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trapperhoney

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please pray for me.  I am feeling disheartened and discouraged.  no particular reason, just unfulfilled.  I am hoping it is just hormones, but it is really getting me down right now.

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Bless your precious heart, trapperhoney!  I empathize with you because I too go through bouts of discouragement.  However!  When I am feeling down and alone and disheartened I run to the Lord for His comfort and help (as I'm sure that you also do).  Since He knows me better than I know myself, I try to be as honest as I can be with Him.  There have been some very precious moments in prayer as I've shared with Him the depths of my feelings.  I try not to justify or excuse or defend what is going on in my heart and mind, but rather to acknowledge to Him how much I appreciate how much He loves me in spite of those feelings!  Praise Him that He knows my so very limited human frame; that I am but dust!  It's so very uncomfortable to be discouraged and down and not feeling as though I have anything much to contribute to His glory. 

There are two verses that I also try to habitually incorporate in my thoughts and heart especially when I am blue.  The first is II Cor. 10:5 - "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ..."  and the second is Phlp. 4:8 - "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."  Even before I refer to those two verses, I whisper thanks to the Lord for "allowing" me to have the "blues" to start with.  Sometimes my blues are provoked by health issues, sometimes by burdens, and sometimes by my own sin that I struggle with.  So, I thank Him for the opportunities that are there through the "blues", and I ask Him to help me to "lose myself" in Him...seeking His will and way that my mind would be strengthened and renewed, and that glory would be brought to Him because of the circumstances.

When I try to speak of the power of His love in my life, I stutter and stumble and find myself so very inadequate to express it aptly.  What I CAN express though, is that regardless of my circumstances....it is well with my soul!  God loves me and He lived, and died, and rose again for me!  I am eternally saved and I know it!  I am sanctified, redeemed, adopted, regenerated, justified, accepted in the beloved, and sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise!  I'm Heaven bound!!  With redundancy I remember that there is nothing that can separate me from His love, and nothing can erase my name out of the "Book of Life" ...for it was written by the very power of His shed blood on the cross.  It says in Is. 49:16 - "Behold, I HAVE graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me."  He is omnipotent, and HE has done the "engraving" on the palms of His hands!  No man can pluck me from out of His hand!  There is sooooo much GOOD NEWS! 

My "blues" don't usually stick around for too long when I "find myself in Him"!  "Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it" (Luke 17:33).  I shall pray that you will be strengthened by His might, and that you will know that soft joy and sweet peace in answer to prayer.

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please pray for me.  I am feeling disheartened and discouraged.  no particular reason, just unfulfilled.  I am hoping it is just hormones, but it is really getting me down right now.

When I have been in this condition (more often than I would like to admit as a bachelor) I have found the best ways to pull me out of it is:

1.  Visit members or people in the hospital or nursing homes.  Seeing their struggles first hand makes me so thankful for my own petty issues that I come away blessed because of them.

2.  Lead someone to the Lord.  Nothing re-energizes your soul better than that!  

Bro. Garry

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