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Speaker 4: I hope you enjoy this message. I was talking to
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Speaker 4: began to dwell on these thoughts, and I became more discouraged.
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Speaker 4: She says. As I began to listen and listen to
Speaker 4: the messages, I began to regain a sense of who
Speaker 4: I was. She said, I began to become encouraged again.
Speaker 4: She said, this that I thought was so good. She said,
Speaker 4: I realized what I had been doing was I had
Speaker 4: been so focused and so attentive to what had happened
Speaker 4: to me that I wasn't understanding what was happening in me.
Speaker 4: She said, I had been so hurt, I had been
Speaker 4: so discredited, I felt so all alone, and what was
Speaker 4: happening to me was causing what was happening in me
Speaker 4: to totally destroy my life. She said. I didn't want
Speaker 4: to do anything, she said, and as I became encouraged,
Speaker 4: she said, that discouragement left in home rose. She said.
Speaker 4: I literally got to the place where I could look
Speaker 4: myself in the mirror and like myself again.
Speaker 3: She said.
Speaker 4: Little by little, she said, I'd get up in the
Speaker 4: morning and I would look in the mirror and she
Speaker 4: would say, you were beautiful, you are talented, you are valuable.
Speaker 4: She said, I begin to have this fun person come
Speaker 4: back into my life, the person I really was. And
Speaker 4: she said, I got so excited. I got it. I
Speaker 4: got encouraged to get up in the morning and look
Speaker 4: at myself and tell myself how well I was doing.
Speaker 4: You see. I love that, She added this, And I
Speaker 4: can't leave this out, she said, And I would say
Speaker 4: to myself, God is going to bring the right person
Speaker 4: across my path because I'm in the palm of his hand.
Speaker 4: I love the fact that she did something about her discouragement.
Speaker 4: She made a choice. She took what she received on
Speaker 4: the inside, the encouragement she got from the ministry, and
Speaker 4: she began to encourage herself. It says in Exodus six
Speaker 4: that when Moses was going to leave the children of
Speaker 4: Israel out of captivity, which God had promised, what happened
Speaker 4: when he went to them to tell them that this
Speaker 4: was their time. This was the moment that God was
Speaker 4: going to cause them to leave this burden of this joke,
Speaker 4: this bondage that they had been under. The scripture says this.
Speaker 4: It says that they were too discouraged to believe. They
Speaker 4: had been under so much discouragement that they couldn't even
Speaker 4: believe that what God could do for them. You know,
Speaker 4: that's a sad statement, too discouraged to believe. But I'll
Speaker 4: tell you what it shows me. It shows me the
Speaker 4: power of discouragement in our life. It shows me that
Speaker 4: when we become discouraged, we can't even get the faith
Speaker 4: to believe that God can take us to the places
Speaker 4: we need to go, to take us over a challenge,
Speaker 4: through an obstacle. You see, discouragement is heaped on us
Speaker 4: and we can't see. You know, it's very interesting because
Speaker 4: the young girl that I talked about, when she began
Speaker 4: to encourage herself, when she began to take this encouragement
Speaker 4: that she had on the inside and encourage herself. You know,
Speaker 4: nothing had changed on the outside. That man didn't come
Speaker 4: back to her life, but everything had changed on the inside.
Speaker 4: And when hope rises in your heart, faith causes you
Speaker 4: to act. Faith causes you to move forward. The scripture
Speaker 4: tells us that David, the mighty man of God, who
Speaker 4: faced challenge after challenge, learned this secret. He encouraged himself
Speaker 4: in the Lord. You see, David had a warrior's mentality.
Speaker 4: He took this place inside of him that he had
Speaker 4: built up, this place where he had encouraged himself in
Speaker 4: the things of God, and he was able to take
Speaker 4: that war chest and encourage himself on the things on
Speaker 4: the outside. He was able to look at the face
Speaker 4: of discouragement and say, you know, my God can supply
Speaker 4: all of my needs. My God can get me through this.
Speaker 4: You see, at one point in David's life, everybody had
Speaker 4: turned against him. Even the men that were fighting battles
Speaker 4: with him were so down and discouraged that They turned
Speaker 4: to David and they said, we want to stone you.
Speaker 4: They were looking for someone to blame for the difficulties
Speaker 4: that they were facing. David had no one around him
Speaker 4: that could encourage him, yet he encouraged himself in the
Speaker 4: Lord his God. You know, it's great when your family
Speaker 4: is there to encourage you, when your friends are there
Speaker 4: to encourage you. But what happens when no one's there
Speaker 4: to encourage you? You know what I believe. I believe
Speaker 4: we shouldn't depend on other people to encourage us. I
Speaker 4: believe our main source of encouragement should come right from
Speaker 4: the inside of us.
Speaker 6: See.
Speaker 4: I can't even imagine my husband trying to encourage me
Speaker 4: every time I'm discouraged. You know what if I went
Speaker 4: to Joel every time that I was discouraged, probably lock
Speaker 4: himself in a closet and not come out. You See,
Speaker 4: we've got to learn to encourage ourself every day. We've
Speaker 4: got to remember what God has done in our life.
Speaker 4: We have to understand that we have to get in
Speaker 4: agreement with God. See, you are made in the image
Speaker 4: of Almighty God. God created you and he made you.
