Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, December 1st.

How do you handle the powerful emotions that rise up in stressful moments?

The fourth chapter of Philippians offers practical help for what to do when anxiety strikes.

Join us now for today's podcast.

God does not desire for his children to be hampered down, almost strangled with anxiety,

because anxiety can do many things to you that are very, very uncomfortable, not all that, very unhealthy.

So not only how do we overcome anxiety, but listen carefully. How do we maintain a lifestyle in which we

are not plagued with anxiety? Does that mean that you'll never have any? No. It's one thing to have

brief moments of anxiety. It's something else to live with it. And so I want you to turn to probably the best

passage in the whole word of God about anxiety. And that is Philippians chapter 4. And if you'll turn

there, and I'm going to think about this title, and that is when anxiety strikes, because that's

exactly what it does. But listen to what Paul says. Now remember where he is when he's writing this.

It's very important to remember this.

Paul is in a Roman prison, chained to a Roman soldier.

And when you think about that, you think, how in the world could a man be in a prison,

not like we have today with air conditioning, good food and television, but chained

in a Roman prison that has none of that. And here in this four chapter epistle, six times

he talks about rejoicing, and seven times he uses the word joy. And then to top it all off

in this fourth chapter, listen to what he says in this, look in the word joy. And then to top it all off in this fourth chapter, listen to what he says

in this, look in the tenth verse. He says, writing to these Philippians, but I rejoiced in the

Lord greatly that now at last you have revived your concern for me. Indeed, you were concerned

before, but you lacked the opportunity. That is, they had supported him. And listen

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