We have heard many times in dealing with our pain that we must be strong, that “this” too shall pass and while they are both true I propose another consideration; and it is that your pain is your miracle.
Before I delve deeper though, there is another message that the Lord would want you to know which I think goes in tandem with our discussion. He does not want us to react when challenges or our struggles highlight themselves. He wants us to take charge knowing who we are and use the tools he has equipped us with to overcome them.
God wants us to stand firm in his truth, our natural tendency is to worry before we remember who we are. But God wants us to develop the habit of turning to him first before worrying. That must become a natural part of us which is facilitated by us developing habits where needed. To develop the habit we must have a strategy in place. You want to live as how God would have you? Read your bible, listen to a YouTube sermon, a song – whatever it takes. You must have a strategy to counteract the thoughts and actions that will prevent you from immediately adopting a stance that says “GOD YOU ARE MY PROTECTOR AND PROVIDER.” I leave that strategy up to you.
So let’s talk about Your Pain Is Your Miracle”
Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. Pain motivates the individual to withdraw from damaging situations, to protect a damaged body part while it heals, and to avoid similar experiences in the future. It is a major symptom in many medical conditions, and can interfere with a person’s quality of life and general functioning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain
So pain is a feeling that can interfere with our quality of life. It is a feeling that gets in our way. When we feel pain it motivates us to withdraw – as in take ourselves away and hope that things will be rectified in time and on its own. Isn’t that the case with our emotional pain? Rather than deal with that pain we hide, we discontinue, we run away from – instead of being proactive, we are reactive. Our way to heal and move on from situations (in some instances) is to stay in our feelings and silently “rot” away rather than see how we can use that feeling/pain to our benefit/miracle.
I recently listened to a Steven Furtick where he suggested that we develop “hate” statements. Hope I’m not quoting him wrong and it sounds rather unconventional doesn’t it? He further suggests that “hate” is a stronger motivation than love – I will allow that to soak in for a minute.
So allow me to explain; a hate statement would be like – “I hate feeling down” – the statement usually relates to you. When you can seriously relate to how bad it (the “hate” statement) makes you feel, you will be highly motivated to do something about it. Get the drift? Another of mine is “I hate being indecisive”, true story. I am so, so tired of being an indecisive person. So I have started to act on decisions that I do not want to make. Now think about your own “hate” statements and imagine the miracle you would experience by doing something about them.
When you embrace the pain of how you are feeling in any moment; when you say “I HATE PAIN” of whatever sort, you will be motivated to change and in so doing it becomes your miracle. It begins to drive you to seek help and change your circumstances quicker and more effectively than you have ever been able to do before. Now I don’t know about you but when I say seek help I am talking about my Father above.
Today my prayer is that you will look at your circumstances, begin to write some hate statements (essentially your pain statements) then see how you can turn them into the miracle that saves you and those around you.
Let your pain become your miracle today, seek God’s help in making the changes a consistent and habitual part of you and experience a new life.
As always lots of love and amazing light.
