WEBVTT - When Fear Keeps You From Hope (The Basin) 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.280 Hey, I'm coming to you now from the base, and 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:08.440 this is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:11.440 for you to break it down a little more, to 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:14.000 take it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:23.119 overflow message. Let me know, let's go. You know, disappointment 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:26.520 can be a disease. It can eat away our ability 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:33.600 to dream, our ability to hope, and hope deferred makes 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.640 the heart sick, one proverb, says the King James version. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:44.040 And when you think about the disease of disappointment is misleading, 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:49.879 meaning that you know, there's never a way that a 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.560 disease in my body is a good thing. We don't 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:57.040 ever think of that in a positive sense. Disappointment, while 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:01.760 it's not a positive thing to feel or experience, it is, 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:11.720 in its own way, the necessary flip side of having hope. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.640 If you don't hope, you can't be disappointed. If you 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:23.039 never are willing to risk disappointment, you can't hope. And man, 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:28.280 and my preaching to myself today, because look, I've spent 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:32.480 large chunks of my adult life thinking that I could 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:39.080 figure out a strategy to avoid disappointment and still get 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.320 the things I hope to have. Whether that's with people. Man, 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.840 they let me down, I'm not going to reach out 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:49.560 to them because these last three times they let me down, 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.560 I'm not going to invest in that relationship because look, man, 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.440 what did that get me with this person over here? 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.720 Or what did that get me last time that I 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.160 encouraged them. I'm not saying anything this time. I'm not 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.760 going out of my way. It's embarrassing to admit that. 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.640 But even in some of the goals that I've reached 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.520 that were disappointing, or the things that I tried to 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.519 achieve and I didn't get the success that I wanted 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:18.240 and I was disappointed, I developed a strategy and it 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.480 was a secret strategy. I never came out and said, hey, 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.480 I'm going to set out to avoid disappointment, but I 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.880 definitely did that in some major ways in my life. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.320 Still a tempted to do it sometimes, like not going 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.320 to go for it, not going to initiate it because 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.119 what if it doesn't work out. All of these things 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:41.880 are familiar to us. But you disappointment, hope, defer, a 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.000 dream that doesn't come to past, things that don't work 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:50.680 out the way you wanted, disillusionment, wishing life would be 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.160 one way and experiencing it another way. Man, if you 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.600 don't learn how to recognize that stuff and check it 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.680 and treat it and deal with it, process that in 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.480 a good way that honors God and involves him and 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.080 brings in his spirit to help you interpret it, it 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:14.639 will spread. That unchecked disappointment will spread. It'll spread into 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:19.320 your language, It'll spread into your way of thinking. You know, 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:23.800 it'll spread into sometimes even subconsciously, the way that you 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:28.480 approach your day, way you carry yourself, the way you 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.960 treat your body, Like, what's the point in taking care 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:35.040 of yourself? Doesn't ever work out for you anyway you 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:42.280 tried that before. So disappointment is definitely a disease if 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.160 left unchecked, but if treated, I actually think it can 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.840 be one of the things that God can use to 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:53.200 develop our trust in him, because through being disappointed that's 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.280 how God moves us on sometimes, or through being disapp 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.960 pointed in something, that's how we see that it was 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.600 empty to begin with. All Right, So, as I teach 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:07.080 this today about disappointment, and I think about, well, if 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.040 we're going to experience disappointment, if we hope, there's no 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.800 there's no potential for hope. Without the risk of disappointment. 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.160 That's my basic premise here. There is no put put 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.200 that down somewhere, write that down somewhere. There is no 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:28.320 potential for hope without the risk of disappointment. I might 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:32.080 even need to say it more strongly than that. There 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:38.359 is no potential for glory without potential disappointment. And I 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.760 don't mean glory for just your own self, your own sake, like, oh, 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:47.119 I want glory, but man, you know, if you don't 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.160 show up for the race, you can't win it. If 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.400 you don't show up for the fight, there's no crown. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.920 If you don't engage in the struggle, there is no 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:05.279 there is no victory. And to risk disappointment, to risk 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.599 that it's gonna feel like it was all for nothing, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.279 to risk that you're going to lose the money, or 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.359 to risk that you're gonna waste your time, or to 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.800 risk that it's going to be awkward. That's the part 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:18.880 of it what I have found in my life that 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.800 made me want to make this video about the antidote. