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LIFE IS MESSY: DISCOURAGEMENT
February 27, 2022
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 Nehemiah 4:1-14,

LIFE IS MESSY: DISCOURAGEMENT

February 27, 2022   /   PASTOR SCOTTY MATTHEWS   /   Nehemiah 4:1-14   /   Bolton Community Church

LIFE IS MESSY – DISCOURAGEMENT

When Life Gets Messy it becomes difficult.

So far in this series, we have addressed three messes that cause life to become difficult.

  1. Stress
  2. Failure
  3. Negativity

Today, we will look at the mess of .
What exactly is discouragement? Despair. Hopelessness is how Webster’s defines it! 

  • You may recall that the man Nehemiah was a leader of the Jewish group that had returned to Israel from Babylon to rebuild the wall around Jerusalem.  Usually, we associate Nehemiah with vision and with purpose. Because he undertakes a building project of enormous proportions and casts his vision to his people!
  1. Depression caused by (vs. 6)

Second cause of discouragement…

  1. (vs. 10b)

Hebrews 12:1b “…let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.”

Romans 7:19 – 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.”

  1. The frustration caused
  1. The frustration caused by

 

Listen to the threat found in verse 11:

“11 Also our enemies said, “Before they know it or see us, we will be right there among them and will kill them and put an end to the work.”

  1. FEAR IS

Maybe it’s a fear that you have to be perfect.

So those are the three causes of discouragement:

  1. FATIGUE
  2. FRUSTRATION
  3. FEAR

 

Satan knows that a Christ follower who is or has limited potential.

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