Overcoming Disappointment

To begin with, God is a good God whose priority is for us to receive His love and respond to it. God wants us to release the bitterness, resentment in our hearts so that God's love could flow through us to other people we relate to.

It is understood that everyone must have gone through disappointment but we gotta remember that broken heart is a doorway for the devil, the sickness to come! Don't obstruct the purposes God has put in our lives like visions, healing, casting out demons and releasing the bitterness in us. However, He requires us to respond by embracing His love.

Disappointment is a part of our lives and it happens when something we expected turns out differently or expectations we set are let down by certain people.

In the world's context, like for the Chinese, when we are disappointed we tend to endure it as the Chinese character put it this way.

The above character symbolizes a knife put over a heart, which means 'endure' by suppressing what we feel inside our hearts. It completely contradictory with God's way , which is 'persevere'. This means believing that God is gonna carry on the thing with us and bring us out of it.

What do people do when they are disappointed?
1) Fellowship with the wrong people, i.e. those who are disappointed as well
Getting around with these people could bring us farther away from God whereas disappointment is an opportunity for the growth of our faith for God
2) Blame God and shooting out "Why me?" questions instead of asking "God, how should I respond?"
When we are disappointed, we don't recognize what God is doing. We drawback from God. We comfort the pain rather than finding the comforter, i.e. God Himself.

God has also gone through this pain of disappointment. How did Jesus deal with it?
As God won't draw near when people are disappointed, He asked them to talk about it, to draw out their feelings. He also began to remind them God's promises and words. Thus, disappointment has been overturned into faith.

When we are disappointed...
1) Come into the presence of God
2) Face the reality of what is happening and do not harbor hatred, instead, pondering on how it has affected us
3) Be honest with how we feel and react and be responsible
Express and pour out our feelings to Him through grieving or weeping over it. Fix our heart and mind onto the Lord as God is willing to forgive
4) Release the people who caused the disappointment
5) Open up our hearts and ask for God's help

Be willing to forgive!! =D