Welcome to the In-Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, May 22nd.

How do you keep going when your world seems to be caving in?

Today, Dr. Stanley's message explains how to stay in step with God through times of trial.

The genuineness of our faith and our devotion, our love, our walk for God really isn't revealed

in times when you and our having everything going our way with ease, comfort, and pleasure.

They're revealed when we're going through difficult times, trying times, and sometimes maybe

our faith may almost be a little bit shaken. Those are the times that reveal the genuineness of who we are and what we are.

It's much easier to declare our faith and devotion than it is to demonstrate it.

We've been talking about walking with God and what's involved in that.

We've been talking about what are the requirements of that?

What can we expect?

And today I want to take a biblical character and illustrate one of the most awesome truths when it comes to walking with God.

And as I think back over the years and think

about things that God has taught me, one of the most precious lessons I've learned, I learned

as a result of simply reading the biblical characters, how they live their lives, their failures,

and all the rest. And some of those are like Joseph and David, Daniel, and a few others.

But I found something in the life of Joseph that absolutely strengthened me and has been

a part of that strength all these years.

And what I want to do in this passage of Scripture today, which is really Genesis from 37,

primarily, all the way to 50.

It doesn't mean that we'll take all of that, but it's the truth in those chapters.

It's something that happened in his life.

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