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 [...]

Got something today that was a little bit of a mind shift for me, reading about the story of Hannah when she was unable to conceive and her rival Peninnah would provoke her every day. In 1 Samuel, chapter 1, it says she would refuse to eat, and her [...]

This is an excerpt from: Delayed Praise You can be free, but not by this Friday. You can be healed from a broken heart, but not in the next hour, not by the time I say, "Amen". So, if the Devil can't trick you into thinking it's [...]

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 Did you notice how he said in verse 9, "Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged"? I love that sermon I did a few weeks ago where I had Graham come up here and put his forearm on my neck. I was [...]

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 [...]

Do you find yourself struggling with disappointment and difficulty and hardship and trying to express what you're really feeling on the inside? And somehow you just feel that there's this cloud of discouragement that seems to hang over you [...]

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 [...]

This is a principle. We would say, "You get out of it what you put into it". That's why I'm always interested when someone says, "Well, I went to the church, but I didn't get anything out of it". I would always ask [...]

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. [...]

It's about to get good, because Paul is about to let us in on a principle that explains why some of us are struggling with discouragement, and even though we pray about it, we don't seem to receive what we need from the Lord. Let's [...]

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. [...]

All right. Well let's all grab our Bibles. And we're going to really use our Bible today so get one close, pull that app up on your phone or your tablet, device or share with a friend if you don't have a Bible with you. We're [...]

Are you discouraged? Do you know why? What's going on in your life that would cause you to be depressed, lost hope, don't see anything in your future whatsoever? What's going on inside of you? What causes you to be distressed? What [...]