Okay, well, one of the things I would say is that Praise God you’re writing in the sense of that you had backslid, but you aren’t now, Amen. So you know, what I love is that today is new, and new are His mercies. You are loved by God even in your backslid state, and this is helpful to know for how to get past disappointment. This is good news for anybody who went through a season of crazy lack of belief and carnality. God loved you and was with you even then and He was guarding you and protecting you, and He wooed you and He led you back to Himself.

How to get past disappointment: see it as a testimony of God’s love and redemption

So to me, that is such a major testimony. You see, the enemy would try to use that and say, ‘oh, look what you did.’ ‘You remember back then?’ Well, what is your testimony? Yeah, it was back then. But let me tell you about right now, that’s the thing that you have to concentrate on.

Imagine taking a cup of fresh water and then chucking it into the ocean. And then your friend goes, ‘Whoa, whoa, wait, wait, I wanted that!’ And you’ll be like, ‘Oh, let me get it.’

You can’t get that fresh water back now that you have thrown it in the saltwater. It’s just completely gone. It just got totally absorbed and that’s exactly what happened to your sin.

The Scriptures show that God takes our sin and He throws it into the sea of forgetfulness. So when you’re trying to find your sin and remember, God’s like, ‘What? What are you talking about? I’ve given you salvation and righteousness and holiness and this is your identity and this is who you are as my daughter and my son.’

Guys that’s powerful. The devil doesn’t want you to realise that.

When it comes to getting past disappointment I’m going to encourage you to spend time in the Word.

For as you renew your mind in the Word, as you keep going back to the Word, the Word enforces His salvation power and shows you that you have been delivered from your past. Yes, we can have regrets, but we take those regrets and we hand them to Lord and He gives us the oil of joy.

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

Isaiah 61:3

Instead of a garment of heaviness, right? Instead of this broken-heartedness from things of the past. He says, ‘let me take this, and I want to give you a garment of praise and a spirit of joy’. Just like the prodigal son we take that robe of righteousness and it covers it up. Stop opening it up and looking at the past. More than with your head try to get these truths. You believe it out of your heart. Because the Spirit of God inside of you says, ‘Amen!’ and you’re agreeing with your spirit versus looking at the past in your flesh.

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