Dr. Lyndon Wall of Refresh Ministries points out that burn-out is often predicated by a loss of hope.

Dr. Wall prescribes six remedies to recover your hope and prevent burn-out.

First, ask yourself — What is my understanding of my call to impact the world? See if you can write it out in a sentence. Second, ask — What is my hope level of this happening? Rate on a scale of 1-10: One meaning little hope, 10 fullness of confidence. Third, ask — How has your ministry experience affected your belief in yourself, other people and God? Has there been a sliding toward negative attitudes in any of these three categories? Fourth — Consider the difference between faithfulness and impact. Which was your calling to? Often when we are called to a certain ministry, we add our own assumptions about how that ministry is going to change the world. When our assumptions don’t pan out we move easily to despair. Fifth — Reflect specifically on how your practical belief about God has changed? I h...