A Sure Pathway To Living An Overcoming Christian Life.
Bible Passage – Joshua 1:1-9 | 1 Sam 17:32-37 | I Sam 30:1-20 | 1 Kgs 19:1-18
DISCOURAGEMENT – A DANGEROUS ENEMY OF THE BELIEVER
Eight (8) Practical Routes To Discouragement – You Should Be AWARE OF AND AVOID: 1 Cor 10:12-13 | Lk 8:1
Discouragement do not come with a bang or all of a sudden. It comes gradually. Discouragement is a location, place and a habitat. There is a road to discouragement. It can be called the Valley of Discouragement.
It welcomes and onboard people as if you are newly employment in an organisation that you need to acculturate into.
Discouragement is also a form of trap and a snare – Ps 124:7-8 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. Ps 91:3
Holes are dug and the holes become trenches to suck into discouragement.
Comes like – Little Foxes That Give Room or Open The Door to Big Discouragements – Song of Songs 2:15
8 Routes of Discouragement To Know and Avoid
1. Loss of interest Reading the Bible – Joshua 1:8 | Heb 12:4 | 2 Tim 3:16-17
2. Prayerlessness – pray without ceasing, even when things look rosy – 1 Thess 1:16-18 | 2 Chron 7:14 | 1 Thess 5:16-18
3. Unbiblical Prayers; – pray the perfect will of the Father – Matt 6:10 | 1 Jh 5:14-15 | James 4:3
4. Lack of Fellowship; – not forsaking the assembling – Heb 10:25
5. Lack of Worship The Lord Wants (not entertainment or pleasure) – Jh 4:23-24-
6. No Vision, Purpose or Goal – personal for all areas of life: Prov 29:18
7. A Very Negatively Critical Spirit and Attitude – 2 Sam 6:20-23 | Dan 1:8 | Prov 20:18
8. Anxiety, Doubt and Lack of Faith – Phil 4:6 | Heb 11:1 | Phil 1:6 | Rom 4:19
CONCLUSION
Do Not Be Wearied: Hebrews 12:3 | Galatians 6:9 | 2 Thessalonians 3:13
But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
