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Well, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:20.040 she was so discouraged. She thought, what's happening. When she 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.760 began to think about how he could leave so quickly, 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.520 it began to demoralize her. She thought, Wow, I'm not 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.120 as special as I thought I was. I guess he 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.000 didn't love me like I thought he loved me. She said. 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.240 I began to dwell on these thoughts, and I became 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.919 more discouraged. She said. You know, I was just really 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:38.960 just trying to make sense of it all, trying to 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.839 figure it all out. What happened? What did I do? 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.160 She said? I got to the place where I didn't 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.520 even want to go hardly go to work. I certainly 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.160 didn't want to go out with any friends. I found 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.800 myself just staying at home a lot. And she said, 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.920 one evening I turned on the television and I saw 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:00.040 your ministry. She says. As I began to listen and 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.120 to the messages, I began to regain a sense of 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:09.000 who I was, She said, I began to become encouraged again. 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.720 She said this that I thought was so good. She said, 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.079 I realized what I had been doing was I had 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:21.760 been so focused and so attentive to what had happened 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:27.440 to me that I wasn't understanding what was happening in me. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.960 She said. I had been so hurt, I had been 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.920 so discredited, I felt so all along, and what was 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:40.120 happening to me was causing what was happening in me 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.880 to totally destroy my life. She said. I didn't want 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:49.080 to do anything, she said, and as I became encouraged, 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:54.200 she said, that discouragement left in holl Rose. She said, 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.600 I literally got to the place where I could look 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:01.880 myself in the mirror and like myself again. She said, little, 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:03.920 my little. She said. I'd get up in the morning 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.720 and I would look in the mirror and she would say, 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:13.880 you are beautiful, you are talented, you are valuable. She said, 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.599 I begin to have this fun person come back into 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.719 my life, the person I really was, And she said, 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.960 I got so excited. I got it. I got encouraged 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.839 to get up in the morning and look at myself 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.559 and tell myself how well I was doing. You see, 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.039 I love that, She added this, and I can't leave 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.480 this out. She said, and I would say to myself, 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.800 God is going to bring the right person across my 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:45.440 path because I'm in the palm of his hand. I 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.760 love the fact that she did something about her discouragement. 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.440 She made a choice, She took what she received on 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.680 the inside, the encouragement she got from the ministry, and 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:01.799 she began to encourage herself. It says in Exodus six 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.039 that when Moses was going to leave the children of 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.719 Israel out of captivity, which God had promised would happen, 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.040 when he went to them to tell them that this 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.560 was their time, This was the moment that God was 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:18.119 going to cause them to leave this burden of this joke, 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.560 this bondage that they had been under. The scripture says this. 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:27.719 It says that they were too discouraged to believe. They 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:32.400 had been under so much discouragement that they couldn't even 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.680 believe that what God could do for them. You know, 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:40.320 that's a sad statement, too discouraged to believe. But I'll 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.720 tell you what it shows me. It shows me the 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:47.240 power of discouragement in our life. It shows me that 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:51.760 when we become discouraged, we can't even get the faith 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.240 to believe that God can take us to the places 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.320 we need to go to take us over a challenge 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:03.280 through an obstacle. You see, discouragement is heaped on us 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.880 and we can't see. You know, it's very interesting because 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.440 the young girl that I talked about, when she began 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.920 to encourage herself, when she began to take this encouragement 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.440 that she had on the inside and encourage herself. You know, 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.120 nothing had changed on the outside. That man didn't come 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:26.440 back to her life, but everything had changed on the inside. 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.880 And when hope rises in your heart, faith causes you 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:36.839 to act. Faith causes you to move forward. The scripture 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.599 tells us that David, the mighty Man of God, who 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:46.679 faced challenge after challenge, learned this secret. He encouraged himself 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.760 in the Lord. You see, David had a warrior's mentality. 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.400 He took this place inside of him that he had 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.520 built up, this place where he had encouraged himself in 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.600 the things of God. He was able to take that 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.680 war chest and encourage himself on the things on the outside. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.280 He was able to look at the face of discouragement 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:12.000 and say, no, my God can supply all of my needs. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.280 My God can get me through this. You see, at 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.800 one point in David's life, everybody had turned against him. 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.480 Even the men that were fighting battles with him were 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.480 so down and discouraged that they turned to David and 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.040 they said, we want to stone you. They were looking 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.400 for someone to blame for the difficulties that they were facing. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.360 David had no one around him that could encourage him, 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:41.320 yet he encouraged himself in the Lord his God. You know, 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.840 it's great when your family is there to encourage you, 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.840 when your friends are there to encourage you. But what 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.880 happens when no one's there to encourage you? You know 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.520 what I believe. I believe we shouldn't depend on other 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.680 people to encourage us. I believe our main source of 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:01.000 encouragement should come right from the inside of us. See. 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.640 I can't even imagine my husband trying to encourage me 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.280 every time I'm discouraged. You know what if I went 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.280 to Joel every time that I was discouraged, he'd probably 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.920 lock himself in a closet and not come out. You See, 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.600 we've got to learn to encourage ourself every day. We've 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.080 got to remember what God has done in our life. