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Speaker 4: Thank you Lord, when help you at nest place and
Speaker 4: we honor you today. Amn, He's a good God. I
Speaker 4: was talking to a girl the other day who had
Speaker 4: had a breakup in her relationship, and she was so disheartened.
Speaker 4: She said that she thought this relationship was on the
Speaker 4: right track. She thought that it could even be headed
Speaker 4: towards marriage. And then one day he came to her
Speaker 4: and he said, I'm taking a job in another state. Well,
Speaker 4: she was so discouraged. She thought, what's happening. When she
Speaker 4: began to think about how he could leave so quickly,
Speaker 4: it began to demoralize her. She thought, Wow, I'm not
Speaker 4: as special as I thought I was. I guess he
Speaker 4: didn't love me like I thought he loved me. She said.
Speaker 4: I began to dwell on these thoughts, and I became
Speaker 4: more discouraged. She said. You know, I was just really
Speaker 4: just trying to make sense of it all, trying to
Speaker 4: figure it all out. What happened? What did I do?
Speaker 4: She said? I got to the place where I didn't
Speaker 4: even want to go hardly go to work. I certainly
Speaker 4: didn't want to go out with any friends. I found
Speaker 4: myself just staying at home a lot. And she said,
Speaker 4: one evening I turned on the television and I saw
Speaker 4: your ministry. She says. As I began to listen and
Speaker 4: to the messages, I began to regain a sense of
Speaker 4: who 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 along, 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 holl 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. She said, little,
Speaker 4: my little. She said. I'd get up in the morning
Speaker 4: and I would look in the mirror and she would say,
Speaker 4: you are beautiful, you are talented, you are valuable. She said,
Speaker 4: I begin to have this fun person come back into
Speaker 4: my life, the person I really was, And she said,
Speaker 4: I got so excited. I got it. I got encouraged
Speaker 4: to get up in the morning and look at myself
Speaker 4: and tell myself how well I was doing. You see,
Speaker 4: I love that, She added this, and I can't leave
Speaker 4: this out. She said, and I would say to myself,
Speaker 4: God is going to bring the right person across my
Speaker 4: path because I'm in the palm of his hand. I
Speaker 4: 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 would happen,
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. He was able to take that
Speaker 4: war chest and encourage himself on the things on the outside.
Speaker 4: He was able to look at the face of discouragement
Speaker 4: and say, no, my God can supply all of my needs.
Speaker 4: My God can get me through this. You see, at
Speaker 4: one point in David's life, everybody had turned against him.
Speaker 4: Even the men that were fighting battles with him were
Speaker 4: so down and discouraged that they turned to David and
Speaker 4: they said, we want to stone you. They were looking
Speaker 4: for someone to blame for the difficulties that they were facing.
Speaker 4: David had no one around him that could encourage him,
Speaker 4: yet he encouraged himself in the Lord his God. You know,
Speaker 4: it's great when your family is there to encourage you,
Speaker 4: when your friends are there to encourage you. But what
Speaker 4: happens when no one's there to encourage you? You know
Speaker 4: what I believe. I believe we shouldn't depend on other
Speaker 4: people to encourage us. I believe our main source of
Speaker 4: encouragement should come right from the inside of us. 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, he'd probably
Speaker 4: lock 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 may need to be more
Speaker 4: than a conquer 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 ourself. But I believe that we need to see
Speaker 4: the good things in ourself, and we need to applaud
Speaker 4: even the smallest accomplishments. You know, maybe you feel like
Speaker 4: you're a procrastinator and there's been a project that you've
Speaker 4: been putting off. Well, when you begin to start that project,
Speaker 4: even if you don't finish it, applaud yourself you know,
Speaker 4: what about that diet you've been trying to stay on. Listen,
Speaker 4: when you have a good day, applaud yourself. What about
Speaker 4: the addiction that you're overcoming When you see yourself trying listen,
Speaker 4: cry in your own efforts with the success, applaud yourself.
