Introduction

• Acts 14:22

• II Corinthians 1:3-7 – God has comfort to offer!

Moses

• Numbers 11:1-6, 10-15 – Moses was discouraged and overburdened.

• Numbers 11:16-17 – God assigned people to help Moses.

Joshua

• Joshua 6:18, 27 – God gives rules for the spoil.

• Joshua 7:1-13 – Joshua became discouraged and complained to God. God told him to rise up and take care of the sin in the camp.

Elijah

• I Kings 18:1, 17-21 – Elijah challenges the prophets of Baal.

• I Kings 19:1-18 – God told Elijah to get to work on the tasks God gave him.

Paul

• II Corinthians 11:22-30 – Paul had every reason to be discouraged.

• II Corinthians 12:7-12 – Paul had to deal with a “thorn in the flesh.” He complained to God, but God refused to remove it. Paul went about the work God had for him.

• II Timothy 4:5-8

What is common across all these men?

• All these men struggled with discouragements and complained to God.

• God encouraged them to repent and get back to work.