Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the base, and
Speaker 1: this is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just
Speaker 1: for you to break it down a little more, to
Speaker 1: take it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this
Speaker 1: overflow message. Let me know, let's go. You know, disappointment
Speaker 1: can be a disease. It can eat away our ability
Speaker 1: to dream, our ability to hope, and hope deferred makes
Speaker 1: the heart sick, one proverb, says the King James version.
Speaker 1: And when you think about the disease of disappointment is misleading,
Speaker 1: meaning that you know, there's never a way that a
Speaker 1: disease in my body is a good thing. We don't
Speaker 1: ever think of that in a positive sense. Disappointment, while
Speaker 1: it's not a positive thing to feel or experience, it is,
Speaker 1: in its own way, the necessary flip side of having hope.
Speaker 1: If you don't hope, you can't be disappointed. If you
Speaker 1: never are willing to risk disappointment, you can't hope. And man,
Speaker 1: and my preaching to myself today, because look, I've spent
Speaker 1: large chunks of my adult life thinking that I could
Speaker 1: figure out a strategy to avoid disappointment and still get
Speaker 1: the things I hope to have. Whether that's with people. Man,
Speaker 1: they let me down, I'm not going to reach out
Speaker 1: to them because these last three times they let me down,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to invest in that relationship because look, man,
Speaker 1: what did that get me with this person over here?
Speaker 1: Or what did that get me last time that I
Speaker 1: encouraged them. I'm not saying anything this time. I'm not
Speaker 1: going out of my way. It's embarrassing to admit that.
Speaker 1: But even in some of the goals that I've reached
Speaker 1: that were disappointing, or the things that I tried to
Speaker 1: achieve and I didn't get the success that I wanted
Speaker 1: and I was disappointed, I developed a strategy and it
Speaker 1: was a secret strategy. I never came out and said, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm going to set out to avoid disappointment, but I
Speaker 1: definitely did that in some major ways in my life.
Speaker 1: Still a tempted to do it sometimes, like not going
Speaker 1: to go for it, not going to initiate it because
Speaker 1: what if it doesn't work out. All of these things
Speaker 1: are familiar to us. But you disappointment, hope, defer, a
Speaker 1: dream that doesn't come to past, things that don't work
Speaker 1: out the way you wanted, disillusionment, wishing life would be
Speaker 1: one way and experiencing it another way. Man, if you
Speaker 1: don't learn how to recognize that stuff and check it
Speaker 1: and treat it and deal with it, process that in
Speaker 1: a good way that honors God and involves him and
Speaker 1: brings in his spirit to help you interpret it, it
Speaker 1: will spread. That unchecked disappointment will spread. It'll spread into
Speaker 1: your language, It'll spread into your way of thinking. You know,
Speaker 1: it'll spread into sometimes even subconsciously, the way that you
Speaker 1: approach your day, way you carry yourself, the way you
Speaker 1: treat your body, Like, what's the point in taking care
Speaker 1: of yourself? Doesn't ever work out for you anyway you
Speaker 1: tried that before. So disappointment is definitely a disease if
Speaker 1: left unchecked, but if treated, I actually think it can
Speaker 1: be one of the things that God can use to
Speaker 1: develop our trust in him, because through being disappointed that's
Speaker 1: how God moves us on sometimes, or through being disapp
Speaker 1: pointed in something, that's how we see that it was
Speaker 1: empty to begin with. All Right, So, as I teach
Speaker 1: this today about disappointment, and I think about, well, if
Speaker 1: we're going to experience disappointment, if we hope, there's no
Speaker 1: there's no potential for hope. Without the risk of disappointment.
Speaker 1: That's my basic premise here. There is no put put
Speaker 1: that down somewhere, write that down somewhere. There is no
Speaker 1: potential for hope without the risk of disappointment. I might
Speaker 1: even need to say it more strongly than that. There
Speaker 1: is no potential for glory without potential disappointment. And I
Speaker 1: don't mean glory for just your own self, your own sake, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want glory, but man, you know, if you don't
Speaker 1: show up for the race, you can't win it. If
Speaker 1: you don't show up for the fight, there's no crown.
Speaker 1: If you don't engage in the struggle, there is no
Speaker 1: there is no victory. And to risk disappointment, to risk
Speaker 1: that it's gonna feel like it was all for nothing,
Speaker 1: to risk that you're going to lose the money, or
Speaker 1: to risk that you're gonna waste your time, or to
Speaker 1: risk that it's going to be awkward. That's the part
Speaker 1: of it what I have found in my life that
Speaker 1: made me want to make this video about the antidote.
