believer's valley experience,

the times you and I go through those valleys in our life.

And so he begins, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside steel waters. He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. And this is where I always want to go back to the King James

version. Because somehow when you say, I fear no evil for you with me. There's something about saying I fear no evil for

valor with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies, you

have anointed my head with oil, my cup runneth over, surely goodness and loving kindness,

will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the

house of the Lord forever. So what is the believers Valley experience? It is an experience that all of us experience many times in our life. And remember this,

you can't have mountains without valleys. So if you have mountains, you've got valleys and if there is a valley experience

there is a mountain peak experience most people don't know how to operate in

the valley all they don't know how to operate in the valley, or they don't understand why God allows

valley experiences in our life. Remember this, he's not interested in his

in his pleasure he can he can provide that what he's interested in is relationship

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