Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, May 11th. Does God seem distant?

Are you struggling to feel his presence? Discover assurance and understanding when it seems God hides his face.

Would you turn to Psalm 142 for just a moment? And let me ask you the question.

Have you ever felt like this?

Psalm 142, I cried unto the Lord with my voice.

With my voice under the Lord did I make my supplication. I poured out my complaint

before him. I showed before him my trouble. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou

knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked, have they privately laid a snare for me. I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no man that would know me.

Refuge failed me.

No man cared for my soul.

Or could it be that you felt like what he says in Deuteronomy, that 28th chapter in the 23rd verse when he says when a man

prays he says the heavens are like brass and the earth is like iron something is wrong somehow

not getting through or has could it be that you have felt like Jesus felt when he prayed from the cross

my God my God why hast thou forsaken me and the psalmist so often cries out God where are you

in a sense of depression and loneliness and frustration and fear and anxiety reaching out for

God where are you and on the other hand, he says,

I'll be with you even through the shadows of the darkness of a deep valley. I suppose there are

more people hurting today than most of us ever begin to realize. And people ask the question, why is it when I pray?

I don't feel God saying anything. I reach up and I don't hear anything. I just can't seem to touch God.

My heart is breaking. I'm weeping on the inside. It's like I'm being closed in. I'm in a deep

dark cave. I'm imprisoned that there are shackles on my hand. There's shackles on my inside. It's like I'm being closed in. I'm in a deep dark cave. I'm imprisoned that

are shackles on my hand. There's shackles on my feet. And somehow I can't get my life

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