Speaker 1: Antidote maybe good if I knew how to say the
Speaker 1: words that I'm teaching about. But again, that's what this
Speaker 1: space is for the antidote to disappointment is not to
Speaker 1: avoid situations that are potentially disappointing. That's going to guarantee
Speaker 1: a deeper disappointment in the end. You know that, right,
Speaker 1: That's gonna guarantee that not only are you disappointed in
Speaker 1: an event, but you're disappointed in the entire trajectory and
Speaker 1: outcome of your life. That's what that's gonna do. If
Speaker 1: you try to avoid disappointment, like isolate yourself and never
Speaker 1: play unless you know you can win, and never do
Speaker 1: anything unless you know somebody's going to do it back
Speaker 1: for you. If reciprocation is the entry price for any
Speaker 1: good deed that you do, or you have to have
Speaker 1: the instant gratification and validation of everything that you put
Speaker 1: your heart into working or being accepted or applauded, that
Speaker 1: that in itself is a recipe for resentment later in
Speaker 1: your life looking back, regret and resentment. Man, I would
Speaker 1: rather have doses of disappointment along the way than the
Speaker 1: disease of resentment and regret in the end. I would
Speaker 1: rather have doses of disappointment along the way. Now I'm
Speaker 1: mixing my metaphor here, so I'm not sure where I'm
Speaker 1: going with this either, but work with me. I started
Speaker 1: out saying, what's the antidote to disappointment? But now I
Speaker 1: want to talk about how there are doses of disappointment
Speaker 1: that that we have to be willing to go through
Speaker 1: in order to avoid ending our life in a state
Speaker 1: of regret or resentment. There are moments that we have
Speaker 1: to push through a rejection to get to a place
Speaker 1: where we are willing to risk so that we can
Speaker 1: have true connection and love in our lives. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: to me, the key is like how they say, don't
Speaker 1: put all your eggs in one basket. I think that
Speaker 1: the anti disappointment is don't put all your hopes in
Speaker 1: one outcome. That's what the saying means. Don't put all
Speaker 1: your eggs in one basket. That's what a money manager
Speaker 1: would tell you, Diverse, don't just put your money over
Speaker 1: here in US stocks. Put them in international stocks, not
Speaker 1: just in small cap large cap, and have some with
Speaker 1: bonds and fifteen percent here and twenty percent there and
Speaker 1: your real estate. A good financial advisor is not going
Speaker 1: to tell you I got a hot tip from my
Speaker 1: brother about what Tesla's doing today. Nah, unless you know
Speaker 1: what you're doing, most of us. We have to diversify. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not here to get financial wisdom, but in spiritual terms,
Speaker 1: diversification of your hopes is really important as an antidote
Speaker 1: to disappointment. In order to avoid being ultimately devastated by
Speaker 1: the disappointments of life, you got to have a lot
Speaker 1: of things going at once. And that does mean that
Speaker 1: if you put all your hope on any one thing
Speaker 1: other than God, other than Jesus, is coming down eventually.
Speaker 1: If it's a number on a scale that you want
Speaker 1: to reach, if it is an amount that you want
Speaker 1: to reach in your financial life this year or in
Speaker 1: ten years, which I think, those things are great as
Speaker 1: motivators to move and to incorporate the things you want
Speaker 1: in your life to feel progressed. Right, But those things
Speaker 1: can't be God, because Paul says in Romans five, we
Speaker 1: rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. That
Speaker 1: does not disappoint. That's what doesn't disappoint. Now, if my
Speaker 1: hope is man, God's going to use this, God's gonna
Speaker 1: get me through this, God is working in this, I'm
Speaker 1: learning from this, then that's very different. Then I must
Speaker 1: have this, I must do that, it must be this
Speaker 1: way to Every time I've done that, it's backfired. Every
Speaker 1: time that I put all my hopes on one goal,
Speaker 1: one way of doing things, one sermon. Oh, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be the best ever, one song, one book. Man,
Speaker 1: I promise you that even if that thing does well, well,
Speaker 1: then what's the next one going to be? So as
Speaker 1: I'm making things, creating things, ministering things, developing things, it's
Speaker 1: important that I diversify. It's important that if one of
Speaker 1: my friends is struggling in their life, I have encouragement
Speaker 1: to give them right because I have somebody else that
Speaker 1: can encourage me. I can't just be locked into one
Speaker 1: person liking me. What if they're having a bad day.
Speaker 1: I can't just be locked into one person noticing me.
Speaker 1: What if they're distracted by their own drama. So this
Speaker 1: is what I wanted to say, and I've been kind
Speaker 1: of feeling my way through it, just to work this
Speaker 1: idea out and maybe we can straighten it out together.
