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HOPE AGAIN

HOPE AGAIN

Theme: Overcoming Disillusionment

Theme: Overcoming Disillusionment

INTRO: MY DISSILLUSIONMENT STORY: Hype over a movie that is suppose to be good but stunk!

INTRO: MY DISSILLUSIONMENT STORY

Disillusionment- a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.

Disillusionment- a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.

Maybe recently or when you were younger you applied for a school that you hoped would help you reach your goals but got rejected.

Maybe recently or when you were younger you applied for a school that you hoped would help you reach your goals but got rejected.

Or you spent a ton of money on a degree and now it seems useless because you can’t find a job in that field.

Or you spent a ton of money on a degree and now it seems useless because you can’t find a job in that field.

Maybe the relationship that seemed like it would last forever fell through.

You committed your heart but they turned away from you.

They disregarded you, and you’ve been asking God why.

Maybe the relationship that seemed like it would last forever fell through.

You committed your heart but they turned away from you.

They disregarded you, and you’ve been asking God why.

Or the ministry you were involved with began to have difficulties or you were wounded by someone you had been pouring your life into.

Or the ministry you were involved with began to have difficulties or you were wounded by someone you had been pouring your life into.

Maybe you were praying for healing for a loved one and you had all the faith in the world, but God did not heal them.

It left you feeling like God had let you down again.

Maybe you were praying for healing for a loved one and you had all the faith in the world, but God did not heal them.

It left you feeling like God had let you down again.

Disillusionment causes us to think in absolutes.

When absolutes of hopelessness form we enter a place of depression.

Disillusionment causes us to think in absolutes.

When absolutes of hopelessness form we enter a place of depression.

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40 million people in the US suffer with depression or an anxiety disorder.

40 million people in the US suffer with depression or anxiety disorder.

We use the word depression to express two kinds of situations.

We use the word depression to express two kinds of situations.

One where you are just gloomy, and the other where you feel like you are in a deep pit with no way to get out.

One where you are just gloomy, and the other where you feel like you are in a deep pit with no way to get out.

When we are depressed we often say that we have, “lost hope” as if hope were something you could lose like your car keys or the television remote.

When we are depressed we often say that we have, “lost hope” as if hope were something you could lose like your car keys or the television remote.

But The reality is that you don’t “lose hope”.

You misplace it.

But the reality is that you don’t “lose hope”.

You misplace it.

What happens is that you place your hope in things that do not guard and protect your hope.

People, circumstances, past mistakes may abuse your hope, mistreat it, neglect it.

What happens is that you place your hope in things that do not guard and protect your hope.

People, circumstances, past mistakes may abuse your hope, mistreat it, neglect it.

When it comes time to take your hope back you find that it doesn’t look like how you left it.

You may even say, “surely this is not the hope I once had”.

When it comes time to take your hope back you find that it doesn’t look like how you left it.

You may even say, “surely this is not the hope I once had”.

It’s not that you don’t know where hope is.

It’s that you have put your hope somewhere it God never intended it to reside.

It’s not that you don’t know where hope is.

It’s that you have put your hope somewhere God never intended it to reside.

Misplaced hope is never working out and eating horribly everyday and expecting to lose weight.

Misplaced hope is never working out and eating horribly everyday and expecting to lose weight.

When you place our hope in people or things or circumstances and those things let you down, you become wounded.

It may be due to neglect, or abandonment, or from trauma from a parent.

When you place our hope in people or things or circumstances and those things let you down, you become wounded.

It may be due to neglect, or abandonment, or from trauma from a parent.

In the middle of the pain you may have made an inner vow: You may have said to yourself:

In the middle of the pain you may have made an inner vow: You may have said to yourself:

“I will not feel anger” Because of the hurt you may have turned off your feelings in order to survive.

“I will not feel anger” Because of the hurt you may have turned off your feelings in order to survive.

This is natural and healthy thing God has programmed in us to help us survive trauma, abuse or harmful situations 

You may have said, “I’m no good” or you’ve believed other people when they’ve said that you are not good.

That you have no worth.

The problem arises when we still operate in this mode of “safety” long after the trauma has passed.

You may have said to yourself, “It will never change.

It will never get better.”

We are “surviving” in a time where God wants us to be thriving

Listen, it’s important for you to understand that depression is not a sign that you lack faith or that God is not near to you, or that when you asked for forgiveness and committed your life to God that you “didn’t really mean it”.

You may have said, “I’m no good” or you’ve believed other people when they’ve said that you are not good.

That you have no worth.

It simply means that you have misplaced your hope.

When hope is placed in God we find the strength we need to move on, to press through, to believe that He is working on our behalf despite all evidence to the contrary.

You may have said to yourself, “It will never change.

It will never get better.”

Listen, it’s important for you to understand that depression is not a sign that you lack faith or that God is not near to you, or that when you asked for forgiveness and committed your life to God that you “didn’t really mean it”.

says, I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him.

Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

It simply means that you have misplaced your hope.

You may say, but I placed my hope in God.

But the reality is that you placed your hope in God until...

Here is something you need to hear.

You can be a strong and mature believer and still experience deep moments of despair.

When hope is placed in God we find the strength we need to move on, to press through, to believe that He is working on our behalf despite all evidence to the contrary.

says, I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him.

Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

tells us of the prophet Elijah’s great success story.

Some of you know this story.

You may say, but I placed my hope in God.

But the reality is that you placed your hope in God until...

He had confronted an entire nation of pagans in A contest between Baal and God.

Two altars, two bulls, and the question of who would consume the sacrifice.

Here is something you need to hear.

You can be a strong and mature believer and still experience deep moments of despair.

450 prophets of Baal were frustrated and humiliated

Turn to in your bibles

Baal could not, but the God of Israel consumed the sacrifice.

The prophets of Baal were executed