双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：10月25日 克服沮丧

10月25日

克服沮丧

要等候耶和华！当壮胆，坚固你的心。

——诗27:14

沮丧并不是新鲜事，圣经中很多伟人都有灰心丧气的时候。摩西在西奈旷野的时候，以利亚听说耶洗别要取他生命的时候，当大卫的儿子押沙龙背叛他的时候，他们都感到沮丧。灰心丧气就如人类历史一般古老。

沮丧总是有原因的。很多时候，当我们没按自己的方式行事，当事情不按照我们的意愿进行时，我们就会沮丧。沮丧是信心的对立面，这是撒旦的诡计，要阻挠上帝在你生命中的工作。沮丧使我们的眼目看不见神的慈爱，只定睛在不利的环境上。

我从来没见过一个人每天花时间祷告，学习神的话语，并且信心坚定，还会长时间处于沮丧的状态。

今日祷告

主啊，当我灰心丧气的时候，求你除去我摇摆不定的意念，愿你永远与我同在，饶恕我不知感恩的心。奉主耶稣基督的圣名，阿们！

Cure Discouragement

Wait on the Lord, be of good courage . . .
—Psalm 27:14

Discouragement is nothing new. Many of the great Bible characters became discouraged. Moses in the Sinai desert; Elijah when he heard Jezebel was searching for him to take his life; and David when his son Absalom rebelled against him. It is as old as the history of man.

There is often a cause for discouragement. It comes many times when we don’t get our way, when things don’t work out the way we want them to. Discouragement is the opposite of faith. It is Satan’s device to thwart the work of God in your life. Discouragement blinds our eyes to the mercy of God and makes us perceive only the unfavorable circumstances.

I have never met anyone who spent time in daily prayer, and in the study of the Word of God, and was strong in faith, who was ever discouraged for very long.

Prayer for the day
Lord, when I am discouraged, take away the blindness of my wavering faith. You are with me always. Forgive my ungrateful heart.