12/03/2023 Midtown Church Sacramento + Online
Series: Dealing With Everything: Answers to Life’s Challenges
Everything Promised: Dealing with Disappointment
Pastor Bob Balian
Main Text: Isaiah 41:10
“So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
Broken Promises and Failed Dreams Can Lead to Disappointment and Discouragement
How God Delivers Us From Disappointment and Discouragement?
3 Promises:
1.) THE PROMISE OF ATTENDANCE (HIS PRESENCE)
“So do not fear, for I am with you; (verse 10a)
2.) THE PROMISE OF ASSOCIATION (HIS RELATIONSHIP)
“… do not be dismayed, for I am your God.” (verse 10b)
3.) THE PROMISE OF ACTION (HIS HELP)
“I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” (verse 10c)
Final Thought: There are Divine Disappointments
Numbers 20:2-12
“Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron. 3 They quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the Lord! 4 Why did you bring the Lord’s community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here? 5 Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain or figs, grapevines or pomegranates. And there is no water to drink!” 6 Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them. 7 The Lord said to Moses, 8 “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.” 9 So Moses took the staff from the Lord’s presence, just as he commanded him. 10 He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” 11 Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank. 12 But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”
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