Are you discouraged? Are you feeling bad and bad? Wondering why you should bother to keep living the Christian life, especially if it seems like a failure?
Who has not ever felt useless? Who has not become impatient with himself and has felt sick because of his lack of spiritual progress? (Luke 8:15). YOU’RE NOT ALONE! We all go through those valleys of the shadow of death. But take heart: the road must lead again soon! “Why are you downcast, my soul? And why are you troubled within me? Wait on God, for I will still praise him, who is the health of my face and my God” (Ps. 42:11).
Who would encourage you to quit smoking? Would Christ want you to surrender? The one who DIED for you? Would God pressure you to give up? Too many have never realized the ferocious beast and enemy that we must face. Even those who have not rejected the devil as superstition have not understood how dangerous it really is to our health and well-being. God picks up the pieces of lives that have been savagely torn and shattered and left for dead by sin (Isaiah 49: 24-25; Amos 3:12).
Satan foams at the mouth against our incredible human potential and wants to finish us off as a sniper, one at a time. He hates all mankind with a jealous rage (because we were created after the divine species), but he especially addresses the brethren (1 Pet. 5: 8-11).
The devil can take some things that are true about you and twist them out of context and out of proportion to DESTROY your will to survive. He never stops speaking ill of us because he is a MURDERER AND LIAR OF MURDER CHARACTER! (John 8:44; Revelation 12:10). objective don’t let the powers of darkness overcome your will to live in the light. Do not accept the depressed mind of Satan. Don’t fall prey to your desperate attitude of defeat. He has no right to condemn (Rom. 8: 1,33).
King David was discouraged, but ended his prayers on a positive note, showing the healing effect of God’s Spirit on our minds as we engaged in HEART PRAYER. “I had passed out, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait on the LORD; be strong, and he will strengthen your heart; wait, I say, in the LORD “(Ps. 27: 13-14). David believed in the goodness of God, hoped in His mercy, and waited for His sufficient grace, whether grace to forgive or empower (2 Corinthians 12: 9) .
God will give us grace to bear the many burdens of life (Hebrews 4:16). His Holy Spirit enables us to be gracious, full of grace, even in adverse circumstances. U.S Live and learn through a variety of situations to be kind in word and deed, attitude and action. David knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that “The LORD will give power to his people; the LORD will bless his people with power” (Ps. 29:11). So, “Take courage, and he will strengthen your heart, all who hope in the LORD” (Ps. 31:24).
Even if you have been carried away, your sins have alienated you from God and Satan is holding you captive (2 Tim. 2:26; 1 Cor. 5: 5), remember God and He will remember you. It is not that she has ever forgotten you: “But Zion said: The LORD has forsaken me, and the LORD has forgotten me. Can a woman forget her child at her breast, lest she have compassion on the child of her womb? but I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me “(Isaiah 49: 14-16). God’s love for us goes far beyond our love for him. He demonstrated this when Jesus’ palms had stakes through them (Zechariah 13: 6).
Some have been foolishly deceived by sin and recklessly entangled – caught in a danger zone – but as long as they don’t give up, they CAN overcome what has actually overcome them (Heb. 3:13; 2 Peter 2:20 ). Only those who have completely turned their backs on God, who refuse to stand up when they are knocked down in the ring, will lose the victory.
And yet, in spite of all this (in spite of ourselves), when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I hate them, to destroy them completely and break my covenant with them; for I am the LORD your God ”(Lev. 26:44).
God promises to release, gather, and restore. He will free us from those sins that have cruelly withheld our time and attention, gather our spiritual senses, as Satan’s psychological warfare left us in a basket and left us brain scattered (Luke 22: 31-32; Deuteronomy 28: 66). -67) – and restore us to sanity and a correct relationship with Him (where we belong), including “If any of yours is cast to the ends of heaven, from there the LORD your God will pick you up, and from there He will bring you “(Deut. 30: 3-4). No matter how far you’ve strayed, God has not lost sight of you. “Where can I go from your Spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?” (Ps. 139: 7).
If you start crying out to God for help, even if it’s just a groan because you are so weak, He will see, hear, and respond. “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the contrite in spirit … none of those who trust in him will be desolate” (Ps. 34: 18,22). “For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit will faint before me, and the souls that I have made … I have seen his ways and I will heal him; I will also guide him, and restore comfort to him and his mourners” (Isa. 57: 15-18).
