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WHEN SADNESS INVADE THE HEART

INTRODUCTION:

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A PLACE WHERE YOUR HEART WAS OVERWHELM WITH SADNESS, NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TRIED TO SHAKE IT, THE PRESSURE BECAME UNBEARABLE.

SADNESS HAPPEN WHEN THE HEART HAS BEEN BROKEN , AND WHEN THE HEART HAS BEEN BROKEN IT’S HARD FOR PEOPLE TO TRUST OTHER’S.

THIS WHAT HAPPEN TO THE DISCIPLES WHEN JESUS DEPARTED FROM THEE EARTH.

THERE ARE 3 THINGS THAT CAN CAUSE SADNESS TO INVADE THE HEART?

1. DISTRESS

2. DESPAIR

3. DISAPPOINTMENT

A. DISTRESS

JOHN 14:1 “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.”

DISTRESS BEGAN IN THE HEART OF THE DISCIPLES .

DISTRESS MEANS TO BE AFFLICTED WITH PAIN OR ANGUISH APPLIED TO THE BODY OR THE MIND.

I BELIEVE MANY OF US DO NOT PREPARE OURSELVES FOR DEPARTURE.

SOME OF US IT IS HARD FOR US TO GO ON WITH OUR LIVES WHEN SOMEONE CLOSE TO US LEAVE US. IT IS THE SAME WAY IN A RELATIONSHIP, WE BECOME SO DEPENDENT ON SOMEONE ELSE IN THE RELATIONSHIP THAT IF THEY ARE NO LONGER AROUND, WE DON’T FEEL LIKE WE CAN MOVE ON.

THE ROOT OF DISTRESS IS CIRCUMSTANCES THAT CAUSES ANXIETY OR HARDSHIP.

JESUS SAID LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED: JESUS SAID DON’T ALLOW YOUR HEART TO BECOME OVERWHELM WITHIN YOU.

JOHN 12:27 “Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.”

THE ONE THING THAT WILL HAPPEN IN EVERYONE’S LIFE , THEY WILL LEAVE THIS EARTH ONE DAY, BUT IF YOU BELIEVETH ON JESUS YOU SHALL NEVER DIE.

B. DESPAIR HAPPENS WHEN YOU LACK TRUST OR YOU STRUGGLE WITH UNBELIEF. YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO DISBELIEVE GOD AND HIS MANY PROMISES TO DELIVER AND PROVIDE.

THE DISCIPLES FORGOT WHAT JESUS HAVE DONE FOR THEM AND HOW HE SUPPLIED EVERY NEED THEY STAND IN NEED OF OR HOW MANY MANY TRIALS HE HAVE SEEM THEM THROUGH.

WE ARE THE SAME WAY, WHEN THINGS ARE NOT GOING OUR WAY WE BECOME FRUSTRATED WITH GOD BECAUSE THINGS ARE NOT TURNING OUT THE WAY WE WANTED IT TO. WE LOSE HOPE AND FAINT IN THE PROCESS.

1 PETER 1:21 “who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.”

C. DISAPPOINTMENT IS UNHAPPINESS FROM THE FAILURE OF SOMETHING HOPED FOR OR EXPECTED TO HAPPEN.

THE THING THAT CAN CAUSE SADNESS TO INVADE YOUR HEART IS WHEN YOU FAIL TO PLEASE GOD.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE IN YOUR HUMAN NATURE TO FOLLOW GOD WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO IS YOUR COMFORTER, YOUR TEACHER AND GUIDE.

WHAT THE DISCIPLES FAILED TO DO WAS TRUST THAT GOD WOULD NEVER ABANDON THEM. THEY KNEW THE WAY , AND SAW THE WAY BUT SOMEWHERE ON THEIR CHRISTIAN JOURNEY THEY FORGOT THE WAY. THE SAME WAY WITH US IF WE LOSE SIGHT OF GOD , WE BECOME DISAPPPOINTED IN OURSELVES AND BEGAN DOUBT WHAT GOD CAN DO THROUGH US.

BUT IF WE TRUST GOD IT OPEN OUR HEARTS TO HIS TRUTHS AND HIS PROMISES.

JOHN 14:12 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”