Welcome to [music] the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, January 15th. Do you need encouragement [music] and reassurance today? When life leaves you weary or uncertain, God offers the [music] peace and strength your heart longs for. Stay with us for a powerful and uplifting message about the God of all comfort, [music] who not only sees your pain, but knows how to restore your hope.
God is called by many names, but one of the most comprehensive of all of those names is the one that he identified himself when he spoke to Moses. And Moses said, “Now, what am I going to tell these people when I go back and whom am I going to say has sent me?” And God the Father, Jehovah said, “You tell them, the I am has sent you.
I am the creator. I am the redeemer. I am the Savior. I am the Lord. I am the light. I am the water. I am the bread. I am the door. I am the way. I am the life. I am. I am. I am. Not I was, not I shall be, but I am. That is God’s great comprehensive title, the great I am. But you know, when I’m thinking about sometimes that I need the Lord in different areas of my life, when I’m going through some difficulty, a hardship, I sort of like to have a name that sort of identifies with what I’m facing. For example, let’s say that you
and I are hurting about something. Well, there is a title given by God for himself in the scriptures that best suits me, I think, when I’m really hurting. Which brings me to the title of this message. and brings me to the theme of it. It’s what I want to talk about. It’s a title given by God about himself through the apostle Paul that all of us who hurt once in a while we need to hear him and that is the God of all comfort.
So I want you to turn if you will to 2 Corinthians chapter 1. And um let’s look if you will in verse three and read these first 11 verses together remembering now that Paul was a man who knew all about hardship, heartaches, trials. And if you read the whole book of 2 Corinthians, you will define very clearly in the fourth chapter, he’s talking about our afflictions, perplexed, desparing, persecuted, struck down.
