Discouragement Away - Pr. Bryan Wheeler Thank you for visiting Reformed Sermons . If Satan can get us to look away from our God, we will become easy targets for discouragement. Discouragement is inevitable when we focus our attention on yesterday's failures or today's problems. Even more devastating, is the spiraling nature of discouragement.
Habitual discouragement can lead to depression, which often results in despair.
The Scriptures abound with examples when God's people fell to spiraling discouragement. The miserable 'Giant Despair' will usually take hold of those Christians who mis-focus their attention upon. Preoccupation with our many sins, our past failures, our present foolishness, and our inadequacies and limitations, will inevitably bring us to despair. Show me a discouraged Christian, and I will show you someone who is too preoccupied with their problems to consider that God hears and answers prayer.