Dealing with Discouragement | Doug Wilson

In this sermon, preached at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, Pastor Doug Wilson discusses discouragement: where it comes from, why it happens, and what to do about it.
0:00 Start
0:43 Everybody Deals with Discouragement
2:35 Two Ways to Get Perspective
4:40 How Discouragement Comes
5:54 How The Psalmist Responds
9:00 False Comfort
11:12 Triune Peace
13:46 Discouragement in Sin
18:49 Discouragement in Affliction
25:41 Two Advocates
28:31 Pictures of Your Peace

[@NelsonAerial]

It’s sermons like this, and many others, that make me want to live in Moscow!!! Blessings Doug!

[@lindseyswinborne4985]

This was a message that God ordained for me to hear and I am weeping as I type this. I've never faced a bigger trial than the one I face now and I have cried everyday for 6 weeks straight, and I am not usually a crier, as we've been going through one of the worst scenarios that I could've ever imagined. I've never experienced such sorrow before and am sometimes giving in to discouragement as I don't see my dozens of prayers per day being answered. Thank you so much for this message from the Word.

[@deceptionsdemise]

As someone who struggles with anxiety (more than likely an undiagnosed disorder) and someone who listens to himself too often, I benefited greatly from this teaching. By God's grace, I am His.

[@Gerardo-dt8xf]

Same here friend, amen.

[@JJvideoman]

How are you doing?

[@robertoramos8257]

We are not our anxiety or our disorders we are children of God and we have potential that we can't imagine. If you're going through hell don't hold your breathe keep breathing and keep going don't stop in hell.

[@sophiaoconnell-szotysek463]

Listen to Doug’s “The Sinfulness of Worry”. I keep that one on a loop. Stay close. God is good. P. S. Mine is diagnosed.

[@deceptionsdemise]

@@JJvideoman getting better with having assurance of salvation. It's been a long 4 years. Thank you for asking.

[@lionoffireministries]

Whoever is reading this... ✝️ God knows your heart 💓 He knows your pain, hurt and struggles 💔. He will *RESTORE YOU* Just don’t give up ⚔️🛡😇👑🙏🔥😊

[@Mia-xw1nh]

What an excellent msg. Definitely one for our day....

[@brittneyrussell1766]

Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones~~"Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them but they are talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc. Somebody is talking. Who is talking to you? Your self is talking to you. Now this man’s treatment [in Psalm 42] was this: instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says, 'Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.'." These words changed my life tremendously years ago when my doctor wrote about Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones in a blog post.

[@Yesica1993]

I try to never dismiss it as silly when a child gets frustrated/cries when something that we perceive as small goes wrong for them. That's how we must appear to God!

[@rebekahguilder602]

I think the same thing.

[@kquo1784]

Doug, I can’t thank you enough for what you do. It’s about impossible to find this kind of teachings around our area. You uploading these sermons, your short rants of wisdom on your blog/mablog page and everything else has been inspiring and life changing to me. Thank you, sincerely.

[@kaycesmith7643]

Soooo timely. Thank you! ❤️

[@peterhamstra8871]

Thank you. I needed to be reminded that God is in control and that I need to have faith in him.

[@michaelewnetu1590]

Thank you very much sir ! Thank you!

[@jackuber7358]

Key takeaway: "...don't 'listen' to yourself, 'preach' to yourself..." Maranatha!

[@sallyreed5191]

I love this message. Great to hear sin and repentance addressed.

[@kendraannelliott969]

Really love Doug's sermons.

[@jesuschristisking5430]

This is really helpful to me, I’m struggling with adequacy and this discouragement I’m feeling is not from God. Literally speaking the word to yourself is something I never really did a lot.

[@southwife]

Thanks, Doug. Bulls eye.

[@arthurattila7835]

I find the "gift of encouragement" is rare in public preaching. Why is that? This talk encourages me. Thanks

[@GarrettBradfordTX]

First one here! Can’t wait to hear this

[@IcedHamGamingYT]

I’ve been listening to you, Todd Friel, Jeff Durbin, and Chris Rosebrough the past year and a half and it’s so refreshing to have proper Biblical teaching rather than “use the Bible to make your life better in this five simple steps” type teaching.

[@gregs157]

Amen, I've also just started to listen to Doug, Jeff D and James White along this last year. Alistair Begg and John MacArthur are some other good teachers.

[@IcedHamGamingYT]

@@gregs157 Yeah, I’ve listen to John MacArthur, I’m not sure about Alistair though. I don’t remember his voice. Another good one is Ray comfort

[@whythecows]

Ironically enough, I got a Joyce Meyer book ad before this sermon. *shudders *

[@gregs157]

Lyrics to my life. In a room By myself Looks like I'm here with a guy that I judged worse than anyone else

[@andreyemelyanenko5230]

Hallelujah

[@Im_No_Expert_72]

Good word! Thank you

[@idiotbun3552]

I want to take this man home.

[@internetneverlies]

When Doug is saying that the Father spoke peace, I get it. When he says that the Son purchased it, I get it. When he says the Holy Spirit applies it presently, I don't understand what he means. 13:10

[@gabrielizabeth1883]

@Canon Press - I enjoy the communion meditations!... Is there a place to access them? Especially this one as I grew up in the self examination cell of piety and am learning to change my perspective on this precious sacrament.

[@ibperson7765]

This may sound a bit odd, but the heaviest thing on my soul atm is the overprescribing of statins. I guess I will pray about it again. It has yet to be shown that LDL is a heart attack risk factor, yet they are being prescribed en masse. In addition, they have slow-developing side effects (eg dementia) so that people never know the problem. I lost two friends from this. And I have no explanation for it. Im a mathematician and looked at the numbers myself. And several top docs (harvard medical, mit, stanford, another from mit, hopkins, Cleveland clinic - every place but mayo) are saying same about statins and dont like them.

[@Gerardo-dt8xf]

Did your friends take the vaccination?

[@ibperson7765]

@@Gerardo-dt8xf No. One died two years ago.