Is Your Heart Pressed Down With Discouragement?

CHASING AWAY DISCOURAGEMENT & DESPAIR

Discouragement, when left to run its' course, often leads to despair. Despair keeps us from realizing our position in Christ, keeps us from realizing His love and care for us, renders us ineffective, robs us of hope, which is essential to our mental, spiritual and physical well-being. These verses that follow, when taken to heart and applied, can encourage us again, and renew our hope.

Is Your Heart Pressed Down With Discouragement?

2 Corinthians. 4:15-18 All things are for your sakes, that the grace, which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God. Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For monetary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Psalm 55:22 Cast your burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.

Psalm 25:16-18, 20 Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses. Look upon my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins. Guard my soul and deliver me; Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in Thee.

Psalm 34:4,6-7,15,17-19,22 I sought the Lord and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. This poor man cried and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and rescues them. The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry. The righteous cry and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. The Lord redeems the soul of His servants; and none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned.