Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, December 2nd.

Is the weight of life leaving you feeling overwhelmed and stressed?

If so, the Book of Philippians Chapter 4 holds timeless principles to help you respond in a godly way when anxiety strikes.

Many people live with anxiety every day, most of the day, all year long.

Do you know how to deal with that?

That is not the will of the Father.

It's one thing to have brief moments of anxiety.

It's something else to live with it.

It's something else to find yourself it. It's something else to find yourself

in the mornings waking up with it, on your job thinking about it. It's something else to go to bed with

it. Wake up in the middle of the night with it. That's not what God intends for his children.

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. So let's look, if you will, beginning in this fourth

verse, and let's read through the ninth verses. He says, rejoice in the Lord always. And again,

I will say rejoice. Let your gentle spirit be known to all men the Lord is near

then here's what 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 peace of God that surpasses all comprehension.

That is, you just can't understand it.

We'll guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Then finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure,

whatever is lovely, whatever is good report. If there is any

excellence and anything worth of praise, dwell on these things. Then the ninth verse says,

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