Speaker 1: Beloved, hallelujah and shandon God bless you for connecting with
Speaker 1: us today for another episode of our morning glory devotion.
Speaker 1: Here and have best trouble international commercy. My name is
Speaker 1: Pasta Jeff your mars, and I'll be facilitating this morning's episode.
Speaker 1: Let's share a way of prayer. Father, we thank you
Speaker 1: for today and this opportunity to look into your word
Speaker 1: as we listen, we pray that you stay faith in
Speaker 1: our hearts and grants us grace to go and do
Speaker 1: what you're wearing. It sees in Jesus' name a man.
Speaker 1: Let's take our confession together from Joshua chapter one. There's eight.
Speaker 1: This book of the Law shall not depart out of
Speaker 1: my mouth, but I shall meditate in it day and night,
Speaker 1: that I may observe to do according to all that
Speaker 1: is written in it. For then I will make my
Speaker 1: way prosperous, and then I will have good success. A
Speaker 1: man beloved. The topic for today's episode is dealing with discouragement.
Speaker 1: Dealing with discouragement, will take our sculpture read him from
Speaker 1: Psalm forty two. There's five to six. Why are you
Speaker 1: cast down all my soul? And why are you disquieted
Speaker 1: within me, hope in God, for I shall yet praise
Speaker 1: Him for the help of his countenance. Oh, my God,
Speaker 1: my soul is cast down within me. Therefore I will
Speaker 1: remember you from the land of the Jordan and from
Speaker 1: the heights of Hermon. From the hill Misa a man
Speaker 1: dealing with discouragement. The battle with discouragement is real. Discouragement
Speaker 1: is not just a fleeting emotion. It is a tool
Speaker 1: used as a ground for attacking and waking our faith,
Speaker 1: clouding our vision, and pulling us back from God's papers.
Speaker 1: I listen to a narration of a story about the
Speaker 1: devil putting down his tools for sale. The story goes
Speaker 1: that he spread out the tools before the bias, including
Speaker 1: tools like hatred, envy, pride, deceit in line. Each was
Speaker 1: marked with a price on it, but off to the
Speaker 1: side lay one worn out over us, too priced higher
Speaker 1: than all the rest put together. One of the buyers asked,
Speaker 1: what is this one? Then the devil answered, this is
Speaker 1: the tool of discouragement. The buyer asks again, why is
Speaker 1: it so expensive, and the devil said, because it works
Speaker 1: better than all the others. With it, I get inside
Speaker 1: a person's soul better than any other tool, and it
Speaker 1: is worn out because I use it almost on everybody. Believed.
Speaker 1: Discouragement of a lies to us, and if we are
Speaker 1: not careful, we begin to believe the lives. One of
Speaker 1: these lies is that our struggles from God, and that
Speaker 1: God may have singled us out for suffering. Often, when
Speaker 1: we are discouraged, everything in our lives seems to be
Speaker 1: falling apart. Worst of all, we tend to feel that
Speaker 1: our condition is permanent to us. Things may never change. Beloved,
Speaker 1: these are all lies, and they are not from God.
Speaker 1: The truth is that God is fearful. He is present
Speaker 1: and actively waken even when we cannot see it. As believers,
Speaker 1: we are not without hope. The Bible tells us how
Speaker 1: even the greatest men of God faced the seasons of discouragement.
Speaker 1: David experienced it all betrayal laws. So yet in the
Speaker 1: midst of Spain, David did something powerful. He tended to
Speaker 1: God in his soul. We see him speak to himself,
Speaker 1: seeing why are that cast down all my soul? Hope
Speaker 1: Thou in the Lord David preached to himself believed. We
Speaker 1: must do the same. We must preach to ourselves and
Speaker 1: remind our hearts of God's truth even when our feelings
Speaker 1: see otherwise. Indeed, hope shines brightest in the darkest moment.
Speaker 1: True hope is not a trouble free life, but the
Speaker 1: assurance of God's presence within it when everything seems hopeless.
Speaker 1: That is often the very ground where our faith can
Speaker 1: begin to grow again. The Bible assures us that we
Speaker 1: should fear not because God is with us. God will
Speaker 1: indeed strengthen and help us. We are never alone, no
Speaker 1: matter how heavy the situation feels. We can overcome discouragement
Speaker 1: by remembering God's past works of faithfulness. When we look
Speaker 1: back and recall how God has delivered us from them,
Speaker 1: our faith is strengthened forward lies ahead. When our emotions
Speaker 1: are unstable, looking back and remembering testimonies of what God
Speaker 1: has done before for us and for others gives us
Speaker 1: a real hope. Praise and worship is another weapon in
Speaker 1: seasons of discouragement. How we feel like crying, we can
Speaker 1: choose to sing. When our hearts are heavy, we lift
Speaker 1: up our voices in praise. David often turns his pain
Speaker 1: into psalms and songs and worship. His focus shifted from
Speaker 1: the problems rather to God's greatness. Worship aligns our perspective
Speaker 1: and brings God's presence into our situation. As we do
Speaker 1: these things, we are reminded that no situation is beyond redemption,
Speaker 1: no matter how much the devil tries, No matter how
Speaker 1: dire our situations may be, it is not impossible with God.
Speaker 1: This is a powerful testimony that God can take the
Speaker 1: brooken situations and turn them into praise. Beloved, Discouragement may come,
Speaker 1: but it does not have to stee Strengthen yourself in
Speaker 1: the Lord. Remember his faithfulness, refuse the lives of the enemy.
Speaker 1: Choose hope even when it is hard. As you do,
Speaker 1: it will discover that God is able to carry you
Speaker 1: through every storm and bring you into a place of victory.
Speaker 1: A man, let us take our memory verse for today
Speaker 1: from Lamentations Chapter three, the verse twenty four. The Lord
Speaker 1: is my portion, sees my soul. Therefore I hope in him.
Speaker 1: The Lord is my portion, says my soul. Therefore I
Speaker 1: hope in him. A man, let us pray, Father, we
Speaker 1: thank you for a wedding season. Thank you that we
Speaker 1: can trust that your presence will be with us even
Speaker 1: in the most difficult times, even when we are discouraged.
Speaker 1: Help us to always praise you and worship you, and
Speaker 1: continue trusting in your providence over our lives in Jesus
Speaker 1: name a Man God. Bless you for connecting and listening
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Speaker 1: Shalon and have a blessed day. A Man m