Welcome to the Feminine Podcast.

This is Nancy Wilson, thanks for joining me today.

Today I'm going to talk to you about lamentations, chapter 3, verses 22 through 24, and I know

you're familiar with it.

And the point is, my topic is really how to counsel yourself.

So here are the verses.

Through the Lord's mercies, we are not consumed because His compassion's fail not.

They are new every morning.

Great is your faithfulness.

The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I hope in Him.

This part of Scripture is written in the midst of real troubles, but we can make use of this

whether our troubles are real and difficult as well as if they are imagined.

I've talked a lot about real troubles in other podcasts, so today I'm going to focus

a little more on the imagined kind, but the application really is the same either way.

Some days we women can feel defeated or discouraged or just down in the dumps and it may be for

no particular reason, or it may be because we're sick and tired, or it may be because

we're in the midst of a real trial and we are weighed down.

The author of lamentations had plenty to feel sorrowful about, but whether it is due

to real afflictions or just because we have been nursing in a case of self-pity, we need

to respond like Christian women, we need to exercise our faith.

And if it is not real troubles, but just sort of imaginary troubles in our heads, even

so we need to counsel ourselves through it and it's very good practice for when the

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