Interact Close Bible Notes Important: You will NOT lose your data entered when you change to a different tab. This note will be displayed at bottom of your sermon note when you save to pdf or email them Contact FormSend us your questions, comments, prayer requests or other. Guest Feedback FormLet us know your experience here. Week of February 27, 2022 Welcome to Bolton Community Church (BCC), we are so glad that you have taken the time to join us this morning. If you have any questions about this mornings message please feel free to speak to Pastor after the service. This Saturday is BBB – Breakfast, Bible Study, & Bro Time. This starts at 9:00am in the Cafe of the church. Watch X Download Note: You will be taken to another browser tab to view this. If on phone/tablet, simply click the back button to go back to this notes page. You will not lose any notes. Connection Card Bolton Community Church LIFE IS MESSY: DISCOURAGEMENT February 27, 2022 View Archives Reveal Blanks Main Scripture Reference(s) Nehemiah 4:1-14, LIFE IS MESSY: DISCOURAGEMENT February 27, 2022 / PASTOR SCOTTY MATTHEWS / Nehemiah 4:1-14 / Bolton Community Church LIFE IS MESSY – DISCOURAGEMENT When Life Gets Messy it becomes difficult. So far in this series, we have addressed three messes that cause life to become difficult. Stress Failure Negativity Today, we will look at the mess of . What exactly is discouragement? Despair. Hopelessness is how Webster’s defines it! You may recall that the man Nehemiah was a leader of the Jewish group that had returned to Israel from Babylon to rebuild the wall around Jerusalem. Usually, we associate Nehemiah with vision and with purpose. Because he undertakes a building project of enormous proportions and casts his vision to his people! Depression caused by (vs. 6) Second cause of discouragement… (vs. 10b) Hebrews 12:1b “…let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” Romans 7:19 – 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.” The frustration caused The frustration caused by Listen to the threat found in verse 11: “11 Also our enemies said, “Before they know it or see us, we will be right there among them and will kill them and put an end to the work.” FEAR IS Maybe it’s a fear that you have to be perfect. So those are the three causes of discouragement: FATIGUE FRUSTRATION FEAR Satan knows that a Christ follower who is or has limited potential. DID YOU KNOW? Double click a sentence in your note above to highlight it or add your own note below it. Send to Email Enter your email address below to receive a copy of your filled in notes Send Save PDF Locally Click to save a copy of the filled-in notes to a PDF file on your device Generate File Click to View PDF Save PDF to Google Drive Click to save a copy of the filled-in notes to a PDF file on your Google Drive account(For Apple devices, use Chrome browser or go to SETTINGS>SAFARI and uncheck BLOCK POPUPS.) Save File