Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, January 20th.

If you've been unfairly criticized, you share something with the Prophet Daniel.

Let's discover how to build unshakable faith that stands firm against life's injustices.

What does it take to shake your faith? Well, for the Apostle Peter, it took looking at the waves and the storm around him, and his faith began to wave and he began to sink.

For Thomas, it was the sight of the crucifixion that caused his faith to shake. For those disciples in the

upper room, having heard that Peter had been arrested, and knowing that James had been killed,

what is it that caused their faith to shake the death of James? What does it take to shake

yours? Bad news about your health?

Bad news about your finances?

Disappointment about some plan that you'd had that you just knew was going to work out the way you wanted it to work out.

Persecution, prolonged suffering.

I mean, it just goes on for weeks and months and years and you don't see any way out and no hope of any change. Does that shake your faith and rattle your

faith between you and God? Are you able to see those things and interpret them in the light

of what God says about himself in his word?

Well, that's what I want to talk about in this message.

And the title of this message is, Unshakeable Faith.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to the book of Daniel.

And I want us to look at the sixth chapter of this book.

So let me give you a little background of what's happening here.

And you recall that Daniel was one of those Hebrews who had been taken to Babylon

when Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king invaded Jerusalem, destroyed the city, burnt the wall, the gates, and on three occasions, 605, 597, and then again in 586,

he deported the top quality people over to Babylon to use them and to grow them up in the culture,

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