In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, Trumphant Joy.

When you are going through difficulties and disappointments and trying times in your life, how do you respond?

What's the difference in your conduct, in your temperament, even in your facial expressions,

when you're going through a hard time, or when things that just just suits you fine.

What's the difference?

Do you let the hard times get you down?

Do you find yourself being less friendly?

Do you find yourself having a hard time making decisions?

What upsets you? Now, you say that you've trusted Jesus

Christ as your personal Savior, and your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, and

you are a happy person. But when things are not going your way and you suffer real disappointments or hurt or physical

pain, how do you respond? Does it absolutely wipe you out? Does your disposition change

to the point that people say, well, what happened to you? I thought he was a Christian. What's all this about?

Are you the same person when things are going right

and when things are going wrong?

When you find yourself disappointed

and you want to hang it up and walk away,

whatever happened to your faith?

Whatever happened to your relationship with Christ?

That relationship doesn't change.

Maybe the way you express it changes a little bit, but that's because maybe you've never

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