Your greatest ministry will flow out of your pain — not out of your strengths or your talents but out of the painful experiences of your life. Who can be more sympathetic than somebody who has already been through what another person is going through right now? Who can better help the parent of a special needs child than a parent who raised a special needs child? Who can better help somebody going through a bankruptcy than somebody who has gone through it before? Who can better help somebody experiencing the heartbreak of divorce than somebody who remembers how terrible it felt? Who can better help somebody who’s been abused or molested than somebody who has been abused or molested? Don’t waste your pain. If you hide it and hold it back, it doesn’t do any good. But if you’re honest with God and yourself and with other people, God can use the thing you hate the most in your life, that you’re most disappointed by, and that you wish had never happened. God says, You can’t change what happened to you. But I can use it for your benefit and for My purposes. When you’re willing to share your brokenness, I can use it to help other people. ~Rick Warren He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. ~2 Cor. 1:4 (NLT) Have a great day, friends! :D
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:38:19 +0000
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