If you don't do it, God is not going to get done.

And there's nothing wrong with saying, God, you must do it.

What I'm saying is God, I have exhausted all possibilities.

I'm absolutely helpless.

God, you must do it.

You'll never be able to live in contentment and joy and peace and happiness and the grace

of God until you learn to be able to say, God, I need you, I desperately need you, Father,

I don't know what to do, I don't know what to turn, I need you.

Tragedy, heartache, adversity, they can leave us feeling hopeless.

Today on In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley, we'll hear one of his

messages from 2001 and find hope in a story about an Old Testament King.

It's found in 2 Chronicles 20.

How the hope that kept King Jehoshivat going can be your hope too.

Here's part one of When We Feel Helpless.

Some time ago I found myself facing a situation that caused me to feel very helpless.

I didn't know what to do, I didn't know which way to turn, I knew I didn't have a solution,

whatsoever.

Now helplessness means that you have passed the point of personal manipulation, that there's

not anything you can do.

Helplessness means that you are now at the mercy of God.

Well I think I've been there enough times in my life to have learned exactly what to

do and that is the open God's word and to find the past of Scripture with those principles

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