Find someone else to bless when you feel discouraged. One of the best therapies any counselor will tell you to get over discouragement or depression is to find someone who is in worse shape than you and bless them. All it takes really is walking into a cancer ward in a children’s hospital, where kids are receiving chemotherapy, and you will leave there (probably in tears), thinking you are the most blessed person in the world. II Cor 1:3,4 says it so beautifully that in the area that God has comforted you, you will have the grace and the privilege to comfort others. That is the awesome way God turns situations around. He takes what the enemy meant for evil and turns it around for good. One of my good friends says this….if it isn’t good yet, God isn’t done yet! So take a moment and count some of your blessings. Do you have a car to drive? A bed to sleep in? Covers to keep you warm? A phone to connect with friends? You are more fortunate than probably 80% of the world. You are blessed. In Genesis 12:2, God told Abraham that He was blessed, to be a blessing. The good things that we have received are to be shared. Have you ever notice in I Corinthians where it says that God gives seed to the sower? The sower is the blesser, the giver. God will give you some seed to give, if you show Him you will sow it. So bless someone today, with your words, your actions, or your service. It will lift your spirit, and you will keep the circle of blessing going
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