God does not place us on the planet without purpose; He has a divine design for each of us. But as we seek to follow His direction, difficulties confront us. Joshua teaches us how to overcome the obstacles that would keep us from following the will of God for our lives. We overcome obstacles through communication (vv. Overcoming Satan By The Blood Of The Lamb By Carrie Judd Montgomery In Revelation 12:10 we read of the accuser of the brethren being cast down, and in the next verse we read how Satan was overcome: 'And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.'
Overcoming Discouragement
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Face your problems relying on God.
Life is hard. Life is a battle. Saint Paul says we struggle in life, not just against the world and the flesh, but against invisible powers that struggle against us to keep us from becoming all that God wants us to become. It is very important that we face the hardness of life straightforwardly. So today I want to talk to you about the overcoming life in regard to the Christian and discouragement.
It was advertised that the Devil was putting up for sale all of his tools. On that date the tools were laid out. They had prices marked on them for public inspection, and there were a lot of treacherous instruments: hatred, envy, jealousy, deceit, pride, lying, and so on. Laid apart from the rest of the Devil's tools was a tool, but it was worn more than any of the others and was priced very high. 'What's the name of this tool?' asked one of the customers.
'That,' the Devil replied, 'is discouragement.'
'Why have you priced it so high?'
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'Because discouragement is more useful to me than all the others. I can pry open and get inside a man's heart with that when I cannot get near him with any other tools. It's badly worn because I use it on almost everyone, since so few people know it belongs to me.'
Discouragement is still the Devil's tool. Not many people realize he's using it on us, and he's using it on some of us today. Life is full of discouraging circumstances. Even the most blessed people, the most successful, the most spiritually mature, face constant disappointment and discouragement. The aim of my sharing this with you today is that you would honestly face the problems served up to you in life without fooling yourself, without giving up, but rather by acknowledging the problems and discouragement, by acknowledging ...
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- Denial;
- Despair;
- Difficulty;
- Discouragement;
- Overcoming;
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