Speaker 4: You see, we've got to learn to applaud even the
Speaker 4: smallest accomplishments in our life. When we applaud ourself, you
Speaker 4: know what we're doing. We're not being boastful, we're not
Speaker 4: being egotistical and prideful. We're building confidence and faith in ourself.
Speaker 4: Too often we see what we're doing wrong and not
Speaker 4: what we're doing right. We see all the times we
Speaker 4: blew it. But I want to tell you something. Don't
Speaker 4: 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. If you've been made in
Speaker 4: the image of God, You've got to understand when you
Speaker 4: celebrate yourself, you're celebrating God on the inside of you. See,
Speaker 4: it's so important that we do this. You know, life
Speaker 4: doesn't always turn out the way we planned. And maybe
Speaker 4: today 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 you can still get to where God wants you
Speaker 4: to be. You can't live negative and expect to have
Speaker 4: a positive life. You can't dwell on everything that you
Speaker 4: can't do and expect to go out with strength and
Speaker 4: courage to do it. You see, we're all in the process.
Speaker 4: That is the truth. Every one of us in here
Speaker 4: is in a certain area of our life in process
Speaker 4: to the coming, and it's up to us to stay
Speaker 4: encouraged along the way. I'll never forget the time we
Speaker 4: were in another state and my husband was on a
Speaker 4: book tour and we had done an interview with this journalist,
Speaker 4: and I'll never forget he got in the car. We
Speaker 4: all piled in the car, and he sat there for
Speaker 4: a second and he said, you know what, I did
Speaker 4: a good job, he said, I did everything that I
Speaker 4: knew to do. I said what I knew to say,
Speaker 4: he said, And I just feel good about what I
Speaker 4: did today. I did the very best that I could.
Speaker 4: And we had a friend with us, and a little
Speaker 4: later he said, Chuel, you know when you affirmed yourself.
Speaker 4: After that important interview, he said, it reminded me of
Speaker 4: how negative I am towards my own self. He said,
Speaker 4: I thought about, what if that was me that just
Speaker 4: came out of that interview. He said, I would have
Speaker 4: probably had a mindful of doubt. I would have probably
Speaker 4: thought I didn't say the right thing and I didn't
Speaker 4: do the right thing. But when you had the boldness
Speaker 4: and the courage to affirm yourself, he said, it was
Speaker 4: such a freedom for me. It made me realize that
Speaker 4: I can affirm myself. Because See, the truth is, we
Speaker 4: can only do the best that we can do today.
Speaker 4: And if we'll do the best we can do today,
Speaker 4: whether it was the best or not, we'll be more
Speaker 4: equipped to do better tomorrow. You See, my husband is
Speaker 4: one of the greatest encouragers that I think I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: He's encouraged people all over the world, and I believe
Speaker 4: one of the greatest secrets to his encouragement is the
Speaker 4: fact that he knows how to encourage himself. He practices
Speaker 4: finding the best in himself. See, when you're full of
Speaker 4: good things, it's interesting how you see through that lens
Speaker 4: of good things, then you're able to see the best
Speaker 4: in others to affirm and encourage other people. So you
Speaker 4: can't give away what you don't have. If you've got
Speaker 4: a full tank, then you can give encouragement and love
Speaker 4: to one another. Listen, I believe I'm looking at people
Speaker 4: who have decided they're going to practice looking in the
Speaker 4: mirror and deciding who they really are. I believe I'm
Speaker 4: looking at people who are gonna affirm themselves. They're going
Speaker 4: to watch the negative talk and the negative thoughts that
Speaker 4: are going on in their mind. And I believe that
Speaker 4: as we get up every day and we say who
Speaker 4: God says we are, and we reflect the image of
Speaker 4: Almighty God, that we'll be able to go out and
Speaker 4: be encouragers everywhere we go. Amen. Amen, Here's an awesome God.
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