DEALING WITH DISCOURAGEMENT (6 OF 11)
Scripture: Nehemiah 4:1-23
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Dealing with Discouragement (6 of 11)
Series: Nehemiah
Robert Dawson
Nehemiah 4:1-23
One day a farmer, who was a Quaker, was having trouble with his mule. He was trying to plow his field, and the mule was being unusually stubborn. He wouldn't move. So the Quaker decided to talk to him ''reasonably.'' He said, ''Thou knowest I am a Quaker. Thou knowest I can't curse thee. Thou knowest I can't whip thee. What thou does not know is that I can sell thee to my neighbor down the road. He is no Quaker, and he can beat the living daylights out of thee.''
The question is never whether we are going to face difficult, frustrating and discouraging situations but how are we going to respond to them. When they come, we need to know how to respond and how not to respond. If we have never taken the time to think through a proper response, then it is highly unlikely that we will respond properly. With we also know, that knowing the right things to do, knowing the right way to respond and having put in a good plan to follow and doing and responding the right way is something different entirely.
Nehemiah and the people are going to face opposition and discouragement, one always brings with it the other, as if the enormity of the task itself was not enough.
As we work our way through this chapter we are going to skip around a bit but we will get through most of it.
- As we follow the story I want us to discover the Anatomy of Discouragement, what does it look like, where does it come from and what are some of its symptoms.
- Not only do I want us to see the Anatomy of Discouragement but also and Antidote to Discouragement. We will discover the antidote in Nehemiah's response to all the challenges and difficulties that would come his way as he pursued the purpose for which God had called Him.
On some level, we all think that since God called us to something it should be easy, that He would pave the way, knock down the hills, straighten out the curves and smo ...
Series: Nehemiah
Robert Dawson
Nehemiah 4:1-23
One day a farmer, who was a Quaker, was having trouble with his mule. He was trying to plow his field, and the mule was being unusually stubborn. He wouldn't move. So the Quaker decided to talk to him ''reasonably.'' He said, ''Thou knowest I am a Quaker. Thou knowest I can't curse thee. Thou knowest I can't whip thee. What thou does not know is that I can sell thee to my neighbor down the road. He is no Quaker, and he can beat the living daylights out of thee.''
The question is never whether we are going to face difficult, frustrating and discouraging situations but how are we going to respond to them. When they come, we need to know how to respond and how not to respond. If we have never taken the time to think through a proper response, then it is highly unlikely that we will respond properly. With we also know, that knowing the right things to do, knowing the right way to respond and having put in a good plan to follow and doing and responding the right way is something different entirely.
Nehemiah and the people are going to face opposition and discouragement, one always brings with it the other, as if the enormity of the task itself was not enough.
As we work our way through this chapter we are going to skip around a bit but we will get through most of it.
- As we follow the story I want us to discover the Anatomy of Discouragement, what does it look like, where does it come from and what are some of its symptoms.
- Not only do I want us to see the Anatomy of Discouragement but also and Antidote to Discouragement. We will discover the antidote in Nehemiah's response to all the challenges and difficulties that would come his way as he pursued the purpose for which God had called Him.
On some level, we all think that since God called us to something it should be easy, that He would pave the way, knock down the hills, straighten out the curves and smo ...
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