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Learning How to Encourage Yourself in the Lord: David Wilkerson (Transcript)

Here is the full transcript of David Wilkerson’s sermon titled “Learning How to Encourage Yourself in the Lord” which was delivered on June 15, 1997.

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TRANSCRIPT:

Learning how to encourage yourself in the Lord. Don’t turn there, but in 1 Samuel, there’s a most interesting account of two men of God who faced the worst crisis in their life in two different ways. These are the two different ways that you and I, when we’re in our crisis, react to our problems and our difficulties. Both of these men were chosen by God and when they came to this, probably the worst crisis in their lifetime, completely overwhelmed, it’s interesting to see how these two men reacted.

I’m talking about King Saul and David. Now, every one of us at times faces crises, hard, difficult crises, and there comes a time when despair tries to take over. It just overwhelms you, doesn’t seem like there’s any way out, seems like you’ve come to wit’s end and you just don’t know what to do, and there’s nobody there to give you a word, there’s nobody to encourage you. Man fails, there’s nothing inside, resources perhaps, and you just feel like the heavens are brass, and you have a tendency or temptation to just resign to despair.

King Saul, we’re going to talk about him first. King Saul found it absolutely impossible to encourage himself in his worst crisis. He had nothing in him to self-encourage himself as David did. He had put himself beyond all possibility of being encouraged and finding comfort from any source, not from man, not from God, not from himself. His life is so full of lessons, and when I’ve been studying the life of Saul this past week, I was absolutely amazed at how this man cut himself off from any possibility of being encouraged.

The Downfall of Saul

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