Encourage Yourself In The Lord

If you have not been in it with Lord, how can you ever take hope from the fact that He brought through it, if you never allowed Him to leave you in it, how would you be able to celebrate the fact the by His grace you are still standing because you overcame it?

Can I get a couple of witnesses in this place who can testify I been in some stuff and but by the power of the risen Christ He brought you through it?

He brought you through a broken relationship.

He brought you through piles of debt.

He brought you through losing a loved one.

He brought you through sickness in your body.

He brought you through trouble in your mind.

He brought you through broken promises.

He brought you through shattered dreams.

Stand up right now and open your mouth and encourage yourself in the Lord and let the devil know I may be down but I am not out, because as long as I have Jesus everything will be alright.

I feel alright – because God has my back.

I feel alright – He is right by my side.

I feel alright – because He is a very present help in my time of need.

I feel alright – because greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.

I feel alright – because weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning.

I feel alright – because He is the source of my strength and the strength of my life.

When you have no one to talk to or anyone who even sound like they care what you are going through, don’t throw a pity part and give up but encourage yourself in the Lord.

2: Help is available if we ask for it

When David could not comfort himself in his wives, or his children, or his goods, or in anything under the sun, he could in something above the sun.

And the reason is at hand: God is the God of all consolation, the spring of comfort; if any water, it is in the sea; if any light, it is in the sun; if any comfort, it is in God there it rests, there it is when nowhere else.

God is all-sufficient; there the heart finds every want supplied, every good thing lodged. As God is all-sufficient to furnish us with all necessaries, so infinite in power, wisdom, and goodness to help us against all evils feared or felt.

Faith strengthens the soul by uniting it to God and making it partaker of His strength, and we are yet to fully comprehend the depth of love that God has for His children in their times of distress.

But the issue is instead of seeking Him when things go wrong we try to find solutions to things we cannot fix especially demonic attacks.

There are some things that are outside the realm of human wisdom and far deeper than our mental capabilities to fix things that have gone deeply wrong in our lives.

When we lose stuff and people we love because the enemy of our souls gains a temporal victory the worst thing we can try to do is fight him with a carnal attitude and worldly methods because they do not work.

Dr Phil cannot help us when our children are taken captive by demons who have been assigned to not only trap them but destroy them.

Oprah cannot help us when our spouses have completely lost their mind and all hell breaks loose in the home because the devil knows if he can break the family then society will be reduced to nothing.