Discouragement is the feeling of not having the zeal to do something, sometimes you have made up your mind that you want to do something but at the end of everything you lost the interest of doing it.

You can also say that discouragement is the act of being stop from doing something, you might want to start up something but one thing or the other will stop you for doing it.

Do you know that discouragement is a spirit that doesn't want people to achieve anything in life, that evil spirit will always come when ever you want to succeed in life.

**Causes Of Discouragement**

Discouragement can be caused by different things which i will mention below 👇

1. Discouragement can be caused by disappointment, you might have put all your energy into something but at the end of everything you did not get it, because of it anytime you want to do something when you remember it, your spirit will be down 👇 then you will lost interest. 

2. Discouragement can be caused due to unpleasant experience, you might have experience a lot in the past, then that bad experience will lock up all your interest and zeal to do something, if you want to start something you will end up being discouraged.

3. Another thing that causes discouragement is "Fear" fear is another spirit that can discourage people very fast, when you have spirit of fear in you, you can not have the zeal to do something.

**Effect Of Discouragement**

1. Your joy will turn to sadness

2. You will take some wrong decisions

3. You will stop praying, it will affect your prayer life.

**How To Stop Or Avoid Discouragement**

1. Believe that it's only Jesus that has the power to bless you, wait upon the Lord.

2. Always ask anything you want in the name of the lord.

3. You should always call upon the Lord everytime you want something

Bible verses you can read

1kings 19vs4-8

Deuteronomy 1 vs 21

There are a lot of people that comes into your life because they want something from you, but when they don't want anything from you , they will not come your way.

For someone to love you, they must love you with your wound, you don't have to hide your wound from people even Jesus did not hide his wound from people (John 20vs19) .

Some people hide there wound from there friends just to stay with them, don't hide your wound for people to love you, let them see it, and know who you are, don't pretend to be who you are not, let them see who you are.

THERE ARE DIFFERENT KIND OF WOULD

1. Your wound might be stagnation

2. Your wound might be failure

3. Your wound might be unmarried

4. Your wound might be childless

5. Your wound might be poverty

6. Your wound might be sickness

7. Your wound might be delay, disappointment, rising and falling etc

There are different kinds of wound that people might be passing through in life but they hide it from people.

You can also read the part two of this article to get deeper into this topic

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