Selah!
The world rings change, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?
Quote By: -- Thomas Watson
Selah! Talk To God!
Sit Quietly In His Presence! Silently Submit To His Will!
- Father God, there are so many things that I struggle with because my expectations get tangled up with Your plan.
- Disappointment is the feeling I get when Your plan takes a different direction from my expectations and I feel the pain of purposeful stretching
Selah! Focus On God! Guard Your Heart From Doubt!
- If I dwell on disappointment, it converts into doubtful thinking. Doubtful thinking always turns into a street of despair and dead ends with depression!
- Selah! Stop this cycle of death and replace it with a circle of life where Jesus is at the center. Focus on God’s faithfulness not the disappointment.
Selah! Death of Dreams!
- I have experienced the death of a dream so much, in so many ways, with so many situations and people. I have dreamed a dream and it has died, but God always brings forth new life through every death of a dream.
- I dream a dream, I desperately want it, I get focused on my dream, life becomes all about me and my dream and then comes discouragement-disillusionment-despair that God has allowed to get my focus off myself and on Him.
John 6:28-29
They then said, What are we to do, that we may [habitually] be working the works of God? [What are we to do to carry out what God requires?] 29Jesus replied, This is the work (service) that God asks of you: that you believe in the One Whom He has sent [that you cleave to, trust, rely on, and have faith in His Messenger].
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SELAH! SELAH! SELAH!
Believe! Believe In God = No Discouragement = Encouragement!
Believe By Hillsong
SELAH:
My thoughts go crazy all at once as I let go of my dream,
knowing it is going to die. I begin to think and over think
and it sounds something like the following conversation:
- I know I need to change, I know I have been changing -so much! I am not where I want to be - but I know where I am going - growing - to that place of trust-abandonment-to that place where I know the mind of Christ more than the mind and will of me.
- I only see in part - that is the way it will always be - help me to accept that and move on - upward - not just on - but upward. I want to come to a new place of trust where I don’t dream of earthly dreams - where this life matters less and Your Kingdom matters more!
- I don’t know how to get there - past all my human emotions - desires - will! Ahhhh the human will - the human will to do things in my own strength, to make my own way - don't go there!
- I want to see myself the way You see me! I want to know myself the way You know me - and then I want to know You more-most - trusting You with my way - a tall order!
- I know I can’t change myself - but You, Lord God Almighty are very tall - tall enough for my tall order! You, Father God are unlimited! Help me Lord this year - to grow taller in You - because I am more deeply rooted - anchored in Your love! I want to build my life on Your Kingdom principles!
- Love takes no account of the evil done to it - I must let go and I need to be changed inside - be clean of bitterness and resentments and offenses - forget the disappointment - forget the offenses and live a true - really forgiving life in the face of all people as I fully face You Lord God!
- God, I know You use the nights of our lives - the death of dreams and disappointments - discouragements of our lives to usher in a more powerful morning in our lives.
Selah!
Discouragement Takes Up Residence In Our Soul
When Disappointments Are Allowed To Linger In Our Mind!
- I think when people disappoint you, especially ones that you don’t expect to do it, those closest to your heart, discouragement sets in when you emotionally overthink the disappointment!
- Betrayal is such a difficult struggle, especially if you don’t forgive them and bitterness sinks in. Bitterness doesn’t hurt them, it hurts you.
- Bitterness becomes a mirror of their disappointment, a mirror of their sin, a mirror of their mistake and eventually as you continue to look into this mirror, the image that you see looking back at you, looks just like the person who hurt you!
- This is what bitterness does; it duplicates sin instead of erasing it.
- Jesus as He died on the cross, He erased our sins and mistakes completely, as far as the east is from the west and that is why when you see Jesus, you see the image of His Father, You do not see your sin, you do not see death, you see a resurrected, glorified Lord.
- When I get hurt when someone lets me down, or when someone disappoints me or when the consequences of someone else’s sin touches my life in an adverse way, what will I decide?
- Will I look into the mirror of bitterness and become a mirror image of their sin or will I look to Jesus and do what He did = sacrificially forgive and forget and become a mirror image of the nature of God, the unconditional love of the Father God.
- Hurting people hurt people and disappointment comes into our soul when we chase a relationship with people who do not want to be caught. Stop chasing them, let go and let God.
- Disappointment Comes! You respond with running from the circumstance. You think you can change your situation and everything will be new and better.
- This is a letter I wrote to Jesus after making a life change to try to “fix” the disappointment life had thrown my way:
- Dear Jesus, I thought this move would help! Maybe we should have stayed where we were! I can’t figure out why we are here! Nothing is working out the way I planned it. I am still disappointed!
- I feel nothing has really changed except our location. In this there is great disappointment, but In You there is hope and peace. Help me to stay positioned in Your Grace, to trust You and believe You have a plan and it is good.
- Lord, our location has changed, but we are the same people with the same human condition. Disappointment has followed me! I can see now the common denominator of our disappointment is not in the location, it is us.
- Oh Lord, change our hearts, cleanse us of all that has kept us in bondage to discouragement, kept us from You. I Promise You, Lord God, each day I get out of bed, I will kneel before You! Every day I will give you my life, my hopes-dreams and I will start each new day, silently submitted to You.
- You are doing something new in us. I thought it was a change in location, but I can see now, it is a change in our hearts. I can’t figure it out, I don’t understand it, but I feel it - I feel Your Presence, Favor and Guidance strong in us. You brought us here to this new home- unbelievably so- wow- thank you for it!
- I feel Your Presence here. I have no idea what You have for us – somehow I know it is okay- in a way- I am not sure I want to know what you have planned for us next! Jesus, help me to take one day at a time! I pray in this day, I will be a living-holy gift to You. I hope you will be pleased with me in this day and in this day I will serve you alone.
- I want to be a reflection of You, help me not to go the easy way and copy the way of the world, but help me love deeper - love conditionally through disappointment to unconditional devotion.
- You do this for me, day after day! I know I disappoint you at times when I do not act in a right way and give in to my human condition! You desire more from me, you hope for me to live excellently, yet when I don’t measure up, You still love me!
- I know You don’t accept my faults, but you continue to love me with the vision in Your heart that I will one day fulfill your purpose that you have placed in me.
- One thing I know is people will never meet my needs, I have learned this the hard way of being knocked around by powerful disappointments, disillusionments and discouragements- but God-I can by the strength and power of God choose to love people who disappoint me, with all my heart, without reservation – As God does me.
- Jesus, You hold nothing back from me, even when I don’t deserve it- You gave all to me, not after I cleaned myself up, but while I was a dirty sinner! Jesus You give me all every single day, even those days when I don’t measure up to my Christianity, to the excellent example you set for me.
- I hope to serve others, as You served me. Jesus as I struggle with disappointment and discouragement, clean out my inner self of all things me; of what I want for me and leave me with more of the fragrant purposes of the Father God. May it be so! Oh my soul, Bless God-I will bless You Lord from head to toe!
Selah!
Disappointment Comes And
Discouragement Follows!
SELAH! SELAH! SELAH!
Exchange Your Discouragement For Encouragement!
Beautiful Exchange By Hillsong