Are you disappointed - sick of Praying, feeling abondoned by God...? ..Pastor Gilman

     Maybe you have longed for healing, for a purpose, a job, or a baby, or for a mate. You have faithfully and earnestly prayed for weeks and months — even years. But you are still sick, still unemployed, still childless, or still single. And you are disappointed. In fact, you are disappointed with  God.

So when I’m disappointed by God, there’s a problem with my faith. I’m not trusting that God himself is who he says he is, for me.. I’m not trusting in him as my all-satisfying treasure.
It can be the land of desolation, hopelessness and isolation. We lose faith, push away our friends or take flight on a destructive path, as anger, resentment and disappointment take over our minds and yes even our hearts.. We feel that God has deserted us.. He’s not listening anymore.. We feel betrayed. We turn to other people, to other things and begin to sink further into the abyss. 

It is a terrible and lonely place to be…We tell ourselves that God doesn’t love me, He has rejected me and you even begin to hate yourself.. And so you seek to justify and say to yourself, as the little angel of Satan sits on your shoulder , that you don’t blame God for rejecting you because your just not worth it.. Of course all of this is born out of despair that has nothing to do with God at all… Satan is our biggest tormenter and as we sink further Satan will reinforce your negativity about God 100%...

So what can we do?

Come to Jesus Christ with your disappointment, trusting him to meet you and change your heart (Psalm 40:1–3).

Confess that you are longing for something else more than him. Ask him to forgive you through the cross. Receive assurance of complete forgiveness (1 John 1:9).

Plead for the work of the Spirit to change your heart, strengthen your faith, and enable you once again to experience Jesus Christ as your all-satisfying treasure (John 6:35).

Since the Spirit does his work through the word, find Scriptures describing God’s love, power, and majesty, and promises concerning God as your all-satisfying treasure. Pray earnestly over these Scriptures. Fight to trust them (Galatians 3:5).

Continue praying over and trusting these Scriptures until you feel the Spirit changing your heart, and you once again experience Jesus Christ as your all-satisfying treasure (1 Peter 1:8).

Pray over God’s promise that he will ordain every trial to bring you even more heart-satisfaction in him (2 Corinthians 4:17). Do this until the Spirit strengthens your faith that whatever you lack will bring you even more of God.

Also pray over God’s promise that he will take care of everything else you need (health, work, money) in such a way that it will bring you even more of him (Philippians 4:13, 19; Matthew 6:33).

Continue to pray for the other things you desire (healing, employment, children, marriage), but fight to keep trusting in Jesus as your all-satisfying treasure (Psalm 43:4).