"Failure is part of the process" as someone once said. Get up and start again when you have been knocked down..... and you will be knocked down from time to time.
There are those who would love for you to stay down for the count, even gleeful when you are discouraged. The devil loves to see us fail and remain exhausted and depleted.
There is only success in life when we get back up after being knocked down. As a born-again believer, we have all the resources necessary to get up again, that is the power of the Holy Spirit.
God wants us to learn lessons in our knockdowns but not remain demoralized and depressed. If we focus on the lesson and depend on Christ we can not only get up again we can thrive moving on toward greater exploits for His glory.
It is in getting up again by the power of the Holy Spirit that glorifies God. He gets the glory for accomplishing in us what we cannot do for ourselves.
For the born-again believer, life is one long series of adventures that teach lifelong and even eternal lessons.
I am convinced that every lesson we learn here on earth will serve us in the Millennium when we rule with Christ.
2 Timothy 2:11-13 "…11 This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him; 12 if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us; 13 if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.…"
All born-again believers endure to the end, the enduring to the end is the proof that we belonged to Him.
So when you are "feeling" discouraged and defeated, remember they are nothing more than that, "feelings", they do not define who you are or what you can do through Christ. As long as we are in the will of God He gives us what we need to carry out His will.
There are those who say we should lean into our feelings, which is exactly the opposite of what God wants from us. He wants us to ignore the fleshly feelings and focus on the Spirit Who is able to save us to the uttermost.
Romans 8:6
"For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace."
1 Thessalonians 5:18
"18 In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."
"Everything?" Yes, when we are grateful to God in all that happens to us it demonstrates our trust in Him that all things no matter how hard, are from Him and will have a purpose.
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