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.800 Antidote maybe good if I knew how to say the 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.960 words that I'm teaching about. But again, that's what this 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:36.880 space is for the antidote to disappointment is not to 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:44.640 avoid situations that are potentially disappointing. That's going to guarantee 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.960 a deeper disappointment in the end. You know that, right, 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.040 That's gonna guarantee that not only are you disappointed in 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.040 an event, but you're disappointed in the entire trajectory and 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:58.000 outcome of your life. That's what that's gonna do. If 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:02.680 you try to avoid disappointment, like isolate yourself and never 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.440 play unless you know you can win, and never do 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.479 anything unless you know somebody's going to do it back 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.960 for you. If reciprocation is the entry price for any 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.240 good deed that you do, or you have to have 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.040 the instant gratification and validation of everything that you put 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:24.400 your heart into working or being accepted or applauded, that 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:32.599 that in itself is a recipe for resentment later in 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.400 your life looking back, regret and resentment. Man, I would 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:41.000 rather have doses of disappointment along the way than the 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:47.760 disease of resentment and regret in the end. I would 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:52.120 rather have doses of disappointment along the way. Now I'm 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.360 mixing my metaphor here, so I'm not sure where I'm 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:59.960 going with this either, but work with me. I started 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.919 out saying, what's the antidote to disappointment? But now I 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:08.080 want to talk about how there are doses of disappointment 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.679 that that we have to be willing to go through 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.840 in order to avoid ending our life in a state 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.320 of regret or resentment. There are moments that we have 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:24.600 to push through a rejection to get to a place 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:31.880 where we are willing to risk so that we can 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:39.200 have true connection and love in our lives. Yeah, and 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.320 to me, the key is like how they say, don't 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:48.320 put all your eggs in one basket. I think that 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:52.800 the anti disappointment is don't put all your hopes in 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.560 one outcome. That's what the saying means. Don't put all 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.000 your eggs in one basket. That's what a money manager 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.680 would tell you, Diverse, don't just put your money over 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.240 here in US stocks. Put them in international stocks, not 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.040 just in small cap large cap, and have some with 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.040 bonds and fifteen percent here and twenty percent there and 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:17.520 your real estate. A good financial advisor is not going 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.080 to tell you I got a hot tip from my 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.520 brother about what Tesla's doing today. Nah, unless you know 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.640 what you're doing, most of us. We have to diversify. Now, 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:29.560 I'm not here to get financial wisdom, but in spiritual terms, 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:35.719 diversification of your hopes is really important as an antidote 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:44.880 to disappointment. In order to avoid being ultimately devastated by 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.760 the disappointments of life, you got to have a lot 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.480 of things going at once. And that does mean that 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.080 if you put all your hope on any one thing 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:59.080 other than God, other than Jesus, is coming down eventually. 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.120 If it's a number on a scale that you want 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.360 to reach, if it is an amount that you want 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.440 to reach in your financial life this year or in 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.960 ten years, which I think, those things are great as 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.400 motivators to move and to incorporate the things you want 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.320 in your life to feel progressed. Right, But those things 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:22.120 can't be God, because Paul says in Romans five, we 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.480 rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. That 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:30.160 does not disappoint. That's what doesn't disappoint. Now, if my 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.440 hope is man, God's going to use this, God's gonna 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.679 get me through this, God is working in this, I'm 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:40.000 learning from this, then that's very different. Then I must 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.880 have this, I must do that, it must be this 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:47.080 way to Every time I've done that, it's backfired. Every 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.120 time that I put all my hopes on one goal, 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.400 one way of doing things, one sermon. Oh, this is 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.640 gonna be the best ever, one song, one book. Man, 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.080 I promise you that even if that thing does well, well, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.680 then what's the next one going to be? So as 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:08.439 I'm making things, creating things, ministering things, developing things, it's 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:12.000 important that I diversify. It's important that if one of 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.119 my friends is struggling in their life, I have encouragement 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.480 to give them right because I have somebody else that 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:22.320 can encourage me. I can't just be locked into one 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.559 person liking me. What if they're having a bad day. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.080 I can't just be locked into one person noticing me. 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:31.480 What if they're distracted by their own drama. So this 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:33.920 is what I wanted to say, and I've been kind 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:35.800 of feeling my way through it, just to work this 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.240 idea out and maybe we can straighten it out together. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.560 Maybe this will have more clarity as we wrap around it. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:49.320 But the antidote to disappointment is diversification. For me. That 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.480 means every time I release one sermon and preach it, 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.400 I'm already working on another one so that if this 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.480 one feels a little disappointing, the next one is coming. Right. