Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, December 5th.

No matter what life froze at you, if you're a Christian, you can face it with unshakable peace.

Today's podcast helps you to see your circumstances in the light of God's unlimited power.

When we think about peace, we usually think about feeling good. But in the scriptures,

there are two kinds of peace. One of them is the peace that we call the peace with God. And peace

with God means that you and I make a decision to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our

personal savior. And that brings through a halt

the opposition and the hostility and the inmate of God and ourselves. He forgives us of our

sins and saves us and places us into his family and we become the children of God. That's when

you and I experience peace with God. The war is over

and we have become his children no longer as enemies. But after you and I become a child of God,

we have to live in this world full of anxieties and fears and frustrations and all kinds of

troubles and trials and tribulations. Now the Bible talks about the peace of God. And what Paul

is talking about in this passage is just that, the peace of God which surpasses all human understanding.

And he's writing to these Philippian Christians as wonderful a message of joy and peace. And he says in

verse 5, let your forbearing spirit spirit your yielded spirit be known to all men

the lord is near and then he says be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication

with thanksgiving let your request be made known to god and the the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,

or surpasses all comprehension,

shall guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Now, when we talk about peace,

let's think about that peace of God for just a moment,

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