BREAKDOWNS JUST BEFORE BREAKTHROUGHS!

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Disappointment is defined as something or an event whose outcome is not as good, attractive or satisfactory as was hoped or expected. It is a CRASHED EXPECTATION OR FATAL HOPE. When something hoped for did not happen, it is disappointment or a hopelessly fatal hope. SOMEONE SAID: "IF YOU HAVEN'T SUFFERED, YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND. IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN DISAPPOINTED, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO SUCCEED." Sometimes God will notTOTALLY BANISH DISAPPOINTMENTS from your life because some disappointments are actually divine appointment in disguise.

When life's wound become incurable and perpetual, then the enemy called "recurring disappointment just at the edge of breakthroughs" is at work. Such recurring (repeated) disappointment patterns are manufactured by the gates of hell or the enemies of your destiny to keep you from your Promised Land. What made a great Philosopher like Schopenhauer to state that "life is an endless pain with a painful end", Ah, recurring disappointments shift your life's GOAL-POST from time to time, so that you are NEVER able to score goals of celebration! What will make great men of God like the Prophet Jeremiah and Job to cry:

Cursed be the day I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!
Jeremiah 20:14

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
Job 3:1

This arrow of "BREAKDOWNS JUST BEFORE BREAKTHROUGHS" or "ACCIDENTS AT CRITICAL TURNING POINTS" is no respecter of position, titles, persons or power. It can only be handled by a man or woman who will watch and pray. That was the case of Elijah, the great "prophet of FIRE" who prayed to die. Hear him...

But he himself went a day's journey into wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed to die, and said, it is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!

Why? Because, after THE FIRE came from heaven, what he expected was the PRAISE OF JEHOVAH and not the PAIN OF JEZEBEL! His expectation was disappointed. Again let's turn to a noble writer and literary genius like Shakespeare and hear him crying out through the lips of Macbeth:

Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing

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But I know that Jehovah is not an idiot telling a tale. He says He is life Himself; therefore life does not consist of sound and fury signifying , "NOTHING" But for a great genius like that to make such a statement shows great, painful and regular disappointments with life. Then "Jonah the LONG-DISTANCE RUNNER", the prophet of God in 820 B.C during the reign of king Jeroboam 11, also prayed to die because God took away his GOURD PROTECTIVE PLANT COVER and exposed him to the "heat of life"

He fainted and wished in himself to die and said it was better for him to die than to live. This was because after his assignment and DOING HIS BEST, what he expected was a HEART OF LOVE and not the HEAT OF LIFE! That was disappointments on the pulpit. Disappointments are both good and bad because every disappointment is sometimes a blessing in disguise.

Everything is not God-sent, everything is God-used. God uses everything as His raw material to manufacture your promised Land. Some disappointments are God's "appointment letters" to your future throne " That is why you must not cry at every disappointment, but you should always pray the two prayers below:

1. Lord, I vow to look to You alone this year. Disappoint me if I trust in or look up to any man.

2. My God; You know ALL THINGS. Even when I complain, disappoint me in a thing that will not end up promoting me this year. Choose the best for me in Jesus name.

Yes, God will sometimes take us through "painful, ugly" situations only to turn us into something beautiful; something that will glorify His Name. Look at the painful death of our saviour. If He had not gone through pain and endured it, where would we have been? How could His Father have been glorified? How could we ever have known how much the father loves us?

The situation that you are in right now is the "death" that will give birth to your dream. The recurring disappointments and the breakdowns before major breakthroughs that you are enduring will be the launching pad for your future because ALL things will work out for your good at last IF YOU LOVE GOD.

Cheers