Speaker 4: And if you believe that about your life, then when
Speaker 4: you criticize yourself, you might as well be criticizing your creator,
Speaker 4: the one who made you.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 4: See, if you can criticize his creation, then what you're
Speaker 4: doing is criticizing the creator because he made you, He
Speaker 4: formed you, he fashioned you, just the way you should be. See,
Speaker 4: when you encourage yourself, what you're doing is you're saying,
Speaker 4: thank you God for who you made me to be.
Speaker 4: Thank you God that you've made me to be more
Speaker 4: than a cauquer in Christ Jesus. But I'm an overcomer
Speaker 4: because you've backed me up, because I have your word
Speaker 4: in me. See it's so easy sometimes to see the
Speaker 4: good qualities in other people yet ignore the good qualities
Speaker 4: in our self. But I believe that we need to
Speaker 4: see the good things in ourself, and we need to
Speaker 4: applaud even the smallest accomplishments. You know, maybe you feel
Speaker 4: like you're a procrastinator and there's been a project that
Speaker 4: you've been putting off. Well, when you begin to start
Speaker 4: that project, even if you don't finish it, applaud yourself.
Speaker 4: You know, what about that diet you've been trying to
Speaker 4: stay on? Listen, when you have a good day, applaud yourself.
Speaker 4: What about the addiction that you're overcoming when you see
Speaker 4: yourself trying listen, crown your own efforts with the success,
Speaker 4: applaud yourself. You see, we've got to learn to applaud
Speaker 4: even the smallest accomplishments in our life. When we applaud ourself,
Speaker 4: you know what we're doing. We're not being boastful, we're
Speaker 4: not being egotistical and prideful. We're building confidence and faith
Speaker 4: in ourself. Too often we see what we're doing wrong
Speaker 4: and not what we're doing right. We see all the
Speaker 4: times we blew it. But I want to tell you something.
Speaker 4: Don't go around looking at all the times you blew it.
Speaker 4: Applaud yourself for all the things you've done well by
Speaker 4: yourself some flowers. Celebrate yourself. You've been made in the
Speaker 4: image of God. You've got to understand when you celebrate yourself,
Speaker 4: you're celebrating God on the inside of you. See, it's
Speaker 4: so important that we do this. You know, life doesn't
Speaker 4: always turn out the way we planned. And maybe today
Speaker 4: you can say, well, not everything has gone my way.
Speaker 4: But can I encourage you with this? You're still here,
Speaker 4: You're still full of purpose, you're still full of value.
Speaker 4: You can still get to where God wants you to be.
Speaker 4: You can't live negative and expect to have a positive
Speaker 4: life and dwell on everything that you can't do, and
Speaker 4: expect to go out with strength and courage to do it.
Speaker 4: You see, we're all in the process. That is the truth.
Speaker 4: Every one of us in here is in a certain
Speaker 4: area of our life in process to the coming, and
Speaker 4: it's up to us to stay encouraged along the way.
Speaker 4: I'll never forget the time we were in another state
Speaker 4: and my husband was on a book tour and we
Speaker 4: had done an interview with this journalist, and I'll never
Speaker 4: forget he got in the car. We all piled in
Speaker 4: the car and he sat there for a second and
Speaker 4: he said, you know what, I did a good job,
Speaker 4: he said. I did everything that I knew to do.
Speaker 4: I said what I knew to say, he said, And
Speaker 4: I just feel good about what I did today. I
Speaker 4: did the very best that I could. And we had
Speaker 4: a friend with us, and a little later he said, Choel,
Speaker 4: you know when you affirmed yourself after that important interview,
Speaker 4: he said, it reminded me of how negative I am
Speaker 4: towards my own self. He said, I thought about what
Speaker 4: if that was me that just came out of that interview.
Speaker 4: He said, I would have probably had a mindful of doubt.
Speaker 4: I would have probably thought I didn't say the right
Speaker 4: thing and I didn't do the right thing. But when
Speaker 4: you had the boldness and the courage to affirm yourself,
Speaker 4: he said, it was such a freedom for me. It
Speaker 4: made me realize that I can affirm myself. Because See,
Speaker 4: the truth is, we can only do the best that
Speaker 4: we can do today. And if we'll do the best
Speaker 4: we can do today, whether it was the best or not,
Speaker 4: we'll be more equipped to do better tomorrow. You See,
Speaker 4: my husband is one of the greatest encouragers that I
Speaker 4: think I've ever seen. He's encouraged people all over the world,
Speaker 4: and I believe one of the greatest secrets to his
Speaker 4: encouragement is the fact that he knows how to encourage himself.
Speaker 4: He practices finding the best in himself. See, when you're
Speaker 4: full of good things, it's interesting how you see through
Speaker 4: that lens of good things. Then you're able to see
Speaker 4: the best in others to affirm and encourage other people.
Speaker 4: So you can't give away what you don't have. If
Speaker 4: you've got a full tank, then you can give encouragement
Speaker 4: and love to one another. Listen, I believe I'm looking
Speaker 4: at people who have decided they're going to practice looking
Speaker 4: in the mirror and deciding who they really are. I
Speaker 4: believe I'm looking at people who are going to affirm themselves.
Speaker 4: They're going to watch the negative talk and the negative
Speaker 4: thoughts that are going on in their mind. And I
Speaker 4: believe that as we get up every day and we
Speaker 4: say who God says we are, and we reflect the
Speaker 4: image of Almighty God, that we'll be able to go
Speaker 4: out and be encouragers where we go. Amen. Amen, He've
Speaker 4: been awesome.
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