Doing You Well Wednesday

Encourage Yourself!

Sometimes, you have to encourage yourself. Perhaps, you are going through a real tough time in your life. You are angry, confused, depressed and/or frustrated. It seems the more you try, the tougher things become until you reach the point where you are about to throw your hands up and surrender to defeat. If you are at this point, I have GOOD NEWS for you today.

I'm reminded of the Old Testament story of David. Allow me to give you a quick recap of David.

• Before David was king, he was chosen by God and anointed by Samuel the prophet to become king.
• He killed Goliath.
• King Saul had jealous rages and tried to kill him on many occasions. 
• The women during that day made things no better by publicly proclaiming, "Saul has killed his thousands, but David has killed tens of thousands." 

On one occasion, David and his men had returned to their camp to discover that the enemy had stolen everything - their wives and all of their goods. Not only did the enemy steal their stuff, but the enemy burned the camp. Imagine how he must to have felt! Just as most of us would have done, David immediately had a pity party. Please understand me, David was depressed. His own men talked about stoning him. (1 Samuel 30:6) Now, at this point, David realized that the pity-party had lasted long enough. He began to encourage himself! And, he asked God if He could go into the enemy's camp to recover his stuff. God gave him permission to go into the enemy's camp and to take back everything that was stolen!

So, today, I want you to know that it is time to end your pity-party! It has lasted long enough.

1. Stop the pity-party.
2. Seek guidance. (And, if God says so, then ...)
3. Seize what is rightfully yours!

Be encouraged, and better yet - encourage someone else!  Please know that you have been blessed to be a blessing!