Help to Overcome Disappointment
Here are steps I have found helpful –
- Come to Jesus Christ with your disappointment, trusting him to meet you and change your heart (Psalm 40:1–3).
- Confess that you are longing for something else more than him. Ask him to forgive you through the Cross. Receive assurance of complete forgiveness (1 John 1:9).
- Plead for the work of the Spirit to change your heart, strengthen your faith, enable you once again to experience Jesus Christ as your all-satisfying Treasure (John 6:35).
- Since the Spirit does his work through the Word, find Scriptures describing God’s love, power, and majesty — and promises concerning God as your all-satisfying Treasure. Pray earnestly over these Scriptures. Fight to trust them (Galatians 3:5).
- Continue praying over and trusting these Scriptures until you feel the Spirit changing your heart and you once again experience Jesus Christ as your all-satisfying Treasure (1 Peter 1:8).
- Pray over God’s promise that he will ordain every trial to bring you even more heart-satisfaction in him (2 Corinthians 4:17). Do this until the Spirit strengthens your faith that whatever you lack will bring you even more of God.
- Also pray over God’s promise that he will take care of everything else you need (health, work, money) in such a way that it will bring you even more of him (Philippians 4:13, 19;Matthew 6:33).
- Continue to pray for the other things you desire (healing, employment, children, marriage), but fight to keep trusting Jesus as your all-satisfying Treasure (Psalm 43:4).
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