Discouraged How To Deal With It
Discouraged, that can be a problem that should not even be there if you are saved. If you are I think some knee time might just be the answer. Being Discouraged is not of God and we know where that comes from our enemy is good at discouragement. So let us talk about it and see what we can do with it… Discouraged, let us learn to give it to God and not be discouraged be encouraged that He can get us through it.
By Jym Wells
06/01/2016
I sit in awe thing about my God. I grasped on to something on April 24, 1982, and hung on to it as tight as I could. I tried to be all that I had heard I should be and that I thought was expected for me to be. I tried to follow the “Ten Commandment” I would get angry with me when I would slip and say a word that [not sure who] said I should not say. I worked hard at it day and night, I worked at trying to please God, for I wanted nothing more than to make Him happy. Maybe you have been there also or are there right now, are you discouraged?
However every day I would slip or stumble and I would get discouraged and down hearted. To the point in 1999 when I walked out of the church building, I threw up my hand and said I quit I can not do it I will never be what I am expected to be and I can not sit and listen to another Pastor talk about this Religion or that Religion. I can not do this so why even try. All the time I had been thinking that there had to be more. I was not getting the whole story, something was missing. I felt in such a mess it was like a dead-end street with no way out.
I threw my hands up and said I give up I am trying to do them impossible it can not be done. So I thought about it for a while and on July 5, 2000. I moved to a very small little community called Cortes Lakes Arizona, I purchased a 38 foot 5th wheel travel trailer and was ready to give up. However for some reason, I hung on and I made a deal [in my mind anyway] with God. OK Father You show me a church that does not talk about other churches and I will go and until then I am finished. Well, it took 10 years then I was introduced to such a church. Now when I looked back I was doing the very thing I had been trying to do for 17 years before for those 10 years the only difference was I was not trying.
I was told in August of 2009 that I had cancer and not one, however, two discouraged. I was not told what kind or where or anything just Mr. Wells you have cancer and we need to schedule you to see another Doctor and I was sent home. I remember that day as though it was yesterday, discouraged big time. All I know was I had cancer and I figured I was going to die. My wife was in Chicago helping her dad move some stuff they had stored in a friend’s house and I had decided not to tell her while she was there I did not wish to discourage her while she was seeing her dad.
To make a short story longer I waited and finally I saw a Doctor and was operated on, was told it was gone and all was well however 6 weeks later I was told he did not get rid of it all and would have to operate on me again. Again I was told they got it all that time however after 6 weeks they told me they did not get it at that I said let’s find a Doctor that knows what they are doing, so after some fighting I got into Mayo Clinic and after some test they went to work. OH my Doctor told me that they [Mayo] had not operated on that cancer for 15 years they would use Chemo, Radiation or both and shrink it or get it all out. If they shrunk it they would then Laser it or burn it out.
So I was finally released from Mayo cancer free. Then I knew God had watched over me and I needed to get back in Church and I was introduced to Springs Church. And through all that I was back in Church only thing was I started back trying to do all that was needed for me to do to get to heaven. I remember the day I listened to a Pastor that opened my eye wide open. I heard the most powerful message I had ever heard and believe me I have heard some.
However In October 29 of 2012 I had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital when I woke up on October 31 Halloween I had been through a triple by-pass and thought someone had beat me with a sledgehammer. Wel,l it is now May of 2015 and I am still here and doing great. Now the story begins. There is no way anyone can live up to what man has laid out for us. Yes I did say man not God, in fact, I think God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses to show the Israelites that they could not live up to His standards. My journey started with These two Scriptures Romans 10:9-10 (NIV) 9 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. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
One must declare with their mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in one’s heart that He has been raised from the dead one is SAVED not might be not could be you will be. Did not say that you confess it with your mouth and hope you are saved or start to work or make an effort it says WILL BE SAVED. OK, now that is finished what is next. I need to get busy and do all this or that I have to read 3 Chapters of the Bible a day I have to pray over Breakfast, need to get down and serious about this praying thing at least an hour a day. I have to pay my membership fees [tithes] and here I went again, discouraged.
Then I stopped when I read this scripture. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. OK I am an anyone and I am saved according to Romans 10:9-10 (NKJV) 9 so I am a new creation. [this hit me at this] I am a NEW CREATION, thus Born Again. So as a new creation, being born again it means I am a baby Christian and need to learn how to walk and act and speak basically GROW UP. This old person is dead and gone if it is dead and gone however can anything that happened back there matter? So why do I keep going back there and digging it up, it has PASSED AWAY. Galatians 2:20-21 (NKJV) 20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”
Here again I saw that the old man died, was crucified on the cross with Jesus it is dead and gone. I no longer live here Jesus lives in me. Wow, that made it easier for Jesus can and will do what is right. Then I read the last part and busted out in tears. If righteousness comes through the law, all them regulations I had been led to believe, then Jesus died in VAIN. Then I turned to Matthew 5:17-18 (NIRV) 17 “Do not think I have come to get rid of what is written in the Law or in the Prophets. I have not come to do this. Instead, I have come to fulfill what is written. 18 What I’m about to tell you is true. Heaven and earth will disappear before the smallest letter disappears from the Law. Not even the smallest mark of a pen will disappear from the Law until everything is completed. Jesus came to this earth to complete [fulfill] the law so when he died he said IT IS FINISHED. Meaning everything He came to do He did and now He is going home to sit at the right hand of the Father. There is no reason to be discouraged, God is in control…
Let us now look at John 3:16-17 (NIV) 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. See Jesus came for one reason and only one reason and that was to save the world. There is nothing you can do to earn anything from our Father once you have accepted Jesus IT IS FINISHED. Now we will do things for our Father because we wish to. To put this way parents do not have children so that they will come running into the house yelling they love them they had the children so they could love them.
Jesus reduced the Ten Commandments to the Two Commandment Loving God… Loving People. Matthew 22:37-40 (NIV) 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Well, I will end with this part now and I truly hope that you understand what I feel Jesus is saying to us all the time. Matthew 5:43-48 (NIV) 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Memory Verse for June 1, 2016
Matthew 22:38-39 (NIV) 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
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Isaiah 46:4 (NKJV) Even to your old age, I am He, And even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver you.
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