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.640 Even as we prepare to release songs, we're releasing songs 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.200 that I'm excited about here over the next few weeks 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:10.600 and months. Elevation worship dot Com. Today's post sponsored by 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:15.920 Elevation Worship dot Com. Even as we're getting ready to 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.560 release those, I want to be working on some other ones. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.480 And I am I am. I got some that are 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.760 going to Spotify and Apple Music. I got some that 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.520 are on my phone. Why because I need to know 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.240 that if these songs just we're meant to live in church, 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:33.880 or we're meant to live in the hearts of those 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.920 who wrote them and experience them together, then that's going 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.960 to be okay. Because there's more on the way. That's 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.760 the spirit I want you to get right now. That's okay. 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:49.120 There's more on the way. Say it out loud, that's okay. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.240 There's more on the way. There's another one on the way. 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:59.200 That's okay. There's more on the way. And lose a 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.920 little money. That's okay. I don't like it. I'm not 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:03.880 gonna try to lose money, but there's more on the way. 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.680 God is my supplier. That's okay. You know that person 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:11.559 over there, they're moving, They're going to Argentina. They're not 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.960 going to be in your life anymore. Oh well, bless them. 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:15.439 I'm gonna miss them so much. I throw them a 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.440 farewell party. I keep up with them some. But man, 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:22.520 I'm not building my life around any one person. And 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.000 that's okay. Doesn't take the pain out of when people 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.440 leave your life. But they don't like you, that's okay. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:28.960 There's people that do like me on the way. I 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.760 have to tell myself that all the time because I 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.800 know there's people who don't really like my ministry. That's okay. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.000 There's more on the way. There's people coming that need help, 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.360 and they'll be able to receive what Jesus wants to 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.400 speak through me. That's okay. There's more on the way. 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.040 And when you know, when Jesus shows up in a situation, 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:51.720 there's more on the way. You know that he's very 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:57.760 capable of turning ceremonial washing jars into wine, big old, 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:02.120 big old wine glasses wine. You know he can. He can. 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.240 He can turn a common, ordinary object into something that 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.200 holds something very special. He can transform the wine while 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.120 it moves across the room. That's okay. There's more on 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.080 the way. Oh we're out of wine. Oh we're out 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:18.040 of strength. Oh we're out of ideas. That's okay, there's 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.480 more on the way. And that's very different than having 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.240 an expectation that you know, this one source that's not 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:29.160 God is going to meet my needs, this one job, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:40.280 this one stream, this one relationship. Diversify. Divine diversification is 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:44.320 what I'm talking about. Knowing that if the brook dries up, 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.160 God's got a widow and Zeraphat, and if you will 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.760 meet the next need that God put in front of you. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.560 This is the story of Elijah. I know you were 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.959 already there with me, but just in case you weren't tracking. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.720 When you get there and you give her the instruction 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.640 so that her family can be fed through the famine, 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.200 I'm gonna meet your needs to That's okay. The brook 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.920 dried up, there's more on the way. And I feel 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:16.240 that the divine strategy or antidote for disappointment is diversification. 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.720 That you know that the Lord has lunches in the 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.520 hands of little boys, even if it's a remote place 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.000 and it's getting late and the crowds won't go away. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:33.000 That's okay. There's more on the way. That's okay. There's 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.880 more on the way, that mentality, that spirit, not because 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.280 I'm so good, but because God is within me and 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.760 there are rivers of living water that flow from me. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:46.800 That's okay. There's more on the way. Easy to say, 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.520 harder to live. So let's live it a little bit today. 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.520 I'm not talking about not getting your sight set and 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.800 focusing on something. Yesterday I talked about focusing. I believe 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.080 in focusing. I believe in setting goals and targets. I 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.080 believe in insisting on reaching them and not just watering 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.320 down what you want to match what you think you 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.120 can do. But I also believe that you have to 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.560 leave room in there so that God is not in 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.400 this box. For God to do what he wants to 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.240 do and use you how he wants to use you, 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.920 and bring about what he wants to bring about. Hey, 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.320 I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.440 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.040 get you all of these new messages as soon as 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.880 they're available. I also want to take a moment and 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:32.720 thank all of you who are a part of Elevation. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.560 Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.680 just share these messages, it's because of you that we're 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.640 able to reach people all around the world. 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