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

Next on In Touch, walking through dark times with God.

When you go through dark moments in your life and you don't understand exactly what's going on.

You can't figure out why things are happening the way they are.

You look around you, you don't see any real reason or purpose for it.

Or you may even look for somebody to blame or feel somebody's responsible.

Or it just might be that you come to the place you think, God, where are you?

You don't sense his presence anymore.

And how could God possibly love you and allow you to walk through such awesome darkness as you feel?

And somehow, no matter what you do and how spiritual you may feel like you have been,

you're going through a period of time in your life,

and you have absolutely no understanding of what is going on,

and how long is this going to last, and why do I feel this pain,

why do I feel the hurt, what did I do to deserve this? How do you respond when you've

had those feelings in those moments of darkness? Well, that's what I want to talk about in this

message entitled, Walking with God Through Dark Times. I want you to turn, if you will, to

Genesis, first book in the Bible. I want us to look, if you will, to Genesis, first book in the Bible. Want us to look, if you will, beginning in this 37th chapter, because in this 37th chapter

begins the story of the life of Joseph, all the way to the end of the book of Genesis, 50,

chapter 50.

And you say, well, why would you choose someone like Joseph?

Because here's a young man who walked through the darkness for 13 years before the light

absolutely broke in awesome radiance upon him.

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