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· Discouragement ·
Nehemiah 4
Despondent, despondency, cold feet, dejection, dejected, depression, depressed, despair, disappointment, discomfiture,
dismay, downheartedness, hopelessness, loss of confidence, low spirits, melancholy,
pessimism, sadness, the blues
Abasement,
abjection,
abjectness,
blahs,
bleakness,
blue
funk,
bummer,
cheerlessness,
dejection, desolation, desperation,
despondency,
disconsolation,
discouragement ,
dispiritedness, distress,
dole,
dolefulness,
dolor,
downheartedness,
dreariness,
dullness,
dumps, ennui, gloom,
gloominess,
heaviness
of
heart,
heavyheartedness,
hopelessness,
lowness,
lugubriosity,
melancholia,
melancholy, misery, mortification,
qualm,
sadness, sorrow,
the
blues, trouble, unhappiness,
vapors,
woefulness, worry
Bevans Welder, Pastor
Bible Believers Baptist Church
Corpus Christi, TX
Nehemiah could have become discouraged by the many problems he
faced upon returning to Jerusalem. But he did not.
1. Fatigue
"faint not"
Fatigue makes cowards
Seek the rest of God
2. Frustration
3. Failure
Negativity is Contagious
4. Fear
"God has not give us the spirit of fear"
Our Response
1. Cry out to God
Jeremiah 33.3
2. Continue the Work
3. Concentrate on the Saviour
4. Claim the encouragement of God's promises
5. "Carry ye one another's burden
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