This is a huge subject. The truth is we will all face discouragement at times and we need to know that there is nothing wrong with us when we do. The worst thing we do when we feel discouraged is to blame ourselves for not being good enough. We look to some stereo types and abnormal role models on social media that never show the truth behind the scenes.
The truth is EVERY one feels discouraged at times. Even the greatest men of God in the bible felt discouraged, some tried to run away from their call like Jonah.
We read multiple stories about David and Josep, and Job and Samson and even the disciples how about Peter he was so discourage that he denied Christ 3 times.
Dear friends don’t fall into the trap of blaming yourself for not being this and that you are not. Remember you are human. you get hungry, you also will get discouraged sometimes. if you just look at being discouraged as being hungry. you know that you need to feed yourself when you get hungry. When you get discouraged its also important to find the right voices of HOPE to speak into your life to feed your spirit with HOPE. Listen to God speak to you and encourage you! Read the psalms and the word.. and take it into your heart.
When David lost all in the battle of Ziklag he cried and moaned until there was no more strength in him to shed another tear.
But it then says BUT DAVID encouraged himself in the Lord.
WE all need to learn to encourage ourselves in and after the hard Dry season. things are going to get better. Put your hopes up. Trust in the Lord That hope is sometimes all we God to live and hold on to.
When you learn to encourage yourself in the Lord it gives God a doorway to restore the things needed for you to go on. God is the God of restoration
Here is the story of David!
Now it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag, on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the South and Ziklag, attacked Ziklag and burned it with fire, 2 and had taken captive the women and those who were there, from small to great; they did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way. 3 So David and his men came to the city, and there it was, burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive. 4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they had no more power to weep. 5 And David’s two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite, had been taken captive. 6 Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was [a]grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.