Good Morning Sunshine! Let Disappointment Become The Dirt You Use To Break Through!

2 Kings 3:15–17 (KJV) “But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him. And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches. For thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water…”

Every rebuilding journey must eventually pass through the valley of disappointment. This day may meet you there, but it is not going to leave you in that place, but to teach you how to dig beyond it. Disappointment seeks to suffocate your expectation. It tries to convince you that digging is pointless, that obedience is wasted effort, and that trusting again will only lead to another valley. But today God is bringing you into alignment with a truth from Heaven, disappointment is not your stopping point; it is your digging point. It is the very ground that God is using to reveal deeper strength, deeper surrender, and deeper faith in you.

The three kings in 2 Kings 3 were not just thirsty, they were disappointed. Their alliance didn’t produce protection! Their strategy didn’t produce stability! Their journey didn’t produce progress! They walked seven days and ended up with nothing to show for it. And disappointment always hits hardest when you expect one outcome and meet another. Proverbs 13:12 says, “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.” Their hearts were tired. Their hopes were bruised. Their expectations were crushed under the weight of unmet outcomes. Yet God allowed this moment to become the soil where obedience would take root. Jehoshaphat’s question, “Is there not here a prophet of the Lord?” (v. 11), was not merely a request, it was a refusal to let disappointment lead the conversation. He pushed past what he saw and leaned into what was possible. He refused to allow the dryness to dictate his direction. This is how you dig beyond disappointment; you stop allowing your emotions to interpret your future! You stop allowing temporary loss to become a permanent mindsets! You start calling on the voice of God to interpret what your heart cannot understand!

Elisha’s presence becomes the catalyst for breakthrough, but notice what he does first. He calls for a minstrel, (when is the last time you just basked in Worship?) Worship was needed because disappointment makes your heart hard. Disappointment closes off your listening. Disappointment contaminates your atmosphere, but God used worship as the instrument that softened the soil again. The sound of surrender made room for the voice of instruction. This is your reminder, when disappointment speaks loudly, your worship must speak louder. Worship does not deny what you feel but it invites God into what you feel until your heart can breathe again. Then God’s instruction can come, simple, strange, and supernatural, “Make this valley full of ditches.” Why would God require digging in a place associated with disappointment? Because the place where you were disappointed is the very place where God plans to demonstrate His Power. You cannot rebuild by avoiding valleys, you rebuild by transforming them. You rebuild by digging in the same places where your expectations once collapsed. You rebuild by obeying God even when the ground beneath your feet still carries the memory of loss.

I love how verse 17 reveals the reason behind the digging, “Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water.” God wanted them to know that the outcome would not depend on visible progress. Disappointment trains you to look for signs, but God trains you to trust His voice. If the rain had come immediately, the kings might have credited the weather. If the wind had shifted, they might have credited timing. But when water comes with no wind, no rain, no clouds, no signs, all credit returns to God. Digging beyond disappointment requires you to believe that God does not need emotional evidence to fulfill a spiritual promise that He made to you.  And then the very next verse confirms you that this miracle was “but a light thing in the sight of the Lord.” The kings were overwhelmed with emotion, but God was not overwhelmed with their situation. Your disappointment may feel heavy to you, but it is light to Him, but not in the sense that He ignores your pain, but in the sense that His Power is never diminished by your circumstances. Rebuilding requires shifting your perspective, the thing that disappoints you is the thing that God is about to use to demonstrate His Power through.

Here is a prophetic word to anchor you for today, “And it came to pass in the morning… that the country was filled with water.” The water filled not just the ditches, but the country (it went beyond what you asked for). What disappointed them became the place God flooded! What once held emptiness became the place God overflowed! This is why you dig beyond your disappointment, because God plans to fill the very places where your heart once cried out. He plans to turn every disappointment into demonstration, valleys into vessels, and your obedience into overflow. Today, God invites you to pick up your shovel again, not to bury your disappointment, but for you to dig through it because your valley still has purpose, your heart still has the capacity, and Your obedience still has Power that God gave you. And the God who fills ditches will fill every dry place that disappointment tried to steal from you. This is your rebuilding season. And disappointment is just the dirt you dug through to reach the deeper place where faith grows in you.

Let’s Pray:

Father, today I bring every disappointment before You. The ones I speak of and the ones I bury. The ones that left me questioning my worth, my direction, and even my prayers. I lay them openly before You, not to dwell in them but to surrender them. I acknowledge that disappointment is not my destination, You are. Lord, help me dig beyond the places that once broke me. Give me the courage to pick up my shovel again and believe that there is still something to build, still something to restore, still something to hope for. Strengthen my heart where it has been weakened and renew my trust where it has been shaken. God, soften the soil of my heart through worship. Let Your presence be the balm that heals what disappointment cracked. Let worship raise my perspective, lift my spirit, and reposition my faith. I refuse to let disappointment dictate my destiny. I choose to let Your voice lead me. Father, teach me to obey even when I do not see signs. Help me dig without wind. Help me trust without rain. Help me believe without evidence. Let the truth of Your Word become more real to me than the residue of past outcomes. Anchor me in the certainty that You do not operate like man and that my expectations cannot limit Your miracles. Father, restore my confidence. Restore the vision I lost in the valley. Restore the faith I dropped while waiting. Restore the strength disappointment drained out of me. Rebuild me in the very places where I felt broken. Make this valley full of ditches in my heart, and prepare me for the water You are sending. Lord, when the water comes, when overflow replaces emptiness, let it heal every wound disappointment caused. Let it wash away bitterness, fear, shame, and confusion. Let it fill me with clarity, peace, and renewed faith. Let Your water testify that digging was not in vain. And when You turn my disappointment into demonstration, I will give You all the glory. I will testify that obedience carried me into places disappointment tried to block. I declare that my valley will overflow and my faith will rise. Today, I dig beyond disappointment, trusting in the God who fills what I prepare. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen!

Nugget: When disappointment tries to bury you, obedience becomes your shovel.

Blessings…

Love, Dr. Jean…