Learn To Move

Deut.31:8 “Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; he will neither fail you nor abandon you.”

Most of us are discouraged far more than we would like to be. We know that discouragement is part of life, but we find that we are discouraged far more than we would love to be. Many things make us discouraged so my question to you today is, what makes you easily discouraged? I want you to write the answer down. Is it work, or unanswered prayers, or school, or is it a football club? What is it? Is it your spouse, or your children or lack of children? Please write it down. There are two main things I want us to learn to do with discouragement. If we learn to do these two things with discouragement, we can limit and overpower discouragement in our lives. We can also ensure that because we have diffused discouragement, we are not often in that place where we are tempted to say, ‘I might as well’. Not being in that place often means being strong, right? When you are often strong, it means you can fulfil your destiny easily. It is so important that we get these two things.

The first one is, I must learn from discouragement. You must learn from discouragement. One big thing about God’s Favourite House that I am grateful to God for is the heart of worship. Which obviously leads to the manifest presence of God that is in God’s Favourite House. Another thing that I am grateful for is, the heart to learn, the atmosphere for consistent learning. And we should not take it for granted. A lot of us are great learners. And if you are reading this today, it means these two attributes are in you – the heart to worship and the heart to learn. We have to learn from discouragement. If we do not learn from discouragement, it gets deeper, then it gets darker, then it comes more often and inevitably leads to defeat. 

I usually would use sports as an illustration, but this applies to all areas of life. For instance, you are playing a game of tennis and you served out twice. Meaning you double-faulted, so you lose a point which leaves you discouraged. However, if you do not learn from it; what did you do wrong, how you got it wrong, what you should adjust. If you do not learn from it and move on, what happens is, it gets deeper, it gets darker, you repeat it more often and it leads to defeat. That is just how it is. In any sport, once you get discouraged, if you do not learn from it, you are going to repeat it. If you do not learn from it, you are going to keep kicking yourself.

Prayer: Father, I will not be afraid or discouraged because You have personally gone ahead of me, You are with me and You will not fail or abandon me, in Jesus Name. Amen!