February 5, 20181st published 9/26/11 ~ HTMilam
HOW TO HAVE VICTORY OVER DISCOURAGEMENT AND DEPRESSION!
(IT’S SIMPLE BUT NOT EASY!) ~ Dr. Tom Milam
(IT’S SIMPLE BUT NOT EASY!) ~ Dr. Tom Milam
Our devotion for you today – was inspired and the direct result of our devotions this morning after reading from a devotion by Dr. Tom Wallace – we hope it will be a help and a blessing to you! God Bless!
1Cor. 15:57 “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Though the Bible teaches us how to be overcomers, there is still much Doubt, Discouragement, Depression, and Defeat among Christians. These things cause us to do strange things.
1. We will think wrong thoughts: a) Like John the Baptist in prison, doubting if Jesus is really the Messiah, or should they look for another! b) Then Mary and Martha sadly told Jesus had he been there their brother would not have died.
2. We will do wrong things: a) Moses, who smote the rock in the wilderness, rather than speak to it like God commanded.
3. We will say wrong things: a) Like Job, (Job 3:3) “Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.” Resenting the day he was born.
3. We will say wrong things: a) Like Job, (Job 3:3) “Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.” Resenting the day he was born.
4. We pray wrong prayers: Elijah prayed for God to take his life.
5. People see wrong things: Like the ten spies sent into Canaan, who saw giants and themselves as small as grasshoppers.
6. Others go to wrong places: a) Like Jonah, fleeing away from God and his responsibility. b) And Elijah under a Juniper tree.
Now hear the words of the Lord – (2 Cor. 2:14) “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.”
Remember Christ is the answer to DISCOURAGEMENT AND DEPRESSION! In Him there is victory for every need.
Remember Christ is the answer to DISCOURAGEMENT AND DEPRESSION! In Him there is victory for every need.
We love and appreciate all of our families, friends, supporters. May God richly bless you. Keeping our focus on him will help to diminish the very realness of discouragement and depression.
Tom & Linda Milam
Your Missionaries to America
Phil. 2:16
Phil. 2:16
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