Scripture: Isaiah 30:1-5
Impatience is a form of unbelief. It’s what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of God’s timing or the goodness of his guidance. It springs up in our hearts when the road to success gets muddy or strewn with boulders or blocked by some fallen tree. The battle [...]
Scripture: Psalms 73:21-26
So here’s the lesson. When Satan drops a bombshell on the peace of your life the initial shock waves of emotional response are not necessarily sin. What is sin is not to do what Jesus did when the bomb fell in the Garden of Gethsemane. Sin is yielding to depression. Sin is not [...]
Scripture: Psalms 73:21-26
As I mention these five steps in Matthew 26:37 and following I want you to fix in your mind what it is that threatens your tranquility most, what it is that causes despondency or disheartened feelings to rise most often in your own life. What’s the shell that Satan drops most frequently into your life? [...]
Scripture: Psalms 73:21-26
Now the amazing thing about this is that the word used here that he was troubled is also used of the disciples. However Jesus says to the disciples, “Don’t be troubled.” John 14:1, “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.”
Or John 14:27, “My peace I leave with you; [...]
Scripture: Psalms 73:21-26
Look at verse 36:
Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go yonder and pray.” And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is very [...]
Scripture: Psalms 73:21-26
The Psalm 73:26 contains this truth, “My flesh and my heart may fail.” Now literally it’s just “fail,” not “may fail.” There’s no “may” implied in this Hebrew verb. Its just, “My flesh and my heart are failing, I am discouraged, I am despondent, I am at my wit’s end.” And then comes the [...]
Scripture: Psalms 73:21-26
I want you to focus on verse 26 for just a few minutes – “My flesh and my heart may fail” – because that’s the definition of despondency that I want us to work with. Do you see the three parts to that little phrase “my flesh and my heart may fail”?
“My flesh” [...]
Scripture: Romans 12:17-21
3. Trust That God’s Justice Will Prevail
The third way to battle the unbelief of bitterness is to trust that God’s justice will prevail.
One cause of bitterness is the feeling that you have been wronged by someone. They have lied about you, or stolen from you, or been unfaithful to you, or let you down, [...]
Scripture: Romans 12:17-21
2. Cherish Being Forgiven by God
The second way to battle the unbelief of bitterness is to really cherish being forgiven by God. Underline the word cherish.
Paul said in Ephesians 4:32, “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” In other words, being forgiven by God should have [...]
This is a word of encouragement to our congregation. This encouragement comes from David Wilkerson. I feel that God is moving within our congregation in the midst of the afflictions and troubles many are going through. Be encouraged that what you are going through is for a purpose. God is making mighty warriors out us. [...]