Fear causes all kinds of problems in our life. We've all been there for either a few seconds

or a few moments or maybe a few days or a few weeks and some people a lot longer than

that. Living under this awesome, horrible cloud of fear, what's going to happen next?

I don't know what kind of decision to make. No child of God has ever been hopeless when

it comes to the reality of things. You may feel fearful. You may feel absolutely helpless

to change your circumstances, but if God is your God, you have no reason to be hopeless.

Welcome to In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley. Have you ever faced

a difficult situation that left you with few or no options? Today we'll continue listening

to one of Dr. Stanley's messages from 2001 and find encouragement to face trouble with

strong faith in God. Like King Jehoshaphat, turn your attention to the Lord and closely follow

him. Here's part two of When We Feel Helpless. I want you to turn if you will to 2nd Chronicles

chapter 20. Now give you a little bit of background while you're turning there. We'll just read

the first four verses of this chapter, but we'll take the whole chapter, at least most

of it. What has happened is Jehoshaphat, who is the king of the nation of Israel, is a

good king. In fact, the Bible says about him in the 19th chapter that he set his heart

to seek the Lord God. The Bible says that the Lord had used him to bring the people back

to the Lord, the God of their fathers. And so he's a good king. And suddenly he gets this

message. And the message is that there are three armies, three nations, three tribes that

have come together and their goal, their purpose is to attack him and his people and to

destroy them and to take what belongs to them. And this passage of Scripture is Jehoshaphat's

response to what he says is a very helpless, a very powerless situation, which he did not

know what to do next. So I want us to read these first four verses together to give us

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