Summary Rick Warren shares how discouragement hits hardest at the halfway point of life’s marathon, using Nehemiah chapter 4 to highlight four common causes: fatigue, frustration from rubble, feelings of failure, and fear from threats. He explains [...]

Courage for the Discouraged All right, Jeremiah chapter 45 is where we are for today, and I’m going to read the entire chapter. But don’t worry—if you’re there, you’ll notice it’s only five verses. So here we go. Jeremiah 45, verse 1: This is what [...]

It’s not that we pretend those things never happened or that they never existed; it’s that we bring them into the relationship with the Lord so He can heal the place of pain and turn it into a place of strength. Every loss is supposed to be a place [...]

In this powerful message from Nehemiah 4, Pastor Adrian Rogers shows how Satan uses discouragement to stop God's work. When the people rose to rebuild Jerusalem's walls, enemies conspired, fatigue set in, rubbish weighed them down, fear [...]

In Zechariah 1, after 70 years of Babylonian captivity and destruction, God declares He is returning to Jerusalem with mercy, promising to rebuild His house and stretch a measuring line over the city, with prosperity causing His cities to spread [...]

I think most of us can testify, I know I can, that the times of discouragement and the times of disappointment and the times when we get down in the dumps are the times when we have taken our eyes off of Jesus. I have. In fact, I remember back when [...]

Hindsight is the ability to see things clearly after they happen, to see things clearly after they happen. Now, it's the opposite of foresight, because foresight is the ability to see things before they happen. Just about all of us are good at [...]

Have you ever experienced, or witnessed somebody else experience, something that you immediately stopped and said, "This is totally and truly unfair. This is pure injustice. This is a blatant lie". What compounds the problem is that [...]

Perhaps I have not seen this level of discouragement among God's people, and I know there's a lot to be discouraged about. Continuous discouragement can sap your energy. Continuous discouragement causes loss of hope. Continuous [...]

Yeah, I think we face a challenge in the church. I think we've really imagined that maturing in the Lord is not particularly a pleasant thing. We're not even certain it's a good thing. So we're kind of reluctant to mature in the [...]

Really, lessons in overcoming. How do we learn to overcome? And my imagination, my hope is this: that we will either add a new tool to your spiritual toolbox, or that you will gain in your dexterity and your use of the tool. Because overcoming is a [...]

Prioritize first things first. This is the real foundation. We mess up, we have problems, because you don't know how to prioritize things first. There is a Chinese saying called "Look at the importance". Do you know this? You have to [...]

Thank you for tuning in today. My name is Frankie Mazzapica. The title of the message is "Do Not Be Discouraged". Do not be discouraged. It is so easy to have a goal and then look at your life and say, "I am so behind of what I'm [...]

Hello, my name is Frankie Mazzapica, the title of the message today is "A Message For Those Who Are Discouraged," "A Message For Those Who Are Discouraged". If you're not discouraged today, take notes, you'll need this [...]

Lorna Dueck : All right, Dr. Youssef. We have been learning every day from the book of Nehemiah with you. And when Nehemiah arrived to rebuild this massive wall, his enemies said, "It'll be nothing. A fox'll knock this thing [...]

In this sermon on Psalm 42, Pastor Adrian Rogers addresses the deep struggle of depression, showing how even King David felt utterly cast down yet spoke truth to his soul. Drawing from David's honest cries of spiritual dryness and despair, the [...]

The preacher explores Hannah's barrenness and anguish in 1 Samuel 1, where prolonged disappointment led to refusing food and deep distress, provoked by her rival. After Eli's assurance that God heard her prayer, Hannah ate, her face [...]

This is an excerpt from: Delayed Praise Pastor Steven Furtick teaches from Psalm 34 and David's life in "Ugly Trust," showing how the enemy uses either outright discouragement or unrealistic expectations of instant change to derail [...]

I want you to turn to 1 Kings 19. We're going to study a man today that was absolutely at the bottom of the barrel of discouragement. In fact, it's kind of surprising to see who he was. His name was Elijah, and he's known as one of [...]

This is an excerpt from: Focus Your Faith In this message drawing from Joshua 1:9, Pastor Furtick explains that God's command to "be strong and courageous" and "do not be afraid; do not be discouraged" addresses our focus [...]

I don't believe elections make us spiritually healthier or less so. I think elections reveal our spiritual health or our lack thereof. And so if we were left, whichever end of the spectrum you're on, if you were left-elated or downcast, I [...]

