4 Reasons God Is Disappointing You
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- What does the Bible say about being disappointed? Is it a sin to be disappointed with God? How can a Christian deal with disappointment according to the Bible? By studying Luke 10:38-42, we can discover at least 4 reasons for disappointment and solutions to those issues.
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Summary:
1. Because you have attached your personal expectations to your faithful actions (you think God should give you what you long for as you were faithful).
2. Because other people don't do what you expect.
3. Because you are trying to control God. (Instead, focus on being faithful, but let God be God.)
4. Because God is disciplining you and refocusing you onto Himself.
Nice summary!
So God is telling you to obey him so he can never bless with you good things and bless the ones that dont obey him. Got it.
@@clayton4917 Actually this is a point. I want to obey and follow and I do but I am slowly losing my faith and belief that God is good. I have only ever wanted love and acceptance. I never got it from my parents or anyone else. I would have never thought God was like that. I can't even enjoy a life of sin now since I feel convicted.....so I follow a God who seems to not care about me and it is one of the thoughts that is most on my mind.
@@duncanevyis it possible that you have made the love you seek an idol? God wishes to be first in your heart. "Thou shall have no other gods before me". With that said, I understand wanting love. It can be disapointing not finding it. If you have watched the whole video the point was made, we need to have faith that God can provide that for us, but be ok if it doesn't come as we thought it should. Prayers for faith and you to find what you need.
@@PatriciaSantos-pm8gk I still try my best to follow God. I just don't like him anymore. It is the same as with my father. He cared and interacted with me very little while growing up unless I was in trouble or had the same interests as he did. Now at 51 I try to take care of him but I don't like him and wonder if I will even care when he is gone. If God is threatened by a human woman who is helping me fulfill the natural desires that HE has created me with then I really don't know what to think of Him. I am tired of the "idol" saying. I wonder if every one of the millions of Christians who have found love are putting God first. I'm just sick of it. I have spent 14 years trying to find a person who meets Christian standards and mine to love and 51 years trying to feel wanted and accepted. I am trying my best not to leave the faith but I can't force myself to be zealous about a God who seems not to care about me. It is difficult.
It's hard to not feel disappointed. I applied for a job in a field that I believed God was training me for, but suddenly the door closed, and now I don't know what to do and it feels like God is being silent, as if I did something to screw up and disappointed Him...
I know how you feel. I went through training for nine months for a job that I thought the Lord wanted me to do, but it didn't happen.
are you unaware we are living in the end times and are about to be raptured OFF the earth?
@@Lauren-vd4qe No, I am aware that time grows short. However, I remain convinced that until it happens I must be about His business, as Paul admonished the Thessalonians in his second letter to them.
@@shinigamimiroku3723 be about his business sure. but i would not get hung up about not having a certain job. I once was frustrated that God wd not give me a certain job. so i demanded that He give me that job, so He did. within a week I wished i never took that job; and within a month i quit. was a good lesson!
the book of James is always helpful
YES!! I'M HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED IN GOD!!
so please pray for me 💔
Believe in something you can prove is real. Yourself!
I've been trying to help a brother who lost his family, his house, and now car... Pray for Cory Stevens
God bless
how? financial disaster?
Oh this is speaking right to me! I've been a Martha most of my life! It has only been more recently that I have been learning to balance with being more like Mary! I have just been turning my expectations over to God. I appreciate you pointing out the controlling nature of Martha trying to control the Son of God and the outcome of a given situation! The good thing is that The Lord gives us another chance to learn from our mistakes! The Lord always has something better than we have in mind. Praise Jesus 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Amen & we can Absolutely Surrender too, knowing that HE is in complete control, always 🤲
Amen Kristy! He corrects us in love and helps us keeping growing!
Expect nothing = no disappointment.
Where is faith if we do that?
I commented on your last video. I talked about how my ex girlfriend and I broke up 9 months ago, and that shes already engaged to her new man.
This video also applies. Ive wanted God to do what I WANTED, instead of humbling myself before the Lord and allowing His will to be done. I set myself up for disappointment thinking that God would bring her back to me, instead of just letting it all go and being faithful Gods gonna provide for me.
Thanks for these videos Mark. They really do apply.