God sees what trouble we have gotten into and where our relapse into sin has dangerously deceived us and left us stranded, leading us almost to the point of no return, but NOTHING can separate you from God’s love unless you allow it (Rom 8:35). – 39). As long as there is a spark of the Spirit of God, God can renovate our minds and transform our lives (Ps. 51:10). God will finish what He started in our lives (Philip 1: 6; Isaiah 66: 9). Never forget that we worship a GOD WHO WORKS MIRACLES!
Remember that the prodigal son was still distant from his father, their relationship broke up, but when he “recovered” and headed home, even when he was still a great away – “his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, fell on his neck, and kissed him” (Luke 15:17, 20).
God knows where you are and in what direction you are heading in your heart and mind, even if your actions have not reached your attitude yet! God knows they will eventually. “Because he remembers our body (makeup); he remembers that we are dust” (Ps.103: 14). God wants to encourage us to change, not discourage us from even trying (2 Cor. 2: 7).
Constructive criticism, not destructive. I judge with mercy. God helps, but Satan hinders progress, but we CONTINUING CONQUEST, one step at a time (1 Thess. 2:18; 2 Pet. 3:18). God gave David the Kingdom, but he had to fight for it! So do we (Matt. 11:12; I Tim. 6:12). Otherwise, we would take it for granted. Keep fighting (Luke 13:24). All the things you believe in are worth fighting for. Growth comes in stages. We must patiently let our trials run their course and create the character of God within us (Heb. 12:11; James 1: 4).
Satan wants to put out your light (I Tim. 4:16). He hates the sacred embers of the Spirit of God, the light and truth that we hold and represent, as a royal priesthood (1 Pet. 2: 9; John 17:17; Exodus 27:20). God does not kick us when we are down, but rather encourages us to GET UP AND OVER HIM and move on with His work (Ps. 37:24; Philip 3:13). When your faith falters and your confidence is shaky, Christ will not quench you, but He will. add more oil so that we can rise up and shine (Isaiah 42: 3). “For God has not appointed us to anger, but to OBTAIN SALVATION … Therefore comfort one another and build up one another, as you also” (1 Thess. 5: 9-11).
“Because God praises his love for us, in that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us … Because if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life … by whom we have received the atonement “(Rom. 8-11).
If God can express such love for us when we were not even trying to lead a Christian life that pleased Him, how much more now that we are trying, even if imperfectly? Do we not suffer because we are hungry and thirsty for justice? Brothers appreciate your holy suffering! You are working on a PURPOSE in your life that will last for eternity! Bread cultivation hurts.
We are to love God even more when we glimpse His mercy and patience toward us. His goodness should prompt us to want to draw closer to Him and do what we can to show how much we appreciate His tender love (Rom. 2: 4; Luke 7:47). Nothing should come between our relationship with our Creator God! If God rescued our ancestors over and over again, when they cried out to Him, how much more Will it save us from the lake of fire? (Jude 23:24).
God can save us from sinful situations and restore us to His priesthood promise (Zech. 3). We can be “a brand plucked out of the fire”, saved from the “furnace of affliction” (Isaiah 48:10). God can forcibly remind us the hard way that He is what we really want, His Kingdom fulfilled and righteousness, not the superficial things that couldn’t possibly fill the void in life (Ps. 106: 15; 107: 9) .
We must keep higher in mind the meaning and purpose of life: to develop the holy and righteous character of God in joyous anticipation of the Kingdom of God. This will help us face all the challenges that life brings us in this process of purification that we call conversion. We must remember: “You have not been tempted by any temptation other than the common [not unusual] to man: but GOD IS FAITHFUL, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond your tolerance level; but it will provide a way out of every temptation, so that you can cope with it “(1 Cor. 10:13 paraphrased).
And understand “… that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy of being compared with the GLORY that will be revealed in us” (Rom. 8:18) because Christ will soon return and every practicing Christian will be perfected. Then we will help our Savior prepare the way for our Father’s amazing arrival with NEW JERUSALEM (Revelation 21: 3).
The Kingdom of God is closer every day, so we must hold our heads high and not get discouraged, but allow ourselves to BE ENCOURAGED to move on (Isa. 35: 3; Luke 21:28). Everyone stumbles, but they don’t roll over (Ps. 37:24). Be your attitude; “I should not Die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. The LORD has punished me severely, but has not handed me over to death “(Ps. 118: 17-18). Hallelujah!
God’s forgiveness and Christ’s cleansing power remain in force (Isa. 18). God knows what we have been through and what He has been through with us, in the midst of Him, wearing His crown of thorns (Isaiah 63: 9; Genesis 22:13; Exodus 3: 2). God couldn’t get much closer (Jer. 23:23). The bottom line is: have hope and not despair; faith and not fear! After all, “… your Father likes to give you the Kingdom” (Luke 12:32).