Disappointed? How to Deal with It
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November 14, 2022 at 12:59 amSometimes I watch things happening in our world and it brings me great disappointment. I experienced that recently, and I’m sure many of you have as well. However, I have learned a few things about disappointment over the years, and therefore I knew I must not allow it to take hold in my heart or mind.
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November 14, 2022 at 1:00 amHope deferred makes the heart sick Proverbs 13:12
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November 14, 2022 at 1:02 amI have read this scripture many times over the past several years. One year I lived in disappointment to the point that I was heartsick. This caused me to fall into a deep, dark place — a place it took me months to crawl back out of. Before that experience, I did have a few disappointments, just as everyone else has, but this was different. I went through a season, lasting several years, that brought one disappointment after another. It seemed to be never-ending.
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November 14, 2022 at 1:03 amLet’s consider the following terms: Hope — what we are waiting for, hoping for, and expecting; Sick — to be weak, ill, diseased; Deferred — something drawn out, that drags on, that is postponed. These definitions alone sound like a description of the past two years in our nation, do they not? Another rendering of the passage above makes all this even clearer: Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick
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November 14, 2022 at 1:04 amThat was what I had experienced: unrelenting disappointment. I had gone through a season of attacks that lasted for years and seemed never to end; it simply wouldn’t stop, though through it all, I continued to trust God, to cry out to God, to worship God — that is, until the last hit came. That’s the one that seemed to take me out.
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November 14, 2022 at 1:05 amMy young brother Jesse died. I was so disappointed that I really didn’t even know what to do. The next few days were filled with arrangements, his funeral, and grief. Without realizing it, I fell into a dark place. Fighting my way back from that final place of unrelenting disappointment was so difficult that I have never wanted to fight that fight again.
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November 14, 2022 at 1:07 amWe Can Be Confident in the Lord These days when disappointment tries to come, I don’t push it aside — I deal with it. I don’t allow it to get into my mind or heart. Unresolved disappointment is dangerous. Disappointment in God causes unbelief in His goodness and restricts His blessing. We simply can’t allow disappointment to hang around. I am not saying that this is an easy thing to do; it is very difficult to go through a disappointing season and still believe you will see the goodness of God in your life, but it is possible.
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November 14, 2022 at 1:08 amOne psalm says: I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living Psalm 27:13
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November 14, 2022 at 1:09 amAnother version phrases it: I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
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November 14, 2022 at 1:10 amThe promises of God reveal the heart and character of God. What we believe affects our heart, our attitude, and our expectation. If we allow our minds to feed on what God hasn’t done, it creates a place for offense and unbelief. Don’t do that. It is a trick of the enemy.
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November 14, 2022 at 1:11 amThe truth is, God is always good. There may be things we do not understand and never will, but that does not change the character of God. In the very midst of disappointment, instead of allowing it to get inside you, feed on the word of God and on His faithfulness.
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November 14, 2022 at 1:12 amA few years back, a friend of mine had cancer. She had only a couple days to live. When I visited her in the hospital, I was devastated. She hadn’t told anyone about her diagnosis, although she fought it for a few years. I couldn’t believe that this woman, so Spirit-filled and so full of God, was dying. I was so disappointed in what I was seeing. And it got on the inside of me.
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November 14, 2022 at 1:13 amCultivate His Faithfulness When I left the hospital that day, God told me to get a book by Dodie Osteen, Healed of Cancer, and read it over and over until it drove out all disappointment and caused faith in His goodness and healing to be reestablished in my heart.
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November 14, 2022 at 1:15 amThat’s what we must do when we are disappointed. Whatever the disappointment is, find scriptures that declare God’s will in the situation, and meditate on them. Feed on them. Eat of them until the word of God is bigger than the disappointment. Will it change the outcome? Perhaps not. But it will change your perspective of God and His faithfulness. Your perspective of God is what the enemy is after. That is what he was after with Adam and Eve in the Garden, and that is what he is after with you and me today.
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November 14, 2022 at 1:16 amUnrelenting disappointment makes the heart sick. Today, if you are heartsick, feed on God’s word. Dwell on His faithfulness. Ask Him to heal and restore your heart. He will do it for you. I know. He did it for me.
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November 14, 2022 at 1:16 amIf this article has encouraged you, why not share it with someone who is hurting?
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November 14, 2022 at 1:20 amFather, help us not to become disheartened in our sufferings, but to know that we will see Your goodness in this life — in spite of anything. In the name of Jesus! AMEN🙏🏻♥️🕊
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November 14, 2022 at 10:36 amThank you for sharing.
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November 14, 2022 at 2:31 pmPrayer: Yes, and I ask you, my true companion, Jesus, to help you be subject to You, God. …Come close to God and He will come close to you. and purify your hearts. Thank you- we pray in Your Mighty Name.
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November 15, 2022 at 10:40 amThank you Spiritdoc1 for this posts. They are very encouraging. I pray more will read and be encouraged by it. There is a song I always love to listen to titled. “I almost let go, I was right at the edge of a breakthrough but couldn’t see it……….” I’ll find the words and post here Blessings to you my sister Gods Chosen OneGA 🙏🙏
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November 15, 2022 at 10:44 amSong is by Kurt Carr I almost let go I felt like I couldn’t take life anymore My problems had me bound Depression weighed me down But God held me close So I wouldn’t let go God’s mercy kept me So I wouldn’t let go I almost gave up I was right at the edge of a breakthrough But I couldn’t see it The devil really had me But Jesus came and grab me And He held me close, so I wouldn’t let go God’s mercy kept me so I wouldn’t let go So I’m here today because God kept me I’m alive today only because of His grace Oh, He kept me, God kept me, He kept me So I wouldn’t let go I almost let go I felt like I couldn’t take life anymore My problems had me bound Depression weighed me down But God held me close So I wouldn’t let go God’s mercy kept me So I wouldn’t let go So I’m here today because God kept me I’m alive today only because of His grace Oh, He kept me, God kept me He kept me, God kept me He kept me, God kept me, He kept me God kept me, He kept me So I wouldn’t let go He kept me, God kept me, He kept me God kept me, He kept me So I wouldn’t let go Enjoy. GCOGA 🙏🙏
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