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connection why don’t you call somebody

if you’re discouraged and encourage them

why don’t you check up on somebody why

don’t you hug somebody why don’t you

take somebody out for lunch why don’t

you encourage somebody and when you

share your anointing God will bring you

I want to go to numbers chapter 21

then they journeyed from Mount hor by

the way of the Red Sea to go around the

land of edom listen and the soul of the

people became very discouraged because

of the way along the way one translation

says because of the way God led them and

the people spoke against God and against

Moses why have you brought us out out of

Egypt to die in the wilderness for

there’s no food no water our solos this

worthless bread so the Lord sent fiery

serpents among them and they bit the

people and many of the people of Israel

died therefore the people came to Moses

and said we have sinned they got a

revelation we have sinned for we have

spoken against the Lord and against you

pray to the Lord that he take away the

Serpent’s from us so Moses prayed for

the people then the Lord said to Moses

make a fiery Serpent and set it on a

pole and it shall be that everyone who

is bitten when he looks at it shall live

so Moses made a bronze Serpent put it on

a pole raised it up in front and so it

was if a serpent had bitten anyone when

he looked at the bronze serpent Helios I

want to talk to you for a few moments

I’ll give you my title in just a minute

but I’m focusing on the theme of the

danger the great great great great

danger of discouragement and I’m gonna

give you the remedy I’m gonna give you

the answer to it in the Christmas

classic It’s a Wonderful Life and if

you’ve not seen It’s a Wonderful Life

you will probably not go up in the

rapture amen

how many of you have ever seen that

movie It’s a Wonderful Life well in that

movie the main character is a guy by the

name of George Bailey

George Bailey is a good guy but he gets

extremely and hard time

and discouraged and even contemplates

suicide but thank God for the power of

friendship he had some friends who got

together and prayed for him and when

they prayed in the movie it touches

heaven and there is an angel who is in

charge of all the angels in heaven and

he turns to one of the lesser angels and

he says it’s time for you to earn your

wings and your sign that if you want to

earn your wings you’ll get your wings if

you succeed in this your assignment is

to go down and help George Bailey and

the inferior angel said to the superior

angel well before I go tell me what’s

wrong with George Bailey isn’t sick as

he is he got some horrible disease and

the superior angels answer is a classic

he said worse than that he is

discouraged worse than some horrible

disease

he is discouraged the devil knows that

the greatest thing he can use against

the believer is discouragement because

you’re never really defeated until

you’re defeated on the inside I believe

that we need to understand that the

people of God were discouraged the

people of God not not not The Devil’s

crown it’s possible for the people of

God to get low and get discouraged and I

just want to say that probably nobody

walked in here today when we get

discouraged we almost feel ashamed we

almost feel embarrassed we almost feel

guilty we don’t want anybody to know

that we’re discouraged I doubt when you

turn to your neighbor and said hello or

whatever they spoke up and said I’m

really discouraged today I feel like

quitting I’m thinking about just just

I’ll tell you I’m I’ve had it it’s been

nobody does that

and yet it’s almost like we ignore the

dangers of prolonged discouragement when

you understand that what really causes

discouragement is given in this text the

Bible said they were discouraged because

of the way they were discouraged because

of the way of God they were discouraged

because of the why of God they were

saying why are we in this desert why are

we going through this why are we in this

wilderness why the way of God the why of

God and then the wait the waiting on God

it’s it’s been too long if something

should have happened by now and usually

when people get discouraged it’s because

of the way that God is leading them you

thought it would be an easy way and it’s

a hard wilderness way and on top of that

the why of God when you don’t have

answers for your questions no

explanations as to why it seems

everything’s going wrong and then on top

of that you’re waiting and waiting and

waiting

this breeds discouragement

discouragement is born when we compare

ourselves with somebody else when we

begin to compare ourselves with somebody

else but let me tell you one auto caused

great joy to come to your life is if

you’d stop comparing yourself to other

people and you would just remember where