Dr. Stanley tackles the heavy cloud of discouragement that often follows disappointment, showing from Nehemiah how one man faced massive setbacks yet refused to stay down. By grieving honestly, praying fervently, trusting God's sovereignty, [...]

I was hoping some of you were discouraged because that's what I'm talking about today. If you're all doing fine, it's sort of waste. But message today is dealing with the subject of discouragement. More specifically, the cause or [...]

Dr. Stanley reminds us that discouragement hits everyone, but as believers we don't have to stay there—it's a choice. He points to our God as the ultimate encourager, full of mercy, power, wisdom, patience, and unchanging faithfulness, [...]

Pastor Steven Furtick unpacks 2 Corinthians 9 to flip the script on giving and receiving: you don't just get out what you put in—you reap generously when you sow generously, but God responds to needs with seeds, not instant harvests. The big [...]

It's an honor to be with you again. We're continuing our study on "Big Trouble Ahead, and the Battle with Discouragement". Folks, we are watching some things that are really unprecedented, an open Southern border and tens of [...]

It's an honor to be with you again. Our title in this session is "Big Trouble Ahead in the Battle with Discouragement". You know, we're moving through a season that's leading us towards the culmination of this age. The King [...]

Hey, why don’t you go ahead and grab your Bible and make your way to Revelation 3. We are in week six of the “Mission Killers” series. I can’t believe we are almost done. We are rounding the corner to week number seven. It’s coming up really fast. [...]

The preacher teaches from 2 Corinthians 9 that when we're discouraged and praying for breakthrough, God often gives us seed to sow instead of instant harvest. By shifting from self-focused "me" mode to generous "sow" [...]

Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress and welcome again to Pathway to Victory. We all feel sad and dejected from time to time, but for many people, discouragement becomes less of a passing feeling and more of a permanent state of mind. Today we're [...]

Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress, and welcome again to "Pathway to Victory". When a promising relationship goes nowhere, when your dream job ends in a nightmare, when the status quo refuses to budge, it's easy to become discouraged. So [...]

Shalom. Shalom, church. I always look forward to this time when I can just share the Word with all of you, and every week I want you to know that I seek the Lord to have the now-Word. And it's called the rhema Word in the Bible. You know, [...]

Key number one is a Godward mind-set, is focusing your mind toward God. And David was a master at this. Now, in the book of Psalms, there are 150 Psalms in the book of Psalms. 73 of the 150 Psalms are attributed to king David. David was a worshiper. [...]

Welcome to "The Overcoming Life". I want to talk to you today about freedom, and I want to talk you specifically about overcoming discouragement and depression. And some of you may be a little bit discouraged. And I think all of us get [...]

You may be seated. It's good to be in the house of the Lord. How many of you, like me, want to go from just knowing the promises of God to walking in to the promises of God? It's one thing to know something, it's another thing to use [...]

In this powerful message from Revelation 2, Pastor confronts the church in Thyatira about tolerating the spirit of Jezebel, which brings sexual immorality and idolatry into God's people. Jesus warns that this spirit produces [...]

Joyce Meyer shares practical ways to overcome disappointment and discouragement by refusing to stay in the "pit" of negative emotions like self-pity, fear, or anger. Using examples from Joseph, Moses, David, and Peter, she shows that God [...]

In this sermon, the preacher shares the story of a cheerful Little League boy who wasn't discouraged despite being way behind in the score, using it to introduce how the Bible addresses discouragement through words like "faint" or [...]

Defeated by division at home, David faced discouragement where mighty men lose courage—but he encouraged himself in the Lord, heard "fight back," and recovered all; men must praise God for strength, fight back against despair, and reclaim [...]

Well, praise the Lord. Just want to say again that you are in a very special place tonight. You are right where the gospel of grace went forth 2,000 years ago. Paul left this port and he never returned. He appealed to Caesar and to Caesar he went. [...]

Pastor Greg Laurie taught from Nehemiah 4–5 on "How to Handle Discouragement" in his Rebuilt Life series, using the Sutherland Springs tragedy to show faith shining in suffering. He explained Satan attacks outwardly (mockery/threats) or [...]

Dr. Charles Stanley shares how David faced utter despair when raiders burned Ziklag and took the families captive, yet he encouraged himself in the Lord his God and recovered all. Drawing from 1 Samuel 30, the message shows discouragement as a [...]