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1 Samuel 30:3-5 NASB1995
1 Samuel 30:6 NASB1995
Three Reasons why People Become Discouraged
1. Illusions and Naïve Expectations
Becoming disillusioned can be painful, but it can’t defeat you. Disillusionment is a gift so that you can go on without illusions and succeed.
God will take you on a journey from illusions, through disillusionment, into achievement and maturity.
Three Reasons why People Become Discouraged
1. Illusions and Naïve Expectations
2. Delays and Setbacks
Proverbs 13:12 NASB1995
Three Reasons why People Become Discouraged
1. Illusions and Naïve Expectations
2. Delays and Setbacks
3. Losing sight of or losing faith in your goals.
Hebrews 12:2b
“…who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Jeremiah 29:11 NASB1995
Four Steps to Overcoming Discouragement
1. If necessary, face and deal with spiritual problems
Four Steps to Overcoming Discouragement
1. If necessary, face and deal with spiritual problems
2. Focus on today and don’t let worries of the future weigh you down.
Matthew 6:26-27, 34 NASB1995
Four Steps to Overcoming Discouragement
1. If necessary, face and deal with spiritual problems
2. Focus on today and don’t let worries of the future weigh you down.
3. Examine your goals. Are you focused on the right things?
Philippians 3:13b-14
One thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Four Steps to Overcoming Discouragement
1. If necessary, face and deal with spiritual problems
2. Focus on today and don’t let worries of the future weigh you down.
3. Examine your goals. Are you focused on the right things?
4. Make sure that your spiritual life is the foundation on which you are building.
The devil’s main job is not to tempt people to do wrong. It is to discourage and distract people from doing right.
1 Samuel 30:6 NASB1995
Psalms 42:5 NASB1995
1 Corinthians 2:9 NASB1995