"Face Your Pain: Transform Struggles into Strength & Embrace Healing in Faith 🙌🔥"

Unveiled Ladies Ministries

Welcome to Face Your Pain: Transform Struggles into Strength & Embrace Healing in Faith 🙌🔥! In this heartfelt episode on Unveiled Ladies Ministries, we dive deep into the difficult journey of confronting pain and turning it into a powerful source of strength. We believe that facing our inner struggles head-on is the first step toward true healing and transformation.  In this raw and honest conversation, I share personal stories of moments when pain felt unbearable and outline practical, faith-based strategies to help you confront and heal from your own challenges. Learn how to:  Identify and Face Your Pain: Understand the root causes of your struggles and embrace them as opportunities for growth. 🔍💔  Turn Pain into Power: Discover how to channel difficult emotions into strength through prayer, meditation, and scripture. 📖💪  Embrace a Healing Journey: Find hope and renewal in your everyday life, knowing that every struggle brings you closer to the transformative grace of God. 🙏✨  Join our community of believers who support one another through life's toughest battles. Together, let's turn our pain into a foundation for stronger, more resilient lives. No matter how deep the hurt, God’s love is your ultimate healer, and you have the power to rise above.  If this message inspires you, please like, comment, and subscribe. Share your own journey in the comments and let’s build a safe space to empower one another in faith and healing. Remember, every challenge is a stepping stone towards a brighter future!   #FaceYourPain #TransformStruggles #HealingInFaith #OvercomeChallenges #InnerStrength #EmbraceHealing #FaithAndResilience #UnveiledLadiesMinistries #RiseAbove #SpiritualEmpowerment

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00:00hey everyone today I'm drinking out of a really great coffee mug that says the struggle is real

00:16and so is God because indeed the struggle is real and I'm so glad that we have God to lean on

00:25especially in times like these as most of you know by now there was a shooting a mass shooting

00:34yesterday last evening 19 kids were killed at an elementary school two teachers it's devastating

00:41I've cried I've wept I've tried to reason within myself and I think about all those parents who

00:47dropped their kids off or who dropped put them on the bus and they said they love I love you dear

00:54love you son love you daughter and never see them again and then on top of that hearing reports that

01:02they're literally having to swap for DNA from the parents so they can identify the kids let you know

01:08how bad it was it was basically kids being slaughtered so I've been emotional and it's

01:16almost hard for me to even record today but I just I feel I need to do this I feel like the Lord has

01:21given me a message and actually it was a few weeks ago when I was flying home from California

01:27and I felt the Holy Spirit nudging me and I pulled out my phone and I always know when when God is

01:34trying to speak and I just begin typing feverishly like crazy and um I wrote a lot down but so I'm

01:42going to be looking at my computer a lot during today's segment reading it all um I think it's so

01:48important to address facing the pain that we feel inside um I'm thankful that our culture our society

01:58is now highlighting how important your emotional health is your mental health is and all these

02:04things that are going on inside our minds and our hearts and even the religious or the church work

02:09has jumped on board and eight nine years ago I was advocating for this it's been something I've been

02:15very passionate about and I'm seeing it starting to happen and I'm so thankful for that because

02:22there are people everywhere that need to know that they are not alone that need to know that

02:27they don't have to stay there permanently that they can get the help that they need but today I want to

02:32talk a little bit about facing your pain we all have things inside that we need to address and I call

02:41it you got to face yourself in the mirror and say all right girlfriend it's time to face what's going

02:47on inside if you really want to move on if you really want to do all these dreams and all these things

02:51you're going to have to face what's going on inside because really when we don't face it we prolong our

02:57true happiness we prolong what God is trying to do inside of us because we won't face it heal and let go

03:03and give it to God so um like I said I may be reading a lot um because I wrote all of this down

03:11but um your mind plays tricks on you when you're in pain you lash out at others you make rash decisions

03:19you hurt those close to you and you put walls up and I I've been there so I am definitely speaking

03:28from experience on this I have been there I'm sure many of you have been there some of you are there

03:32right now don't let the pain you're in keep you stuck on yesterday's trauma don't let the pain

