Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, January 29th. Are you worried about something? If finding consistent inner peace feels impossible, discover the key to contentment on today’s podcast. >> While sitting in jail, the Apostle Paul gave us the key to contentment. And he wrote it in this fashion when he said in Philippians 4:es 6 and 7, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God which surpasses all

comprehension shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Now, this is the second part of two messages dealing with the key to contentment. If someone should ask you, what do you mean by contentment? What would you say? And so, you may answer it in this fashion that contentment is the feeling that you’re able to cope with your circumstances, whatever they may be.

It is a sense of sufficiency that comes in our sufficiency in Christ Jesus. It is the capacity to deal with my everchanging circumstances of life without becoming restless on the inside or full of fear. For you see the opposite of contentment is anxiety. And anxiety is this forboding about the uncertainty of the future.

It is the fear that develops as a result of my feeling that I don’t have everything under control. It is an uneasiness that creates tension and stress. It is the sense of fear that comes upon us because we’re not quite sure how our circumstances are going to turn out. And we said, if you’ll recall, that when you trace the roots of anxiety, you find them in fear, unbelief, and our attempt to play God.

Now, in the light of all that, the question comes, how do you and I discover how to live in contentment on an ongoing basis? Now, that doesn’t mean that every single moment of your life you’re just going to be happy and passive about circumstances because often times Satan will hit us from the blind side and for a moment we may be thrown off balance or for a moment we may become very tense and for a moment we may experience anxiety but it should only be for a very very brief moment of time because God has provided for his