How to Overcome Discouragement
MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen Evans
XO Marriage
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🗓️ 30 April 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on marriage today with Jimmy and Carrey. I got my heartbroken in marriage because I got married |
| 0:08.8 | Which is terrible expectations. Let me say something marriage is going to be a battle that you're going to win. Oh, Whether it's relationships work, money or other stressors, the challenges of life can discourage all of us. |
| 0:42.0 | It's human nature sometimes to feel |
| 0:43.9 | discouraged and overwhelmed. Let me say this, even though all of us will be |
| 0:47.9 | discouraged from time to time, how you respond when you're down is always a |
| 0:52.3 | choice. |
| 0:53.2 | Today I want to share with you three keys |
| 0:55.4 | on how we can overcome discouragement in our everyday lives. |
| 0:59.2 | Key number one is a Godword mindset. |
| 1:01.7 | Is focusing your mind toward God and David was a master at this. |
| 1:06.7 | Now in the book of Psalms, there are 150 Psalms in the book of Psalms. |
| 1:11.2 | 73 of the 150 Psalms were attributed to King David. |
| 1:15.2 | David was a worshipper. In many of the Psalms, I absolutely love the book of Psalms. |
| 1:21.1 | Nothing ministers to my heart more than the book of Psalms. Nothing ministers to my heart more than the book of Psalms, |
| 1:25.3 | especially when I'm going through something bad. And that's because the book of Psalms |
| 1:29.1 | were written largely when David was going through some very difficult times in his life. |
| 1:33.0 | So this is Psalm 16-8 written by David, and here's what David says, |
| 1:38.0 | I have set the Lord always before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be moved. |
| 1:46.0 | A Godword mindset. |
| 1:48.0 | See what the devil wants you to have is a godless mindset. |
| 1:52.0 | He wants you to see the giants, the mountains, the problems, the lions, the tigers, and the bears, but he doesn't want you to see God. |
| 2:00.0 | And David chose to see God in everything. |
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