Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success. God allows you to have a winter because He knows that spring is coming. Understand that your down time is your prep time. Imagine how the devil would be defeated if you used every down time as prep time. Having down time does not mean that you have been denied. It simply means that you have been with time to make sure that you are better prepared. 

It's an absolute blessing that it didn't work.  God will give you down time to prep you for the pressure of what He's about to release into your life.  Because when you come into your season it's too late to start stitching (preparing).  You been feeling like you're in a state of failure but God has really been giving you a time for preparation. ~jakes