03:38that has wrapped its tentacles around you keep you tied to that specific event that ended up breaking

03:45your heart don't allow the pain to continue to make your decisions don't allow the pain to be the

03:55pain that keeps you paralyzed for the rest of your life face your pain I know it's not easy it's not

04:04comfortable doing it I remember when I had moved to DC Washington DC to I had this passion for politics

04:12and I remember moving there and I was all excited I was offered this incredible job on K Street and the

04:19government relations office so I was going to be working with the secret service um and um actually

04:27homeland security more is more who we worked with and it was all wrapped up in that bubble called

04:33politics and so I really was enjoying it I was loving it but I threw myself into my career there

04:39and I began to work around the clock 24 7 I mean it was all the time I became what you would call a

04:49workaholic then on top of that I would meet all my girlfriends we would usually meet for dinner around

04:558 o'clock sometimes 9 30 or sometimes we just meet at 10 30 and just go out for the night but we would

05:02start clubbing around um this is when I was partying away and I was probably running from God but we would

05:09start clubbing around 10 30 11 I wouldn't get home till like 2 2 2 2 30 sometimes 3 a.m then I would

05:16sleep real quick for a few hours get back up around 6 ish jump in the shower get dressed real quick and be

05:21back at work grab some coffee I always had to make coffee get back at work and work all day again it was

05:28this is what I did this was my life but I was numbing my pain I was self-medicating myself thinking if I

05:37just work work work work go out out club dance have a blast with all these friends meet all these guys

05:43and have fun it's gonna heal me it's or more likely I was thinking in my mind it's going to help me

05:50forget I'm fine I moved out of that physically I moved on but I was still all messed up I mean I was

05:58literally numbing my pain and that's what so many people do today but numbing the pain won't bring him

06:10or her back numbing the pain won't make everything normal again numbing the pain won't bring you peace

06:16and joy it won't bring you satisfaction the satisfaction that you're looking for it will only

06:21bring you anxiety sadness regret wishing and can cause you to even spiral into a pit of depression

06:28and I wrote this thing down to that I think is so needed you will never become comfortable in the

06:36silence while you are numbing your pain right when you numb your pain you only prolong your true happiness

06:43you only prolong you moving forward when you numb your pain I want to zone in on this right here

06:50it affects your close-knit relationships it affects your marriage it affects your family

06:56your children it affects your job the ministry that you're involved in it affects everything you

07:02touch everything you do affects what you are tied to so it's easy for us to throw ourselves into our

07:10careers our hobbies our ministries everything that we're passionate about to numb our pain we self-medicate

07:18by throwing ourselves into things that we think are going to help us move on and to forget because

07:23we don't want to face the person in the mirror and I understand it's not easy it's a process

07:30when you numb your pain you take the risk of sabotaging all that God has for you

07:35numbing your pain can push you into doing things that you thought you would never do right here listen

07:41to this it can cause you to become codependent on things that will destroy you and push you into

07:48the arms of people who will lead you down a path of destruction when you numb your pain here it is

07:55your spiritual intuition becomes distorted when your emotional health is off it can also affect your

08:03spiritual health face it today and become whole Psalm 34 18 says the Lord is near the brokenhearted

08:11and saves the crushed in spirit Proverbs 3 5 and 6 trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not

08:17lean do not lean ladies on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make

08:25your path straight I encourage you if you've been numbing your pain I'm not knocking you because I've

08:33done my pain more than once I encourage you to face your pain to face the person in the mirror and say

08:39girlfriend it's time to face it it's time to address it it's time to get help it's time to unlock all the

08:46things that are in my mind in my heart and start discarding them start giving them to Jesus and I encourage

08:53you to go see a Christian counselor talk to your pastor a safe friend join a support group find people that you can

09:00talk to do not fight this alone you can get through this if I can get through it I held on to it for years

09:08self-medicating and all these things that were not healing me at all but there came a point where I had to

09:15face myself in the mirror and say all right Stephanie we're done doing this we're done playing this game

09:19it's time to face it and to get serious about your purpose in life you need to heal so you can move on

09:27amen all right ladies that's the word for today I hope you all have a blessed day God bless you

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