Bill Johnson shares how to process disappointment and loss. Navigating disappointment with a soft heart, and dealing with things quickly will keep discouragement from taking root in our heart.
i’ve known you know folks who’ve
struggled for three months you know
wrestled with you know stuff
or yeah been stuck for six months and
are are you
like over the years you it’s just gotten
smaller the season’s gotten smaller or
is it
that um you know if it took three months
now
for every loss or disappointment my
entire life
beauty morning i would be in a cave
somewhere
you know because i mean when you we have
so many situations going on around you
and i don’t want to make a light of it
but
you have to learn a process that becomes
a little bit quicker than before
yeah otherwise you live under this
influence yeah you live in a reaction to
disappointment you live in a reaction or
you
you just pretend it’s not there you just
live in the denial thing and and that
doesn’t help anybody either
so there has to be there has to be a
process and what happens
is i don’t want to make light of
anybody’s disappointment anybody’s lost
because it is so painful
but if you if you go through a couple
big ones you know where you’ve walked
through
you have a certain immunity to
bugs that would weaken you
in another season it doesn’t mean
hardness
it’s not callousness yeah but there’s
there is already something built
internally in a person that’s walked
through this process through personal
loss
not just a distance not just i’m
mourning with a distant friend
you know through disappointment i’m
trying to walk them through i mean
personal stuff when you walk it through
purely and faithfully you know it really
it does build something in you it
doesn’t mean
it doesn’t mean you’re not devastated
again yeah but it means the recovery
time
you know it does become a question
experience his faithfulness in that and
and yeah exactly like he will be
faithful again yeah
it it it hurts it hurts laughs again
yeah
exactly it hurts like crazy and um
my my view is this is there you know one
of the cr you made
a question about devastation stuff there
may be chaos
going all around but in this place with
the lord there isn’t
you know and so my
my way of thinking my view of life view
of the world
all that stuff is going to be shaped by
either what’s going on out there
or what’s going on in here and i’m
either going to live
in reaction to chaos under the influence
of chaos
or i’m going to live out of this place
of absolute
pure affection for christ and authority
to influence the world around me
and that’s that’s where the breakdown
comes
is because if so much
even ministry uh preaching and prayer
and
so much of our life is is patterned
after what we’re picking up out here
yeah
yeah that’s not it’s not necessarily
wrong
it’s just inferior to picking it up in
here and then living offensively
you know transformationally to the world
around us and i feel like that’s
that’s a part of the dna that god’s put
in us is to learn how to
yeah learn that all right get alone with
god as much as you can
silence the exterior noise silence the
the static that’s going on all around
you as much as you’re able to
put on worship music if you need to do
whatever you need to do
you know sing a song sing a psalm
you know read old prophecies over your
life whatever it might be
but you do that just to get yourself
into a place where you become
conscious of him again and you just do
your best to become conscious of the
lord
and in that place you know i don’t i
don’t like just bringing problems
all the time you know the chaos and the
world around me you know there’s so much
chaos going on it would be
24 hours a day non-stop i i want to
discover what’s right
and from there live towards the the
stuff you know
and that’s the only way i can do it and
i i know benny does the same kind of
thing she
you know she just really fights for that
place of you know just
absolute peace with the father the joy
there’s always joy of the father there
just always is
it’s always there it’s always available
and then in that place
we start ministering to people around us
of situations and it may require me
to leave my personal joy and mourn with
those that mourn
or to sit down in the gutter with this
problem and that problem but
you know it’s it’s that place with the
lord