To discourage is to take away the courage of. It is impossible to discourage a coward, because you can not remove courage which is not there. Whenever you see the devil sending people to discourage you, know that you are very courageous. All men were born courageous, but most of them lost it to satan - the thief of courage. Courage is the quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the tenacity to face your fears for a great cause. The most difficult people to discourage are those who have found a future and are focusing on it. Those easily discouraged are people who don't see anything in their tomorrow. Whenever you seek to do something noble as a game changer, there are player haters who will be bitter about it. Nehemiah 2:10 says, "When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel." "But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king? Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem" (Nehemiah 2:19-20). When people speak evil of what you are doing it's a sign of your progress, dogs only bark at moving cars. As the enemy scorns and laughs at you, answer him back with the Word of God like Nehemiah did. Nehemiah 4:1-3 says, "But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall." If you listen well to your enemy without fearful emotions, you will be encouraged by his stupidity and desperation. Tobiah needed to be taught that foxes are not bulldozers which can bring down stone walls. Why would the devil be mad at what you are doing if it's not going to work? Nehemiah 4:7-8, 13-15; "But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it... Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses. And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work." When the enemy fails to discourage you he will try to stop you physically, but with your offensive weapons of prayer, meditation, and fasting his plans will be frustrated in Jesus name!
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