As life beaten you down, no job, tough marriage, maybe a problem with one of your kids, do you

feel like throwing in the towel, I mean literally just giving up?

Well before you make one more decision, would you hit the pause button in your life?

God wants to enter into your situation and bring hope to you personally in the midst

of your most discouraging time, stay with me.

Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chipping Room.

The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible

teaching of Chipping Room.

Thanks for joining us as we continue Chip Series, keep pressing ahead, and today we'll

learn how to handle the discouragement head-on by tapping into God's power that can bring

us courage and hope in our most trying circumstances.

And for honest, we all struggle with unhappiness or disappointment from time to time, so listening

after today's message for some helpful encouragement from Chip, you won't want to miss it.

Okay, go on your Bibles now to Nehemiah, chapter 4 for Chips Talk, Facing Discouragement.

I want to start with two questions, and I have an answer to the second question.

Question number one is what is the most difficult, distressing, discouraging situation in your

life right now?

I mean, what person, what circumstance makes you feel like, I want to give up, I want to give in,

forget it. You may have not said it to anyone, but so just, I want you to get that in your mind.

There's one thing that God could just wipe away and make right, make different, make easy,

solve for you, what would it be?

Question number two is why must you keep pressing ahead?

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