Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, December 5th.

Stress can affect even the most grounded Christian.

Today, we'll look at why we lose our peace and what we can do to get it back.

Did you ever have anybody steal something from you?

Well, how did you respond? Were you angry because of the person or at the

person who wronged you? Or did you blame yourself because you felt like maybe you were just a

little bit careless and it shouldn't have happened? Well, it doesn't really make any difference

of what the situation was. The truth is, somebody intruded into your personal life

and took something from you, and you suffered the loss. Now, it may have been something

very significant that you owned, or something may be rather insignificant, but either way,

you suffered a loss and you felt it. And the degree to which you placed value on that object that was stolen was the thing

that really determined how much pain you felt, how much you suffered the loss. If it was something

very valuable to you, then you felt it more stronger than if it had been something

seldom insignificant.

And a lot of people who have no peace will give you some reason

and will tell you, well, if this were changed

and that were changed, and if he had done this

and she hadn't had done that, then I'd have peace in my heart.

No, that's not the answer.

And what I want to do in this message,

I want to tell you why we lose our peace. Now, what I'd like to do is I want

to give you seven categories of thinking, thoughts. Thoughts fall into seven categories. I want you to

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