{"id":3526,"date":"2010-10-14T15:44:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T19:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2010-10-14T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T19:44:30","slug":"are-you-discouraged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/are-you-discouraged\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Discouraged?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong><\/em>. . . when Moses was grown . . . he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens \u2014Exodus 2:11<\/a><\/p>\n

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Moses saw the oppression of his people and felt certain that he was the one to deliver them, and in the righteous indignation of his own spirit he started to right their wrongs. After he launched his first strike for God and for what was right, God allowed Moses to be driven into empty discouragement, sending him into the desert to feed sheep for forty years. At the end of that time, God appeared to Moses and said to him, \u201d \u2019. . . bring My people . . . out of Egypt.\u2019 But Moses said to God, \u2019Who am I that I should go . . . ?\u2019 \u201d (Exodus 3:10-11<\/a>). In the beginning Moses had realized that he was the one to deliver the people, but he had to be trained and disciplined by God first. He was right in his individual perspective, but he was not the person for the work until he had learned true fellowship and oneness with God.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
We may have the vision of God and a very clear understanding of what God wants, and yet when we start to do it, there comes to us something equivalent to Moses\u2019 forty years in the wilderness. It\u2019s as if God had ignored the entire thing, and when we are thoroughly discouraged, God comes back and revives His call to us. And then we begin to tremble and say, \u201cWho am I that I should go . . . ?\u201d We must learn that God\u2019s great stride is summed up in these words\u2014 \u201cI AM WHO I AM . . . has sent me to you\u201d (Exodus 3:14<\/a>). We must also learn that our individual effort for God shows nothing but disrespect for Him\u2014 our individuality is to be rendered radiant through a personal relationship with God, so that He may be \u201cwell pleased\u201d (Matthew 3:17<\/a>). We are focused on the right individual perspective of things; we have the vision and can say, \u201cI know this is what God wants me to do.\u201d But we have not yet learned to get into God\u2019s stride. If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Have you thought about discouragement in this way?<\/span><\/p>\n

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