Encouragement - Petrus & Alta Ministries

When you get to the point of total dejection – discouragement and you are empty, not worth anything, and totally drained.
Depressed, seeing no use to continue with your obligations – don’t want to continue. Your tired, don’t want to get up in the morning.
You recover halfway for a couple of days and then you go down again. A roller-coaster life.

Reaching this point is an indicator that you should start with a total overview on your walk with Christ.

Remember when you were saved and born again, how did you feel and what did it mean to you?
You felt a peace came over you, you felt different.

2Cor 5:17-21 (ESV) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

What does it mean? You are a new creation, old has passed away and the new has come.

What happened when you took Jesus as your savior?

Eph 1:13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

You have a spirit, soul and body (1Thes.5:23) and Eph 1:13 say your spirit is sealed with the Holy Spirit and you can’t corrupt your spirit anymore and that is what God sees when He looks at you through Jesus.

At the same time, we received the fruit of the Spirit:

Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control;

This also means you don’t want to sin anymore, but your soul and body are still tempted by the devil.

1Jn 1:8-9 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Co 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

It doesn’t matter what we do, God still loves us.

1Jn 4:8-11 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Through God’s grace, will you not lose you salvation, except if you renounce Jesus (Heb 6:4-6).

Heb 10:10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

1Co 3:10-15 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

Your work for Jesus, out of gratefulness for what He has done for you, will be rewarded.

Following your salvation, you were also been baptize in the Holy Spirit when you asked Jesus.

Mat 3:11 “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Act 8:14-17 Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.

How do you overcome your feeling of unworthiness, depression, and so on?
God know you personally, He made you

Psa 139:14-15 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Spent time with the Lord

Climb on His lab and talk to Him, tell Him about your feeling, He does know it all, but you shall feel better.

Jer 15:16 Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts.
1Th 2:13 And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
Pro 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Spending time in the Word strengthens your faith, the stronger your faith the more you can do in the Name of Jesus.

Rom 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Cut the things of the world out, the devil uses his work here on earth to make you negative and draw your attention away from God.

1Co 15:33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Pro 4:23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

The way you think is the way you are, only seeing the bad in life or looking up to God and think positively.

Rom 8:6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Rom 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Constantly rebuilding the power of Holy Spirit you has in you, he is your comforter

Joh 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
1Jn 4:4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
2Ti 1:7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

With the death and resurrection of Jesus, He gave us authority over the devil and his demons.

Mar 16:17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons;
Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Php 4:13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

You are here in ministry for God – working just for God and his children – glorifying God with it

Mat 5:13 “You are the salt of the earth,
Mat 5:14 “You are the light of the world.
Mat 5:16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
1Co 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

When you experience the peace of God in you, you know you can do anything

Php 4:6-7 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Col 3:15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

One last practical thing. Use Facebook or a blog and only post positive experiences in it – with this you kept a record of the good things you seen or done or experience, where you can go back too when you are down, which will also encourage you that you are successful in and through Jesus. This will also encourage the world outside who read it.

We want to bless you with the words of 2Th 3:16 “may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all”.