livingwaters “Ray, How do you handle discouragement?” Jonathan Minga I try and shake it off through thanksgiving. Sometimes doing that is almost mechanical, because it’s not easy to give thanks in a lion’s den. It brings with it the big bad bedfellow of depression, and that sits on us like a dark and heavy cloud. To gives thanks in all things takes trust in God. It helps me to think of the makeup of the word “discouragement”: DIS-courage. You have an enemy that wants to take your courage from you. Don’t let him. Instead, trust in God and that will breed courage. Think of David in the face of a murderous Goliath. David trusted God and that produced a courage that enabled him to ran towards his gigantic problem. So if you are even discouraged, read these words out loud 60 or 70 times: “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose…Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:28, 37-39).
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