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ARE YOU DISCOURAGED?

                           ARE YOU DISCOURAGED?
 Discouragement is an act of being discouraged. To be discouraged is to extinct courage, it means to be dishearten, and it means to be depressed in the spirit. When you are discouraged, you will lose confidence. Discouragement is not meant for us as children of GOD. We are to encourage ourselves in the lord, just like David did when h lost everything after the battle. Job was discouraged, he was depressed, he encouraged himself hoping in GOD. There are circumstances and there are situations that you might think will overcome you, many a time we find ourselves in situations we think will overcome us,  it’s a capital NO! Have you come across what David said in Psalms: Why art thou cast down oh my soul? Why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in GOD; for I shall yet praise him, for the help of his countenance. We are to hope in GOD, casting down your soul won’t bring the solution, been discouraged won’t bring the solution either. You are to encourage yourself in the Lord hoping and trusting him; because he is the present help in time of needs. I once was discouraged and the circumstances was gradually weighing me down, I was led to this verse Psalms 42 and I encouraged myself saying a word of prayer with the words in Psalms 42; I had a happy ending and was filled with joy at the end. GOD is our father, he knows all things, his thoughts are not ours, neither are his ways ours; he has not forgotten you; he still remains GOD no matter what you are passing through. That is why brother and sister’s we have to encourage ourselves in the Lord so as to yet praise him, no matter any situation or circumstance that comes our way.

         Finally, no matter what you are facing, it has been faced by a lot of people in the past, you either encourage yourself in GOD; hoping he helps you overcome or discourage yourself and be weighed down by the circumstance which leads to you being a loser. We are not losers, we are overcomes; because we are more than a conqueror, only if we encourage ourselves in the LORD. Tell somebody today, in any circumstances encourage yourself in the Lord! It is well with us……..  

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