Do Not Let Your Faith Be Shipwrecked by Discouragement or Personalities

Two common attitudes and practices that loom up as threats involve discouragement and the letting of personalities distract or turn one aside, and we will deal with these matters in this article.

What Can Be Done About Discouragement?

HOW can a person fight discouragement?

Counteract Discouragement From the Devil

16. Why does Satan use discouragement as a weapon?

¹⁶ Why does the Devil use discouragement as a weapon?

They were not meant to cause discouragement or to result in unhappiness.

Still, as the context of David’s words at Psalm 103:14 indicates, limitations to which humans are subject can cause discouragement and result in unhappiness.

The indifferent attitude of persons encountered in the house-to-house ministry also exerts pressure tending to cause discouragement to some Christian ministers.

How did he overcome his discouragement?

Yet, others have been able to continue pioneering despite financial difficulties, poor health, discouragement, and other problems.

Poor Health and Discouragement

How have I fought off the gloom of discouragement during my eleven-year battle with this relentless enemy?

These words have always been strengthening in my efforts to defeat discouragement and frustration.

On one occasion he expressed his discouragement by saying: “I became an object of laughter all day long; everyone is holding me in derision.

 8. What is the best way to fight indifference within a Christian household, and how can the trials it brings be regarded?

⁸ What makes things very trying for some of Jehovah’s witnesses is the fact that they live in divided households where unbelieving members of the households are often a constant source of discouragement to them because of indifference or because of outright opposition.

Still, they did not give up out of discouragement.

However, Jeremiah did not succumb to discouragement.

Those faithful persons who took up this service in ages past clung to it in spite of discouragement and hardships.

Discouragement, for example, is a trial that pioneers and missionaries must contend with continually.

Many faithful Christians undergo periods of discouragement, for we are constantly surrounded by negative forces that can dampen our joy.

Keeping company with those who are quick to find fault and criticize others in the congregation may sow seeds of discouragement and negative thinking in you. (1 Corinthians 15:33)

13. (a) What should be our attitude even though most do not listen to the message? (b) How is our ministry nevertheless not in vain?

¹³ Nevertheless, we must recognize that there are a number of factors that can bring discouragement to us individually and make us feel that our ministry is not successful.

The goals should not be too high, so that, if they are not reached, this is a cause for discouragement.