DISCOURAGEMENT AND THE CURE

Numbers 21: 4-5.

Discouragement is a tool in the hand of the devil, to bring down the children of God. The root cause of every suicide today is the enemy called Discouragement. Discouragement has no respect for title, name, or position. Discouragement, if not managed or handled well, graduates

to depression. And depression grows into hypertension and hypertension results to untimely death. That will not be your potion in Jesus Name.

Nobody is discouraged when things are going on well. Every discouragement comes because of the way things are. The Bible says “…… and the soul of the people was much discouraged BECAUSE OF THE WAY” (Num. 21:4b). Why was their soul discouraged?  Because of the WAY THINGS WERE. These are some of the things that will happen when discouragement comes. It is an enemy of the soul, so guard against. When one is discouraged, the danger is, he/she speaks against God. There is every tendencies that when you are discouraged you will speak against God. The reason is because, the spirit of discouragement will never let you see what God has done, but what He has not done. When discouraged, you see everyone around you as a suspect. You are downcast because it’s a sickness of the soul. When discouraged, you don’t appreciate yourself or your gift. And until you appreciate yourself, nobody will appreciate you. If you don’t appreciate yourself, you will depreciate.

When discouraged, you can’t hear from God. And if you cannot hear from God, you will hear from self. When discouraged, you devalue yourself and your gift. And until your gift is valuable to you, it will never be valuable to others.  When discouraged, you will find yourself angry with everyone around you without any reason to be angry. And the anger (wrath) of a man works not the righteousness of God (James 1:20). When you are discouraged, you don’t see any hope. And without hope, faith loses its power to produce. The Bible says ‘Faith is a substance of things hoped for……’ (Heb.11:1). Without hope, faith cannot work. When discouraged, you will not remember all your good days. And your good days ought to be a testimony for you in times of discouragement.

When discouraged, you forget the glorious history of the past and remember the ugly situation of the now. No wonder, Psalmist says in Psalms 103:1-2 “BLESS the LORD, oh my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the LORD, oh my soul, and forget not all His benefits. What helped David to overcome discouragement is, he remembered the MANY THINGS that God has done than the FEW THINGS He hasn’t done. (Psalms 40:5). Don’t let the present situation erase His past blessings upon your life. Everyone passes through the valley of discouragement, but what will take you up is when you remind yourself of His past blessings. We shall be looking at the cure for discouragement in our next post. I DECREE THAT EVERY PIT OF DISCOURAGEMENT YOU FIND YOURSELF, YOU ARE COMING OUT IN NOW, JESUS NAME. AMEN.