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.760 We have to understand that we have to get in 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:26.280 agreement with God. See, you are made in the image 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.400 of Almighty God. God created you, and he made you. 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.960 And if you believe that about your life, then when 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:37.120 you criticize yourself, you might as well be criticizing your creator, 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.679 the one who made you. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:39.760 You. 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:44.040 See, if you can criticize his creation, then what you're 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:48.560 doing is criticizing the Creator because he made you, He 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.800 formed you, he fashioned you just the way you should be. See, 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.199 when you encourage yourself, what you're doing is you're saying, 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.480 thank you God for who you made me to be. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.160 Thank you God that you may need to be more 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.280 than a conquer in Christ Jesus, but I'm an overcomer 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.600 because you've backed me up, because I have your word 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.600 in me. See it's so easy sometimes to see the 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.640 good qualities in other people yet ignore the good qualities 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.679 in ourself. But I believe that we need to see 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.160 the good things in ourself, and we need to applaud 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:27.760 even the smallest accomplishments. You know, maybe you feel like 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.520 you're a procrastinator and there's been a project that you've 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.240 been putting off. Well, when you begin to start that project, 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.880 even if you don't finish it, applaud yourself you know, 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:43.400 what about that diet you've been trying to stay on. Listen, 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:47.640 when you have a good day, applaud yourself. What about 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:52.720 the addiction that you're overcoming When you see yourself trying listen, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.599 cry in your own efforts with the success, applaud yourself. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.800 You see, we've got to learn to applaud even the 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:06.680 smallest accomplishments in our life. When we applaud ourself, you 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.680 know what we're doing. We're not being boastful, we're not 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:15.200 being egotistical and prideful. We're building confidence and faith in ourself. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.400 Too often we see what we're doing wrong and not 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.240 what we're doing right. We see all the times we 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.199 blew it. But I want to tell you something. Don't 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.600 go around looking at all the times you blew it. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.440 Applaud yourself for all the things you've done well by 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:35.120 yourself some flowers. Celebrate yourself. If you've been made in 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.040 the image of God, You've got to understand when you 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:44.120 celebrate yourself, you're celebrating God on the inside of you. See, 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.600 it's so important that we do this. You know, life 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.600 doesn't always turn out the way we planned. And maybe 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.760 today you can say, well, not everything has gone my way. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.840 But can I encourage you with this? You're still here, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.960 You're still full of purpose, You're still full of value. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.480 You you can still get to where God wants you 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:07.120 to be. You can't live negative and expect to have 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.920 a positive life. You can't dwell on everything that you 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.800 can't do and expect to go out with strength and 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:18.040 courage to do it. You see, we're all in the process. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.040 That is the truth. Every one of us in here 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.720 is in a certain area of our life in process 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.080 to the coming, and it's up to us to stay 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:32.440 encouraged along the way. I'll never forget the time we 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.920 were in another state and my husband was on a 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.719 book tour and we had done an interview with this journalist, 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.600 and I'll never forget he got in the car. We 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.120 all piled in the car, and he sat there for 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.000 a second and he said, you know what, I did 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.880 a good job, he said, I did everything that I 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:51.920 knew to do. I said what I knew to say, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.520 he said, And I just feel good about what I 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.600 did today. I did the very best that I could. 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.160 And we had a friend with us, and a little 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:06.200 later he said, Chuel, you know when you affirmed yourself. 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:11.400 After that important interview, he said, it reminded me of 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:15.760 how negative I am towards my own self. He said, 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.520 I thought about, what if that was me that just 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.280 came out of that interview. He said, I would have 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:25.199 probably had a mindful of doubt. I would have probably 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.680 thought I didn't say the right thing and I didn't 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.959 do the right thing. But when you had the boldness 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.120 and the courage to affirm yourself, he said, it was 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.600 such a freedom for me. It made me realize that 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.040 I can affirm myself. Because See, the truth is, we 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.200 can only do the best that we can do today. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:45.920 And if we'll do the best we can do today, 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.280 whether it was the best or not, we'll be more 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:54.040 equipped to do better tomorrow. You See, my husband is 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.800 one of the greatest encouragers that I think I've ever seen. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:05.880 He's encouraged people all over the world, and I believe 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.360 one of the greatest secrets to his encouragement is the 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:13.680 fact that he knows how to encourage himself. He practices 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:18.000 finding the best in himself. See, when you're full of 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.800 good things, it's interesting how you see through that lens 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.640 of good things, then you're able to see the best 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.400 in others to affirm and encourage other people. So you 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.760 can't give away what you don't have. If you've got 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.520 a full tank, then you can give encouragement and love 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:42.959 to one another. Listen, I believe I'm looking at people 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.000 who have decided they're going to practice looking in the 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:50.360 mirror and deciding who they really are. I believe I'm 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.440 looking at people who are gonna affirm themselves. They're going 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.080 to watch the negative talk and the negative thoughts that 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.600 are going on in their mind. And I believe that 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.440 as we get up every day and we say who 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.320 God says we are, and we reflect the image of 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.640 Almighty God, that we'll be able to go out and 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:12.840 be encouragers everywhere we go. Amen. 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