The enemy will assault you as long as he needs to with discouragment so you will give up. Discouragement is the breeding ground for doubt that is ripe for the harvest.
If you get discouraged, which is normal at times, one of the best things to do is to remind yourself of all the ways God has comes through for you before. This moves you from discouragement to gratitude.
Discouragement and gratitude cannot co-exist.
It’s like praise and complaint. Have you ever tried to do both? Were you successful? I know I wasn’t.
We all get discouraged sometimes, especially if what we have been praying for or wanting feels delayed. But we can’t roll up to the spot and throw the car in park and sit in it. Not dealing with it creates an open door to the enemy.
King David understood this in Psalm 42:5 when he said:
“Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.”
He was in a state of discouragement and despair but he knew how to strengthen himself in the Lord. He acknowledge how he felt and then commanded his soul to put trust in God. And we can too.
We have the authority to command our souls to priase the Lord. To command the thoughts in our minds to submit to Jesus. But we can’t if we don’t acknowledge how we feel to the Lord. He can handle it. Besides He knows anyway. We aren’t really hiding it from Him.
The way to do it is to just do it. Sounds cliche’ but we talk to friends about everything, why not Jesus?
Instead of phoning a friend, we can find a place to be alone and pour it all out to God. I had a counselor tell me once that if I needed to go into my closet, scream, pitch a fit, cry, throw my fists on the ground, cuss, or whatever, to just do it. Release what I felt in the Lord’s presence so it didn’t come out in someone else’s.
Giants can only discourage us as long as we will let them. If we don’t let it move from normal discouragement over something to unhealthy, then they can’t win against us.
The choice is ours as to whether or not we will take the car out of park or sit in it.
Faythe
ROOTED RENEGADE 
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