Speaker 1: Maybe this will have more clarity as we wrap around it.
Speaker 1: But the antidote to disappointment is diversification. For me. That
Speaker 1: means every time I release one sermon and preach it,
Speaker 1: I'm already working on another one so that if this
Speaker 1: one feels a little disappointing, the next one is coming. Right.
Speaker 1: Even as we prepare to release songs, we're releasing songs
Speaker 1: that I'm excited about here over the next few weeks
Speaker 1: and months. Elevation worship dot Com. Today's post sponsored by
Speaker 1: Elevation Worship dot Com. Even as we're getting ready to
Speaker 1: release those, I want to be working on some other ones.
Speaker 1: And I am I am. I got some that are
Speaker 1: going to Spotify and Apple Music. I got some that
Speaker 1: are on my phone. Why because I need to know
Speaker 1: that if these songs just we're meant to live in church,
Speaker 1: or we're meant to live in the hearts of those
Speaker 1: who wrote them and experience them together, then that's going
Speaker 1: to be okay. Because there's more on the way. That's
Speaker 1: the spirit I want you to get right now. That's okay.
Speaker 1: There's more on the way. Say it out loud, that's okay.
Speaker 1: There's more on the way. There's another one on the way.
Speaker 1: That's okay. There's more on the way. And lose a
Speaker 1: little money. That's okay. I don't like it. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna try to lose money, but there's more on the way.
Speaker 1: God is my supplier. That's okay. You know that person
Speaker 1: over there, they're moving, They're going to Argentina. They're not
Speaker 1: going to be in your life anymore. Oh well, bless them.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss them so much. I throw them a
Speaker 1: farewell party. I keep up with them some. But man,
Speaker 1: I'm not building my life around any one person. And
Speaker 1: that's okay. Doesn't take the pain out of when people
Speaker 1: leave your life. But they don't like you, that's okay.
Speaker 1: There's people that do like me on the way. I
Speaker 1: have to tell myself that all the time because I
Speaker 1: know there's people who don't really like my ministry. That's okay.
Speaker 1: There's more on the way. There's people coming that need help,
Speaker 1: and they'll be able to receive what Jesus wants to
Speaker 1: speak through me. That's okay. There's more on the way.
Speaker 1: And when you know, when Jesus shows up in a situation,
Speaker 1: there's more on the way. You know that he's very
Speaker 1: capable of turning ceremonial washing jars into wine, big old,
Speaker 1: big old wine glasses wine. You know he can. He can.
Speaker 1: He can turn a common, ordinary object into something that
Speaker 1: holds something very special. He can transform the wine while
Speaker 1: it moves across the room. That's okay. There's more on
Speaker 1: the way. Oh we're out of wine. Oh we're out
Speaker 1: of strength. Oh we're out of ideas. That's okay, there's
Speaker 1: more on the way. And that's very different than having
Speaker 1: an expectation that you know, this one source that's not
Speaker 1: God is going to meet my needs, this one job,
Speaker 1: this one stream, this one relationship. Diversify. Divine diversification is
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Knowing that if the brook dries up,
Speaker 1: God's got a widow and Zeraphat, and if you will
Speaker 1: meet the next need that God put in front of you.
Speaker 1: This is the story of Elijah. I know you were
Speaker 1: already there with me, but just in case you weren't tracking.
Speaker 1: When you get there and you give her the instruction
Speaker 1: so that her family can be fed through the famine,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna meet your needs to That's okay. The brook
Speaker 1: dried up, there's more on the way. And I feel
Speaker 1: that the divine strategy or antidote for disappointment is diversification.
Speaker 1: That you know that the Lord has lunches in the
Speaker 1: hands of little boys, even if it's a remote place
Speaker 1: and it's getting late and the crowds won't go away.
Speaker 1: That's okay. There's more on the way. That's okay. There's
Speaker 1: more on the way, that mentality, that spirit, not because
Speaker 1: I'm so good, but because God is within me and
Speaker 1: there are rivers of living water that flow from me.
Speaker 1: That's okay. There's more on the way. Easy to say,
Speaker 1: harder to live. So let's live it a little bit today.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about not getting your sight set and
Speaker 1: focusing on something. Yesterday I talked about focusing. I believe
Speaker 1: in focusing. I believe in setting goals and targets. I
Speaker 1: believe in insisting on reaching them and not just watering
Speaker 1: down what you want to match what you think you
Speaker 1: can do. But I also believe that you have to
Speaker 1: leave room in there so that God is not in
Speaker 1: this box. For God to do what he wants to
Speaker 1: do and use you how he wants to use you,
Speaker 1: and bring about what he wants to bring about. Hey,
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