Encourage Yourself | Victoria Osteen
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What does it mean to encourage yourself?
Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you enjoyed today's message, why don't you be a blessing and share it with a friend? We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. Thank you Lord. We exalt you in this place and we honor you today. Amen. He's a good God. I was talking to a girl the other day who had had a breakup in her relationship. And she was so disheartened. She said that she thought this relationship was on the right track. She thought that it could even be headed towards marriage. And then one day he came to her and he said, I'm taking a job in another state. When she was so discouraged, she thought, what's happening?
When she began to think about how he could leave so quickly, it began to demoralize her. She thought, wow, I'm not as special as I thought I was. I guess he didn't love me like I thought he loved me. She said, I began to dwell on these thoughts and I became more discouraged. She said, you know, I was just really just trying to make sense of it all, trying to figure it all out. What happened? What did I do?
How can personal experiences shape our self-worth?
She said, I got to the place where I didn't even want to go, hardly go to work. I certainly didn't want to go out with any friends. I found myself just staying at home a lot. And she said, one evening I turned on the television and I saw your ministry. She says, as I began to listen and listen to the messages, I began to regain a sense of who I was. She said, I began to become encouraged again. She said this that I thought was so good. She said, I realized what I had been doing was I had been so focused and so attentive to what had happened to me that I wasn't understanding what was happening in me. She said, I had been so hurt. I had been so discredited. I felt so all alone. And what was happening to me was causing what was happening in me to totally destroy my life.
She said, I didn't want to do anything. She said, and as I became encouraged, she said that discouragement left and hope rose. She said, I literally got to the place where I could look myself in the mirror and like myself again. She said, little by little, she said, I'd get up in the morning and I would look in the mirror and she would say, you were beautiful. You are talented. You are valuable. She said, I began to have this fun person come back into my life, the person I really was. And she said, I got so excited, I got encouraged to get up in the morning and look at myself and tell myself how well I was doing. You see, I love that. She added this, and I can't leave this out. She said, and I would say to myself,
God is going to bring the right person across my path because I'm in the palm of His hand. I love the fact that she did something about her discouragement. She made a choice. She took what she received on the inside, the encouragement she got from the ministry, and she began to encourage herself. It says in Exodus 6 that when Moses was going to lead the children of Israel out of captivity, which God had promised would happen, when he went to them to tell them that this was their time, this was the moment that God was going to cause them to leave this burden of this yoke, this bondage that they had been under. The scripture says this. It says that they were too discouraged to believe. They had been under so much discouragement that they couldn't even believe what God could do for them.
You know, that's a sad statement, too discouraged to believe. But I'll tell you what it shows me. It shows me the power of discouragement in our life. It shows me that when we become discouraged, we can't even get the faith to believe that God can take us to the places we need to go, to take us over a challenge, through an obstacle. You see, discouragement is heaped on us and we can't see. You know, it's very interesting because the young girl that I talked about, when she began to encourage herself, when she began to take this encouragement that she had on the inside and encourage herself, you know, nothing had changed on the outside.
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