you came from and remember where you

started and remember how much God has

blessed you you’re doing more you’re

seeing more you’re achieving more but if

you start comparing yourself with

someone else you can get discouraged

because they’re doing more maybe than

you’re doing but the greatest way to get

on your feet and praise the Lord is just

think about where I came from

just think about what God started me out

as and where I am today and it’s

encouraging to not compare yourself with

others but to remember how far you’ve

come and where you started so everybody

give them a praise for that think about

that for just a moment

let let a little firecracker go off in

your soul right there I mean look at you

look at the life you’ve got look at the

house you’ve got look at the car you’ve

got look at how good God’s bless you and

you and your discouraged cost you’re

comparing yourself to somebody else

another area that causes discouragement

and this is so important is trying to

force fruit out of season

the Bible said as long as the earth

exists their seed time and harvest their

seed there’s the promise and then

there’s the promise but there’s time

between seed time notice seed time

promise you can’t ignore the time when a

woman is pregnant the doctor gives her a

due date and that’s why the scripture

said do not be weary in well-doing for

there is a season called due season and

in due season you will reap if you don’t

think so hear the word of the Lord today

many people trying to get fruit in the

season before it’s due and the important

thing is when the fullness of time had

come God sent forth his son and when the

day of Pentecost was fully come God

poured out his spirit and in John 5 it

talks about the people set around the

Pool of Bethesda waiting for listen a

certain season they knew it didn’t

happen all the time but you had to wait

for the due season of the miracle when

the angel would trouble the water and

the point is you cannot force something

to happen out of season and you have to

learn to wait but many people get

discouraged another symptom of

discouragement is the loss of vision

discouragement will make your vision

become blurry and unclear and when your

vision in life becomes blurry and

unclear and you don’t know where you’re

going and you had some kind of setback

and you feel you maybe you broke up with

somebody and you saw yourself with them

for the rest of your life and now

everything’s blurry and unclear that’s

that’s discouragement you need to

recognize it it’s a dangerous thing to

not recognize when you’re really

discouraged discouragement will cause a

loss of enthusiasm about life about God

about purpose about life in general

about everything a discouraged person is

a person who is lost passion and

enthusiasm isolation is a glaring

symptom of discouragement the devil

wants you to isolate yourself pull away

from people pull away from family pull

away from church get discouraged get

depressed cave-in emotionally and

separate isolate yourself so and women

anytime the enemy isolates you is to

devastate you when you feel least like

coming that’s the sign you need to get

here the most another symptom of

discouragement is paralysis

discouragement will freeze your actions

the paralysis of analysis you you you’re

discouraged and you’re afraid to do

anything and take any chance in any risk

that’s why when elijah got discouraged

and ran from Jezebel and went in a cave

of discouragement God came and said how

how long were you halt between two

opinions in other words you know if

you’re not careful discouragement will

halt your advancement it’ll cause you to

just not trust your own judgment and

have the courage to make the right

decision

discouragement notice this in the Bible

will affect your speech when they got

discouraged they started murmuring and

complaining and discouragement always

shows up in your talk your words will be

slurred with negativism your words will

be slurred with whining and self-pity

another symptom and sign of

discouragement is a loss of inspiration

a loss of motivation a loss of

aggression about life and get up and

when your get up and go has got up and

went your discouraged discouragement is

of the despair of wounded self-love

discouragement produces cowards

the very word discouragement means to

basically just suck the courage out roll

and drain the courage out of a person to

be discouraged as to lose all courage

you will not step out you will not risk

you will not

try discouragement will make you a

coward if you let it stay and I just

want to pause right in the middle of

this sermon because I know I’m preaching

to people by television all over the

world who are discouraged I wrote this

down I want you to let it get in your

spirit i Paul’s in the name of Jesus to

come against negativism despair

