June 26, 2022 Discouragement
June 26, 2022

Discouragement is to lose all sense of


to the enemy.

Colossians 3:21 (ESV) - Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
John 10:10 (AMP) -  The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).

Encouragement is to

and life.

Matthew 6:33 (Message) -Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

If our encouragement comes from anything other than
Jesus, we will always be

.
Genesis 40:1-8 (NASB) -Then it came about after these things, the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt. 2 Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker. 3 So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned. 4 The captain of the bodyguard put Joseph in charge of them, and he took care of them; and they were in confinement for some time. 5 Then the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, who were confined in jail, both had a dream the same night, each man with his own dream and each dream with its own interpretation. 6 When Joseph came to them in the morning and observed them, behold, they were dejected. 7 He asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in confinement in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so sad today?” 8 Then they said to him, “We have had a dream and there is no one to interpret it.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell it to me, please.”

2 Peter 1:3 (NASB) - His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

Too much

is discouraging. Knowledge of Jesus gives us all we need to live .
2 Peter 1:3 (NASB) - So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him,… 12 Then Joseph said to him, “This is the interpretation of it…14 “Only keep me in mind when it goes well with you, and please do me a kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh and get me out of this house. 15 “For I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.”
16  When the chief baker saw that he had interpreted favorably, he said to Joseph, “I also saw in my dream,…21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand; 22 but he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted to them. 23 Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

Ezekiel 36:26 (ESV) - And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

True encouragement is having a new heart and a new life, and this only comes through

.