Getting Past A Disappointment

November 23, 2015
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GETTING PAST A DISAPPOINTMENT
by Pastor Richard Tow
October 4, 2015
Text: Exodus 5:22-23

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Description: Disappointment is a feeling of sadness or displeasure caused by non fulfillment of one’s hopes or expectations. The way we process disappointment can define our future. Therefore, it’s important to do so in a healthy way. This message looks at the way people in Scripture processed disappointment and observes the impact on their lives. Then Pastor Richard gives five keys to getting past a disappointment and moving forward in your life.

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OUTLINE

      Text: Exodus 5:22-23.

“So Moses returned to the LORD and said, ‘Lord, why have You brought trouble on this
people? Why is it You have sent me? 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your
name, he has done evil to this people; neither have You delivered Your people at all.’

         I. Moses has just experienced a major disappointment.
                       (Life is not going the way he thought it would!)

  1. Context of the prayer
  2. Content of the prayer> Two Questions:
    (1) Lord, why have You brought trouble on this people?
    (2) Why is it You have sent me?
     > Two Statements:
    (1) For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done evil to this people
         (2) neither have You delivered Your people at all

II. What people do in a time of disappointment can define their future.

1. People who would not darken doors of a church because of past disappointments.

2. When we experience a disappointment, we are particularly vulnerable to making a bad
decision.
3. Issue is not whether disappointment will come, but how we will respond to it.
III. How do we get passed a disappointment?

  1. We go to God with the disappointment.
  2. We are honest with God about how we feel.
  3. We remember that delay is not necessarily denial.
  4. We trust God’s goodness and wisdom.
  5. We continue in well-doing regardless of what we see or feel.

QUESTIONS

  1. Can you recall a time when God brought you through a significant disappointment?
    What did you do to get through it?
  1. What have you learned from Moses’ response to the disappointment?
    What have you learned from his prayer?
  1. Do you think that our response to a major disappointment can define our future?
    In what way? How did it define the future of people like Cain, Abraham, Joseph, the nation
    of Israel in their wilderness journey, David, etc.?
  1. Are you processing a disappointment in your life now? Would you like prayer concerning
    that?

 

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