So glad the content has been useful to you
If you want lack, adversity, frustration, sexual continence, silent treatment, second, third best, having to settle for crumbs, unwarranted hope, mind games, waiting endlessly for favorable outcomes, which may or may not happen, God is your best option. He never fails to deliver on disappointments. Oh and he expects constant praise, worship and gratitude!😅
HOWEVER, if God's glory or perfect happiness hinged upon OUR happiness and healing, God would miraculously heal us *BEFORE* we even ask him! It's all about him, his will, his glory, his plans and schemes etc.
This’s on point, waiting almost three years for my husband to be here with me….. Everything “Documentaries Qualified”so close yet so far🤦🏾But This Word came before me to Help me get back in order( Lord I repent) to get back Focus…. God’s in Control 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
you want your husband back but he doesnt want to come back?
@@Lauren-vd4qe no honey, U missing every point…. Documentarily Qualified. If U don’t understand, look it up and pray for us. If U R sincere
God bless as you follow the Lord
This was so helpful. Now I know how to approach God with my needs and wants.
Amen! So glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much! I was almost losing hopes and becoming grumbling and fearful because of the outcomes that I got instantly. I feel like God is talking right to me through your timely video.
So glad it was useful!
YOU ARE THE SPIRITUAL GOAT!!!! May GOD continue to use you in helping people along their Christian journey.
All glory to God! So glad you are enjoying the content!
I'm definitely guilty of being self-righteous instead of being humble before God. I believe praying in the spirit is the best way to stay humble before the Lord. It's hard to go wrong when you pray God's will.
Amen, we are all prideful at points. May we be humble and filled with his grace!
That was very nicely said. It was heart felt all the way in California. God bless you.
I just read Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis for the second time. It addresses a lot of such issues. Highly recommend.
Me too - my heart feels like it’s shattered into a million shards
thanks brother Mark, this video is exactly what I needed and the timing shows that the Lord is trying to get through to me. God bless you and your ministry
You are an EXCELLENT Bible teacher and this is a kind & cutting word. Thank you!
You really have wisdom beyond your years! Point #1 resonated with me - it used to be my mindset. Continued Blessings as you serve The Lord faithfully! 🙏
So helpful and never had it explained in such a way. I'm going through this right now. Thank you for being right on time again, by allowing Holy Spirit to use you in my life.
You are so welcome! I'm so glad this was timely!
Really needed this. Thanks Mark and regards to everyone who has seen this. Hope it helps us all 🙏
Thank you brother 💓
This is very helpful
Now I'm aware I'm always narrowing the results the Lord does in my life that's why I'm so disappointed always...
May the Lord help me in my weakness 🙏🏻🙏🏻
God bless!
That's exactly where I was going wrong, you know exactly what we are going through. Thanks for that, God bless you!
So glad this was relevant for you!
These lessons are exactly what I learned from being disappointed by God. Thank you Mark! I love your videos 🌹
This was a good one! I needed to hear this today. Thank you :)
It's always so amazing how your videos are always so timely Mark!
Thank you so much for this video! I’m going through a season of waiting and disappointment over and over again with my university admissions in relation to moving to campus this fall. I’m a lot like Martha and your content revealed that to me right now as I studied Luke 10:38-42 myself.
This helps me so much. This is much needed in my situation .God bless you
God bless you too!
This was very very very very needed for me. I think I’ve been struggling with ‘Martha syndrome’ for years and it’s so helpful to finally be able to identify why I keep being crushed by disappointment time and time again. Thank you so much for this wonderful video!!! God bless!
wow. such a powerful video. this is exactly what I needed
Thank you Jesus this is just exactly what I and others need to know I’m for one was so disappointed from my expectations I learned along booth a heart break to keep both eyes on god
Powerful message
I really, really needed this. Thank you so much brother.
Excellent! amen. Bless you brother Mark an all those you love in Jesus name
So so true. Very helpful 🙏
So glad to hear that Luba!
God bless you 🙏🏾 This is a great message, thank you ❤
It seems a lot of us needed to hear this praise God he shows us what we need at the time we need it. 🙏
Amen, praise God!
Thanks pastor Mark, I really needed this on my life right now. Your video is always timely. Praise God. Please pray for my heart to submit to God's plan, and for me to understand and learn my circumstances. I've always been anxious waiting for His plans to unfold before me. I need a breakthrough. Thank you.
