What does discouragement mean?
Discouragement is described in the dictionary as the loss of confidence or enthusiasm.
When a person feels discouraged, he or she loses the confidence and energy to keep on.
To achieve anything in life, we must have the ability to persevere. A person who is discouraged lacks the motivation to keep fighting. Quitters don't win, and winners don't quit.
What are some of the things that might make you feel discouraged?
The biggest dread of discouragement is fear. When we are overpowered by fear, we have a tendency to give up. Fear saps your vitality and paralyses you. The fear of the unknown is common, and you should know that you have nothing to fear.
Failure: This will discourage anyone from trying again until they get the desired goal. You are unlikely to attain your goals on your first try. When they don't see instant results, many people give up, but those that endure and are tenacious will eventually prevail. Your finest strategy may fail; if this happens, think about what went wrong and try again.
Lack of confidence: This may be caused by poor self-esteem and results in a feeling of inadequacy, resulting in an inability to carry out your plan or activity.
The Bible contains divine guidance on how to live a life of victory and peace.
Meditation on these verses in prayer can provide you with the wisdom you need to overcome every sign of discouragement.
Failure: This will discourage anyone from trying again until they get the desired goal. You are unlikely to attain your goals.
JOSHUA
1:9 KJV
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
DEUTERONOMY
31:8 KJV
And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
EZEKIEL
2:6 KJV
And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
JOSHUA
8:1 KJV
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:
JOSHUA
10:25 KJV
And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.
Romans 8:28 KJV - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
PSALM 16:8 KJV
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
PSALM 16:9 KJV
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
PHILIPPIANS 1:6 KJV
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ:
EPHESIANS 3:20 KJV
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.
JOHN 14:27 KJV
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
PSALM 37:4 KJV
Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
PROVERBS 16:3 KJV
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
PSALM 27:13 KJV
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
PSALM 27:14 KJV
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:57
KJV
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
PSALM 34:19 KJV
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
1
SAM 17:11 KJV
When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
2
KING 19:26 KJV
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
1
CHRONICLES 22:13 KJV
Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.
1CHRONICLES
28:20 KJV
And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
2
CHRONICLES 20:15 KJV
And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
2
CHRONICLES 20:17 KJV
Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
2
CHRONICLES 32:7 KJV
Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:
ISAIAH
21:3 KJV
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
ISAIAH
37:27 KJV
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
ISAIAH
41:10 KJV
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
ISAIAH
41:23 KJV
Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
JEREMIAH
1:17 KJV
Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
