Will you allow God to turn your pain into a blessing?

• By candidasullivan
• September 6, 2024
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As I was journaling this morning, I felt the shift happen. I went from talking to the Lord to Him talking to me. 

Has this ever happened to you? When God gives me the opportunity to talk to and teach me, it inspires me and makes me feel seen and loved. 

God spoke such beautiful words this morning that I held my breath a little as I read them.

You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become. You can focus on the PAIN that brought you the blessings or the BLESSINGS you received from the pain. 

It was exactly what my aching heart needed to hear. Lately, the enemy has had me focusing on the bad things that have happened to me. He wants me to recount every moment of pain. But this morning, God reminded me that He turns my pain into blessings. Without the pain, I wouldn’t have received the blessing. 

We all have stories and a past that have shaped us into who we are today. If one thing had happened differently, it could have redirected the whole course of our lives. Changes might even remove my most beautiful, treasured blessings. 

Knowing this helps me accept everything and even take it one step further into gratitude for it all. 

It all happened because it was supposed to happen. It all has unique gifts and blessings. Sometimes, I need to ask God to reveal the blessings in it all. And if there is no blessing in it right now, I can ask God to take it all and turn it into one. 

Sometimes, the blessing is using the pain to share our experiences to help someone else. As I was sitting with my pain, I realized that if I allowed the pain of all I had endured to continue hurting me, I would have wasted it. All the pain I suffered as a little girl will be wasted if I don’t accept it, forgive it, and be willing to use it for good. 

With God’s help, we can take everything the enemy devised to hurt us and use it to bless others. 

That’s what I did with Zippy’s Club. I took the pain of being bullied and turned it into a resource to help kids overcome their pain. 

God can shift our perspectives so beautifully that we thank Him from the depths of our hearts for all we have endured. 

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