RECYCLING PAIN

God wants to recycle the pain in your life for the benefit of others. People are not helped by our strengths; they are helped when we are honest about our weaknesses.

The blessing of pain is that it gets our attention and lets us know something is seriously wrong. Do you remember the story of Jonah being swallowed by the fish? Jonah was going one way and God said: I want you to go the other way. At The bottom of the sea Jonah finally said, “When I had lost all hope, I turned my thoughts once more to the Lord.” A great verse to show that God uses pain to get our attention.

You will never know that God is all you need until God is all you’ve got. When it’s all falling apart and you’ve lost it all, that’s when you can see clearly the only One who is remaining beside you.

Without problems you will never learn that God is the only real problem solver. God uses pain to teach you to depend on Him, The truth is some things we only learn through pain.

Pain actually makes you humble, sympathetic and sensitive to others’ needs. It prepares you to serve. When we turn to God for healing from our source of pain He comforts us and gives us the help we need,

If you are honest and open about your hurts God can use and recycle the pain in your life to help others. Who better to help a person in distress than someone who has struggled with and overcame a problem?

The moment you step across the line and become a believer, you become a missionary. You become part of God’s great plan of reaching out to hurting lost people. Do you realize there are only two things that we can’t do in heaven? To Sin and to share the Good News with people who never heard it. Which of those do you think is the reason God is leaving you on earth? Obvious isn’t it?

There are people who need to hear your story. Simply tell people what happened to you, it is the most powerful kind of story. God wants to use you. Share your story. There is no greater accomplishment in life than helping someone find the assurance of heaven.

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