Satan uses discouragement has a means to derail God’s children all the time. If he can get you to feel discouraged, you are one step closer to throwing up your hands. He wants you to feel like it’s too hard to have a relationship with God, or that your not good enough to be loved by God. Satan wants you to give up on God and your relationship with Him, so that you will stop trusting Him and instead put your faith in the things of the world.

The devil is always trying to get God’s people to feel like God is somehow angry with them. Once a person feels that they cannot rely on God to help them (due to their mistakes and failures), they begin to seek to work things out in their own strength and stop trusting God for the things in their life. This totally breaks down their relationship with God! When in reality, God is standing there waiting for the backslider to return, the backslider is often feeling discouraged and has no faith in their relationship with God, not realizing that if they will repent and turn back to God, He will forgive and restore them!

Just read the story of the prodigal’s son, and you’ll feel the heartbeat of God towards those who have backslidden!

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