hopelessness fear despondency depression

disgust frustrations feelings of failure

thoughts of quitting thoughts of giving

up thoughts of suicide I’m here today to

tell you that God is greater than your

discouragement and I call for the power

of the name of Jesus to release new

faith new vision new hope new confidence

new determination new zeal new

enthusiasm baptize us saturate us

marinate us with courage be in Courage

now everybody shout like you believed

this book is true come on praise in a

minute

somebody up in the balcony praise him a

minute all right now listen because god

is great

he’s greater than gossip he’s got he’s

greater than haters he’s greater than

people tearing you up on Facebook we

have minimized the danger of

discouragement don’t play with it

get help there’s nothing wrong with

telling somebody I’m discouraged I’m

depressed and I can’t get out I can’t

get up

there’s no shame in it there’s nothing

wrong we’re going to a good Christian

counselor and saying help I’m never I’m

in something and I can’t I feel I just

feel like giving up reach out for help

reach out for help there’s help here

we’ve been there we’ve been there I may

need your help next week but this week I

feel I feel pretty good I could help you

somebody could help you I’ll be ashamed

to say I’m discouraged how you feeling I

don’t feel nothing I don’t feel good and

I don’t feel like the favor of God is

shining brightly on that spirit I don’t

feel that I feel like quitting I feel

like giving up you ever felt that way

did God see you through the size of your

God is determined by the size of the

thing it takes to discourage you your

God is only as big as the thing it takes

to discourage you Israel got discouraged

because they compared themselves with

their enemies not with their God I know

you can’t do it but can you God do it I

know the Giants are bigger than you are

but who said it was you against them I

thought it was your God put you God up

against them not put yourself against

measure your problem against God not

yourself we see the devastation of

discouragement in John 1 when it talks

about john the baptists and when he was

first introduced to jesus he said I saw

the spirit descend like a dove and it

abode upon him and I knew him I knew him

and then John announced behold the lamb

of God he’s it I’ve got a personal

revelation I know who he is he’s the

Lamb of God and there’s rejoicing but a

few months later he’s arrested John is

and he’s in a filthy prison of Herod’s

sale prison and he sends his disciples

to where Jesus is because he feels

abandoned he’s discouraged and he says

ask him are you the one what do you mean

am I the one you’re the one that said I

was the one but see see the danger of

discouragement discouragement will cause

you to question what you previously

affirmed about your faith in God

discouragement will begin to get you to

ask questions about did

I really see that bird descend did I did

what did that really happen did I really

hear that voice did God really confirm

to me is Jesus who he really said it’ll

cause you to question your spirit

visitation question your divine

demonstration and question your personal

revelation there are things that can

come in life listen to this preacher

that will make you wonder about that

bird was it real wonder about that

experience that you had in an altar was

that voice real make you second-guess

what you said Jesus was to you make you

question the will of God things will

come in life that will make you question

the love of God how can a loving God let

this happen

I just proclaim in the middle of my

seasons of discouragement there is no

God like Jehovah I may not see the bird

anymore I may not hear the voice anymore

I may not feel the flutter in the joy of

the Lord in this particular season that

I may be walking through but I declare

boldly there is no God like Jehovah he’s

still God I want you to see the doorway

to discourage me in Psalm 73 David found

himself so discouraged he wanted to quit

he said truly God is a good to Israel

even to as many as who have a clean

heart but catch these next words but as

for me my feet almost slipped and I

became envious he says in verse 13

envious of the wicked he’s saying

something he’s saying oh I know God will

bless Israel but I’m the exception and

I’m the rule that’s the that’s the word

I’m the exception to the rule I’m

someone that he can bless Israel and he

can bless pastor and he can bless this

one in that one but not me that’s

discouragement talking he won’t favor

him to help me he won’t bless me and he

was envious of wicked people in other

words he was saying I’m living clean I’m

living right and this is not working for

me this faith in God is not working

they’re doing better and they worship

idols

this is not working for me this is a

