2 Chronicles 20: 20 Early the next morning the army of Judah went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. On the way Jehoshaphat stopped and said, “Listen to me, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be able to stand firm. Believe in his prophets, and you will succeed.”
we all have things to be discouraged over...
it seems almost intentional... you know? we know that God has the power to make everything right.. to make everything easy.. but that just isn't the way things work out.. they come and go... they are up and down.. we are on a roller coaster if we are emotionally involved... now if our heart is hardened.. then the only things that discourage us are physical things.. like loss of a job.. illness.. but if our heart is soft and open.. then many things discourage us.. waiting discourages us.. things being hard discourage us if it is for an extended period of time.. people taking advantage of us..
we are not to have a hardened heart.. yet that is so much more comfortable.. it is only in caring about something that it has the power to hurt you.. to discourage you.. and the enemy plays on our feelings to make us even more discouraged.. he will remind us how good we have been.. how faithful.. how true.. and yet everything is still backwards...
how are we to know the difference between a door that God has closed.. or a situation that satan is battling us over... I don't know the answer to that.. but it would be very helpful if I did... the scripture says that as long as we stand firm we will succeed.. I am sure that is the truth.. but I am also sure that sometimes we receive things we should have walked away from... all because we kept holding on...
believe in the Lord your God and you will be able to stand firm.. believe in His prophets and you will succeed... that is pretty much all I have right now.. to hold on and believe in God... and believe I will succeed because of it..
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