May GOD give you the Grace you need right now to simply REST in HIS perfect Love for you & absolute control of your life at all times 🤲
I'm so glad this was timely!
Great video! Knew the moment I saw it in my suggestions that God was speaking. Very informative and helpful teaching. I’m pretty sure I’m dealing with point one and four personally. I don’t think point two applies to my current situation and God recently addressed point three with me personally. Glad to have this video as a resource for when the tough times come. Probably gonna save it to a playlist. I need to be reminded lol. Thanks again and continue to let God use you for His Kingdom!
So glad this was useful!
God bless you brother 🙏🏻✝️💖
wow Amazing and Helpful teaching very useful and just in time 🧡🙏
I love your videos. You set me straight and so often I listen to you and a light 💡 goes on in me. Thank you 🙏🌹
So glad to hear the content has been useful!
People are so disappointing. I only rely on God.
Amen 🙏🏽 May God bless you brother Mark.
God bless you too!
Very wise words and insights here. Thank you Mark n best wishes in Christ from the UK.
God bless! So glad this was helpful!
I feel like I am going through this as well so this was very helpful 😄 thanks Mark
God bless!
I want to thank you guys for the awesome wisdom in this video. For years, i struggled with something i wanted. I used to cry every day and blame God for not having what i wanted and asked for. After this videos, i reached my bible and i felt so much better. I thank God above all else, and i thank you, guys ❤.
Thank you , very well explained !
So glad it was useful!
Thank you. I had forgotten that truth.
My pleasure!
Amen 🙏🏼 thank you.
Praise the Lord! 🥰🕊🙏🏻😊
God bless!
Wow, very good & so spot on 🎯 thank you 🙏
So glad!
My wife had Bladder Cancer at age 59, we fought for 18 months and lost. I lost a 13 month Cancer battle with my furbaby also just lost another furbaby to Cancer. I no longer have any expectations of God.
Praying you have found some peace
Good word hallelujah hallelujah Jesus Christ hallelujah 🙌🏻
So glad!
May the Holy Spirit continue to guide you! God bless.
My friend I earnestly prayed for died of cancer this past week. I accepted her death as God's Sovereign’s will. And I did what David did after the first child he birthed with Beersheba died. He feasted. I didn’t feast but I quickly moved on with my normal life. Why??? I learned that the Lord’s intention is not for us to dwell in pain. It is however His will for us to trust Him and accept His decision like a child.
Gods a big proponent of "move on" mentality..so definitely move on, live your life. each person has a certain number of days to live regardless of how we pray or dont pray. thats the way i look at it.
So sorry for your loss. Yes, God is enough. 2 Corinthians 1 is also helpful
Thank you so much for this:
You're so welcome!
It was an amazing video. It has been disappointing for some believers when their prayers aren't answered because they don't want to bow down to His sovereignty
God bless!
Needed this. So timely thanks Mark. Pray for me. Down with chickenpox :(
God bless as you walk with the Lord, hope you feel better soon
This is Biblical teaching at its best.
Thank you.
So glad it was helpful!
I really needed this.. because I always thought it was me doing something wrong , when I never really did do anything wrong myself. I have a good heart, but my mindset doesn't want to agree with my heart. It always in conflict.
Thank you so much, my questions for someone discipling me boiled down to this! -but I wasn't accepting of it then. And this outlook has brought more sin to my life cause of recent disappoint. Attachment is harmful
God bless!
Awesome 👏🏽 explanation Brother Mark…
🤦🏾♀️ Control Jesus 🤦🏾♀️
Always expect the
Unexpected! SMILE
Stay Blessed Always
Everyone ❤️☮️❤️☮️
🙏🏽🙏🏼🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️‼️‼️
God bless Diana!
I would like to thank you for this video! I would also ask you to talk about this topic and about the glory of God. I easily complain instead of offering God my struggle.
This video should help: th-cam.com/video/Jwq7fls97Fc/w-d-xo.html
I think I am struggling with this at the moment. It`s been a rough ride for the past few years. I do everything I am told to do, but it just seems like the right thing for me is always what makes me the loneliest and struggle the most financially. It is hard to be content at times, but I`m working on it.
May GOD reveal HIS will to you Connor thru your time in prayer & meditation on HIS Word, abiding in HIM & enjoying GOD. Hearing HIS voice & following that alone. GOD is with you, beholding you & always there to comfort you.
