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<div class="SSN_title">"ENCOURAGE YOURSELF IN THE LORD"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: David and his men had gone to help king Achish in battle. When they returned to Ziglag they found the city burned and families gone. David's men turned on him and spoke of stoning.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE NEED OF ENCOURAGEMENT.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. In times of discouragement.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Trying to do the right thing can often be discouraging.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. People will turn on you, call you stupid.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. "Be not weary in well doing."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Getting the blame for something you are not responsible for.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Such was David's case here.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. In times of uncertainty.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. You don't know where to turn.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. You don't know how things are going to work out.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. In times of pressure.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The load gets heavier than you can carry.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The task is more than you can handle.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. In times of fear.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Your security is being threatened.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Times of depression.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. HOW TO ENCOURAGE YOURSELF IN THE LORD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. David called upon the Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He sought God's wisdom and counsel.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Why is it that we leave prayer as a last resort?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. When everything else fails, pray.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Oh the strength and help and peace and power that come to us through prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. By singing spiritual songs.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It can lift your depressed mood.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Force yourself to sing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. You won't want to.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. It will take real effort.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Turn on spiritual music.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Put the praise album on.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Congregate together with God's people.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. When the wolf finds a sheep isolated from the herd, poor sheep.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. What strength we receive as we worship together.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. How often have we entered the doors battered and bruised by our encounter with the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. How God's Spirit began to minister to us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Getting your mind on God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We begin to see things in their true perspective.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. This is not my battle.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. It's not a matter of my strength.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God is still on the throne.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. God loves you and is watching over you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Getting into His word.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE RESULT OF DAVID'S BEING ENCOURAGED.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. He became an inspirational leader and encouraged his men.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He led them in pursuit of the Amalekites.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He led them in victory over the Amalekites.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. "David recovered all."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. How different the ending of that story could have been.</div>
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