discouraged man the question is how did

he get there you have to back up one

verse into the previous chapter chapter

72 and verse 20 the last verse right

before you go into all that

discouragement catch this the prayers of

David the son of Jesse are ended please

hear me the door to discouragement is

prayerlessness when he said I’m done

praying I prayed all I’m gonna pray they

guess what that opened the door and he

steps into that’s next chapter and is

full of sliding and sliding back and

discouragement and and then and I’m the

exception and God’s not with me and I’m

going under and I’m not gonna make it

what I’m saying to you is that’s how you

get discouraged when you stop praying

when you stop asking when you stop

praising when you stop coming to church

isolating yourself you go deeper and

deeper into discouragement I’m so glad

you came to church today because I don’t

believe that we have to leave like we

came in Jesus name

Elisha got in a cave of discouragement

and God told him to do something he said

alright I want you to come out of this

cave of discouragement Jezebel rein you

in here Elisha and you’ve been

discouraged and you said kill me and I

feel like quitting but he said here’s

what I want you to do if you want to

come out of your cave discouragement go

anoint three people and he told him to

go in other words start sharing your

anointing if you want to be encouraged

now you got to get this if you want to

be encouraged you got to go encourage

somebody as long as you’re focused on me

and self and pity you’re not going to

get encouraged but he said I want you to

start sharing your anointing you know

what I’m no need to preach I’m anointed

to sing in play I know that and you know

what I’ve learned that when I’m

discouraged if I’ll share my anointing

if I’ll preach in those seasons when I’m

discouraged that’s when some of my best

sermons come when I sing and worse you

when I’m a little discouraged seems like

that really touches people’s hearts they

don’t know what I’m going through but

there’s something about when you are in

your own cave of discouragement you

begin to share the anointing he said he

lied you go anoint some people and too

many times we get so sinner why don’t

you call somebody if you’re discouraged

and encourage them why don’t you check

up on somebody why don’t you hug

somebody why don’t you take somebody out

to lunch

why don’t you encourage somebody and

when you share your anointing God will

bring you out here I want in with this

pray praise lift him up look up keep

looking up because the devil doesn’t

mind you celebrating and remembering

that time in your past that you made it

through and he really doesn’t mind you

believing that some time way out there

God’s gonna turn your battle I’m going

to see a victory way out there that time

some time but the thing that makes hell

nervous and the thing the enemy wants to

do that keep you that will keep you and

discourage is convince you that this

time you’re not gonna make it

this time you’re not gonna get out this

time there’s no way you’re going to

bounce back but I’ve got a message for

the devil it almost wrote it on my shoes

that time here’s a not to title my

sermon that time this time and every

time God will not fail me everybody say

that time this time and every time God

will not forget me God will not forsake

me God will not fail me now wait a

minute that time how many of you’ve got

at that time that you can look back on

this time and every time God will not

fail me God will not fail me God’s

healing you if you need help get help

but God brought you to this service this

morning to heal you of chronic

discouragement David encouraged himself

in the Lord and when you get that down

in your soul like I got it I got me a

new little thing I’m gonna tell the

devil from now on if you don’t get

nothing outside of this sermon take home

this piece that time this time and every

time

God will not fail me God will not forget

me God will not forsake me one more time

say it bold that time I need somebody to

shout over that time you know that time

when the enemy whisperer take your life

the enemy whispered there’s no recover

the enemy whispered you’ll never get

through this that divorced that whatever

that that that disaster but God said I’m

gonna see you through that time this

time somebody shout over in your very

circumstance right now he’s big and in

control and here’s the big one somebody

shout over every time the battle is the

Lord’s get up on your feet and give God

a great great praise because he

encourages his people

halleluyah halleluyah we need to take

just a minute and lift him up look up

and lift him up

stay in your discouragement if you want

to or look up and lift him up and begin

to pray and God will begin to restore

encouragement into you