Three Strikes against Discouragement!

Are you discouraged today?

It takes no super discernment for me to say that you are not alone in that discouragement.

We all face it at one time or another.

The bigger question is what are you going to do about it?

Here’s how one hero of the faith handled it –

“When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep. David’s two wives had been captured...David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the Lord his God.”

Talk about some troubling circumstances!

We are not told specifically how David “...found strength in the Lord His God.” but let me suggest to you some strong possibilities that are great antidotes to discouragement and defeat.

First, David may have spoken aloud to himself the promises of God as we wrote of in an earlier post.

Second, David spent time in worship and praise acknowledging that the only one who could deliver them was the God of Wonders.

Third and final, David may have rehearsed in his mind the many times God had faithfully delivered him in the past – maybe he recounted the story of a certain Philistine giant that fell at David’s feet through the delivering hand of God.

So you see, it’s one, two, three strikes and discouragement is out!

Finding yourself discouraged?

Encourage yourself in the Lord!!