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Introduction: Our nation and world today is filled with people who are hopeless.
Why do you think that that is?
They have looked at their life and the world around them and have concluded that there is nothing here that satisfies.
Jim Carey: “I wish everyone could get rich and famous and have everything they ever dreamed of so they would know that's not the answer.”
Hopelessness in America today is a huge issue.
According to the ADAA, more than 15,000,000 Americans (6.7% of the population) view their lives as hopeless.
According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States.
Each year 44,193 people die as a result of suicide which is an average of a little over five people per hour.
According to the Jason Foundation, suicide is the second leading cause of death for youths ages 10-24.
Each day in our nation there are 5,240 attempts by young people in grades 7-12.
The purpose of this lesson is to equip you to help someone you know and love who may be dealing with hopelessness, or maybe even to better equip you who may be dealing with hopeless thoughts yourself.
People who are hopeless have looked around them and have concluded that there is absolutely nothing on this earth that can satisfy them.
They have literally run out of earthly options, and they have actually come to the right conclusion.
The problem is that they are going to the wrong places for answers, and, like them, if you are wrapped up in the things of this world you will come away disappointed and empty every single time.
One woman posted the following through on an online forum:
I want to know if I am alone feeling this way - I sometimes feel homesick for a place that I know does not exist in this life.
It is a weird feeling and very hard to explain like a nagging thought in the back of my mind, uncontrollable longing or a very strong craving.
Wikipedia says Germans even have a name for it: Sehnsucht - "It is sometimes felt as a longing for a far off country, but not a particular earthly land which we can identify.”
I want you to know that this place we long for does exist - it is called eternal life and we can experience it through the person and work of Jesus Christ.
Not just hope is offered but infinite hope is offered in Jesus.
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/unexplained-mysteries-paranormal/1953943-do-you-ever-feel-homesick-place.html#ixzz5TY9ju8WH
You were not made to be satisfied by things of this earth.
This world is temporary and God, when he created you, set in you a longing for eternity.
There is nothing in this temporary world that will satisfy the eternal longing of your heart.
What is Hopelessness?
Feeling Alienated from God
A hopeless person feels like God is nowhere to be found.
Hopelessness will drive you to believe that no one else understands, even God.
A hopeless person scrolls through instagram and gazes at everyone else’s brightly colored world and concludes: “I can’t go out there.
Everyone else is having a great life and I’m just not.”
A hopeless person feels like God is nowhere to be found.
Hopelessness will drive you to believe that no one else understands, even God.
A hopeless person scrolls through instagram and gazes at everyone else’s brightly colored world and concludes: “I can’t go out there.
Everyone else is having a great life and I’m just not.”
A Christian going through a season of hopelessness might say something like this: “I pray and there is no answer.
I read my Bible and it is lifeless.
I try to listen to truth and it just feels empty.
I know that faith and trust in God is the answer, but I must not even be doing that right.”
Listening to Our Own Thoughts Rather than God’s Thoughts
A hopeless person sees absolutely no escape.
David asks the question “how long?” four times in the first two verses.
To Him, it seems like an eternity.
In his own counsel and in his own heart he doesn’t remember a time before his discouragement and he can’t see a way out of his discouragement.
Wishing to Die
Feeling Like There is No Foundation
Someone who is hopeless might say something like, “There is no constant anymore.”
“Nothing makes sense anymore.”
“Everything that used to makes sense doesn’t anymore.”
Transition: Thankfully, there is hope for us when we feel this way.
How God Deals with Hopelessness
Example:
God Deals with the Entire Person
The spiritual part of a person can impact the physical part of a person, and the physical part of us can impact the spiritual part of a person.
Don’t ignore your check engine light.
1 King 19:
1 King 19:5-7
1 Kings
God Highlights Hope
1 King 19:
Dealing with Hopelessness Today
Take Care of Yourself Physically
Highlight Hope
The Scriptures Give Hope
The Future Gives Hope
Our Identity in Christ Gives Hope
God’s Mercy Gives Hope
God’s Salvation Gives Hope
God’s Provision Gives Hope
Conclusion:
You have immense worth as an image bearer of God.
Genesis 3:26-27
Genesis 3:26-27
God cares about your pain
Your life has a very specific purpose
The pain you feel now is temporary even thought it feels like it will go one forever
God forgives you when you fall
God loves you
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