Amen, keep working and being faithful. It takes time to see the seeds grow :)
Oh boy, I do all of these! No wonder I’m always getting disappointed. I was told that an expectation is just a resentment waiting to happen. I need to refocus not on the outcome but on God.
good examples
Thank you again
My pleasure!
I confess that I often want to direct God's will for my life. I know that is a sin and I am praying about it. I need to trust God to deal with my prayer requests in His own way. It is hard to let go of things you desire and people that you love, but that may be His plan for you. You may never see that person commit their lives to Christ, but that may happen when you are no longer around them. I know that my heart has been broken many times over losses, but I know I will gain in the long run.
GOD allows us to break so HE can make us stronger vessels of HIS Light, Mercy, Grace & Glory 💎 "A bruised reed shall he not break and the smoking flax shall he not quench." So we keep looking unto JESUS, the Author & Finisher of our Faith 🙏
God bless Jesse!
Hey Mark! Get video! I was wondering when is the next enrollment for your singles course going to be. I would really like to enroll.
Feeling disappointed when god doesn’t meet your needs is totally normal and understandable. It’s not fair to make people feel bad about real justifiable emotions they experience
Thank you and bless you bro! We should remember that Christ's death on the cross and His resurrection is MORE than enough of what God already did for us! We should expect nothing more from God other than his promises as revealed in his Word.
Not so. Imagine if a child pulled back from running into a busy road by his father felt he should never ask anything of him again?? That’s not how parent/child relationships work.
Children have wants and desires and if wicked earthly parents can, do and take pleasure in fulfilling some of those for their children, how much moreso should we expect to be able to go to the Heavenly Father with _the desires of our hearts?_
Parenthood is more than just meeting *needs.*
Though I no longer believe in the biblical God, I leave this comment to boost the algorithm because I think this is good teaching and more people should hear it.
Good video, Mark. I hope you and the family are well and your students for AGW are growing in faith!
I think I'd find it hard to have been praying for a loved one to return to the Lord and for that not to happen. I feel that scripture teaches we ought to pray for the salvation of our whole household so that our joy may be complete in Christ. I will keep serving God and being faithful but I do have an expectation that He will move in His own time. Hell is endless pain and trauma and I will hold on here on Earth in faith for those who have left the Lord and are unwittingly heading there.
Amen, we should pray for good things like that. It only becomes a problem when we get mad at God for not doing what we are praying for :)
Very helpful, thank you! I've realised how controlling I actually am in ways :/ Never thought it!!! I def struggle to let God be in control. It's always a trust thing, isn't it. Guess I'm a bit of a Martha :/
I'm over it. For 2023, no expectations, no disappointment, heart break, no stress, no physical pain, no nothing.
God take over my life for I am nothing without you.
pls pray for me, I'm taking up an entrance test tomorrow for my PG.....
And I Hope God wills it
God bless as you follow the Lord
Very interesting. You are a very good teacger.
But (my opinions) :
1. Exagerated (there is a difference between egoism and expectations)
2. We cannot live on our own and most of people are liars, saboteurs of our life and selfsaboteurs.
3. True, but I only ask for help and not illusion or disillusion. Nothing else. Expecially about frustrations and depression in front of life.
4. I think about God every day. I started at 5 or 6 years old. A real conflict in entire. I feel abandoned as Christ on cross, in my thoughts and actions. I love his son. But the Father is very difficilt to me.
I choose to be kind to oeople animals and abandoned spuls not to receive from him, but because I love. Just love. Too many times I receive destructions, illusions, emotions neglected, everything I dont believe/trust win, and everything I believe/trust lose.
Very difficult to me.. very..
I praise for all of you. I hope you find hapoiness in everything you want.
But He gives us the desires of our hearts. How can we not attach our expectations to our faith.
Expect disappointment for when it happens. U won’t be surprised
If there is a God, he is failing mankind. The best thing I did for my mental health was stop believing in a being who picks and chooses who to bless and allows so much destruction to manifest.
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My disappointments are more with people than with God.
