Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We are picking up with a new devotional

in the Bible app titled Bouncing Back from Disappointment and I for one I'm very excited about it.

I know that we all go through disappointment so hopefully this is very encouraging for us.

There's a link to it in the description of the podcast if you guys want to fall along with us

and as always I'm going to read the scripture and then Tori's going to pick up with the divo.

Let's do it. The scripture is Psalms 42 verse 11 and it says this,

why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God. I will praise him again

my savior and my God. The devotional says we live in a world that is not the way God intended it to be

when he created it. When sin entered his perfect creation all of it was subject to its fruit.

Let's face it discouragement is not from God but is one of Satan's tools that gives us a feeling

of hopelessness. The psalmist David experienced discouragement during his life and openly

writes about it to encourage us. Consider at the beginning of psalm 13 where David cries,

how long oh lord will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul? Having sorrow in my heart all the day?

Certainly we have all felt like this from time to time. When the pressures of daily life mount

up and we see no way to relieve that pressure we might think that the lord as the song goes caught

the last train for the coast but David has a lot more to offer than heartfelt lament. His writings

always conclude with a confession that God is the one who supplies all of his needs even when

disappointed. But I have trusted in your loving kindness, my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

I will sing to the Lord because He has dealt bountifully with me.

The God who is sovereign over all of creation and loves us can provide hope to our hearts when

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