{"id":44977,"date":"2022-10-01T01:36:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/light-in-times-of-dark-discouragement-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:36:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:36:28","slug":"light-in-times-of-dark-discouragement-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/light-in-times-of-dark-discouragement-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Light&#8221; In Times Of Dark Discouragement &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all experienced the blues and times of dark discouragement. During these times, we can think about and act upon the following thoughts from the &#8220;light&#8221; of God&#8217;s Word (Psalm 119:105; Proverbs 6:23): <\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> When we&#8217;re feeling overwhelmed and anxious, we can &#8220;light&#8221; up our hearts through prayer (Psalm 62:8; Philippians 4:6-7). A good idea is to write down our prayers, looking back later to see how the Lord has answered them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)<\/strong> We can &#8220;light&#8221; up our minds with God&#8217;s truth every day (Acts 17:11). Allowing it to challenge, permeate, and transform our incorrect thinking that life is hopeless (Psalm 46:1; Romans 12:2).<\/p>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong> We can &#8220;light&#8221; up our life by doing God&#8217;s will &#8211; through worship and service to Him, and by serving fellow Christians (Hebrews 10:23-25). This will help us grow in  faithfulness to our heavenly Father.<\/p>\n<p>When we feel darkness begin to close in on us, we need to turn to God, the &#8220;Light&#8221; (1 John 1:5). He will not only be our refuge, but will give us the strength to keep going (Psalm 62:7-8).<\/p>\n<p>Remember, we won&#8217;t stumble in times of dark discouragement, if we will continually walk in the &#8220;light&#8221; of God&#8217;s Word (1 John 1:7).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encouraging The Unfaithful<\/li>\n<li>Encouraging Words<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s Give Others A &#8220;Push&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Have We Encouraged Someone Today?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all experienced the blues and times of dark discouragement. During these times, we can think about and act upon the following thoughts from the &#8220;light&#8221; of God&#8217;s Word (Psalm 119:105; Proverbs 6:23): 1) When we&#8217;re feeling overwhelmed and anxious, we can &#8220;light&#8221; up our hearts through prayer (Psalm 62:8; Philippians 4:6-7). A good idea &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/light-in-times-of-dark-discouragement-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Light&#8221; In Times Of Dark Discouragement &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}