Disappointed should not be a source of condemnation, we are free to feel and to be, to feel anger, pain and disappointment. The law would have us like robots, emotionless, fearful of judgement. Perfect love casts fear away, you are allowed to cry, to stand down and rest. Mary rested, rest even allows us the grace to complain, who but a son or daughter can complain to a father, a servant can't, a son or child can, we are free to complain to God and bring him our suffering, anger and pain. We are not robots, slaves we are children, we can cry, we have someone to complain to, and that's a living hope. Atheists have none to complain to or bring their sorrows to, scripture says we were without hope and without God, this is real. Thank you God that I can bring you my anger, my pain and sorrows.
Lord give me what you want me to have.
No. We are disappointed in God himself, not other people. The fault should not be laid on man but on God's providence. Ultimately it is God who for ordains all things that come to pass.
What if, you’re in a season of waiting on God, and something traumatic happens to you, and now I have no place to go. Why would God keep me here? I’m feeling discouraged & disappointed 😔
Wow!!!
God bless!
Thank you for this, truthfully I'm not sure what's the right approach. What about when the Bible speaks about praying believing that you have already received your request? I've prayed for a long time for a spouse, and while I've always believed God is ABLE to provide, I couldn't be sure if He was willing. So at times I've requested it "within His will" and other times trying to thank God in advance. Am I doing something wrong?
Thank God in advance for whatever God decides to do, not for the specific outcome you feel he should do. Yes, asking in faith and submitting to whatever happens is right. Rewatching the video should help with your questions :)
"Faith is a substance of things HOPED for, the evidence of things not seen."
And He makes a u turn on you.
You know it is sad when these things are also placed on yourself. Constantly, I try to obey even though I in a way get caught up with something else, end up sinning and repenting. The expectation to me is I should not have this issue anymore because I do believe in his power and etc. However, the problem is the addiction I get during this sin. It is immature to say God will take away this addiction. A mature Christian will say yes, God will take it away however, even though I am not perfect and I admit I am a sinner however, I can not do what is right without him. I tend to be so hard on myself to the point where I hate myself for my sins. However, suddenly God answers my prayers and suddenly once again you dug up what I have been wondering why am I so mad. I am disappointed towards him but also mainly at myself for not being exactly what I want to be. Completely and utterly obeying. However, I end up failing and sinning. Yet, I continue to repent. Not only that the book of Jonah really hits me since he was frustrated and yet he was honest with God. God was not and back either God knew why and had him question why. Which this is what this video put into view. So thank God Almighty.
We can actually become sick because of God's refusal to help.
Very late to finding this... But didn't really help with what I'm going through now. (Maybe 5) is because the Heavenly Father is allowing His child to suffer in spite of prayers for healing. God can do anything He chooses. How does one reconcile claims like "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest", "Ask and it will be given to you", and knowing in the heart that He can heal anything... to prayers and pleas that go unanswered?
Ive had enough experience over the years to know that sometimes God answers prayers and sometimes he doesn’t…. He seems to have his mind made up and prayers are irrelevant… so the only prayer i say is to thank him daily for his blessings because asking for things is waste of time and useless… so his will be done
I think expecting results based on your faithful action, as well, comes from the Deuteronomy 28 where certain blessings are attached to faithful living and curses attached to unfaithful living.
If God punishes and convicts us when we sin, then why is it wrong to be in anticipation of a blessing from God by our obedience & sacrifice? Jesus spoke many times about rewards. The longer I live, the more confused I am about the Christian life.
I'm sorry I'm not going my way I understand they don't always go my way but when I try to better myself and do what's good for my life and to help better my life and nothing good happens enough is enough I think that happens is negative things no wonder why I think negative All the time
I'm not sure what God has done in my day to day life to have earned my faith. Faith in a consistently unresponsive God who hides from us is a completely unreasonable demand.
Hi Mark from Apply God's Word YOU SHOULD HAVE MADE THIS VIDEO A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. It still helps tho.
It is easy for you to lecture everyone about disappointment in God when you have gotten everything you want and all your dreams have come true!
What about those for whom none of their dreams have come true, and not just that, those who endure so much affliction?
It's important to remember the historical context. Women were supposed to feed, clean, and do the housework, so of course she expected Mary to help her.
Exactly what I needed to hear today thank You Lord Jesus Christ hallelujah hallelujah Jesus Christ hallelujah 🙌🏻 worthy is the lamb hallelujah hallelujah Jesus Christ hallelujah 🙌🏻 Great is His faithfulness hallelujah hallelujah Jesus Christ hallelujah 🙌🏻
So glad this was helpful! All glory to God!