99 - Five Tips For You When You Are Discouraged

1. Discouragement is part of ministry
Facing discouragement is normal in all ministries. Something is off if someone in ministry claims to be on a perpetual high. If you are feeling discouraged, you are not alone.

2 . Remember How God has worked in your life
He saved you, called you, gifted you, prepared you, shaped you, and used you. Recollect those times when God’s work through you has been clear and evident.

3. Identify the actual standard for your ministry
It is so easy to start feeling pressured by standards that God is not holding you up against. God is not expecting you to be someone else. He wants you to be you. Empowered, growing, improving, but still you.

4. Who should you please?
You cannot keep everyone happy all the time. You may preach with great sensitivity and still step on some toes.

5. Pray, prepare and preach
What do we discover if we take stock of your lifetime of sermons and add them to mine and a few others? We discover that the chances of this Sunday’s message being the catalyst for a spiritual revolution are meager.