King's Inspiration: DEFY THAT DISCOURAGING VOICE

By william King |Email: kingwilliam189@gmail.com | image courtesy : Brainycreatures

When you read the Psalms of David, you know that even a person whom God calls “a man after My own heart” is susceptible to discouragement. The pathway down to discouragement is an easy one, a slippery slope and if we let it take us captive, it will hold us prisoners.

When you feel as though you are never good enough, an illness isn’t going away, people are talking negatively about you and you join in with your own negative, critical thoughts about yourself, it drains the life and power out of you. The enemy will try to keep you distracted from what God says about you by reminding you of how your life does not measure up.

So how do you break the chain of discouragement? In Psalm 43, David begins to talk about his overwhelming feelings of oppression and rejection, even a sense of darkness and mourning. But suddenly there is a complete turnaround in his prayer. It is as though he stops in his tracks.

He challenges those negative situations with eyes that begin to focus on God dwelling on His holy mountain, the God who is David’s “joy and delight.” He talks to himself and says, “Why, my soul, are you discouraged? Why so sad?” Then he declares, “I put my hope in God.”

David realized, just as we must, that God has wired us for power, but we have to switch it on. Romans 10:9-10 not only tells you how to get wired, but it speaks of how to flow in it. The apostle Paul says, “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”

If you are a believer today, you have the Lord Jesus living inside of you. The Spirit of God dwells inside you, so you are fully wired. Now switch on the power. When you feel that you’re not good enough, believe with your heart and confess with your words, “No, I am fearfully made.”