***This was originally posted on my Myspace blog on 8/15/08***
So many times we're focused on how we can obtain freedom from the negative in our own lives. When we keep the bad bottled up in us instead of deciding to use it for His glory, healing can never happen in our lives.
I experienced a deep, dark depression over several circumstances in my own life a couple years ago. So many things were going on and had happened to me. I can remember being at a point that I felt there was nothing left for me to give to God, my family, friends or my church. My prayer life consisted of prayers like this every single night: "Lord, I have nothing left. Just please don't let me wake up tomorrow. I'm tired of feeling this way. I'm tired of not knowing what to do."
God did perform a healing in my life through a very deep study of His Word. I surrendered to just making Him and my relationship with Him my top priority.
As God has healed me in a way that I really had started to doubt would ever happen, He has shown me that a complete healing does not occur until you turn around and use the very thing that was a stronghold in our lives to lift someone else up. Huh? You mean I have to share what I went through? What will people think? I'm supposed to have it all together. I'm not supposed to be the person with these feelings. I heard Beth Moore teaching once and she used a line that I just loved. "We need to adopt a new philosophy called 'cut the bull'."
Stop trying to be perfect and just be real. Read Isaiah 58 and you'll see that if you help people in need and pour out your life for those in need of what you have to give and then your healing will come. I'm always amazed how God can make things come full circle. God diffuses the negative situations in our life and then uses them to bring glory to Him and to help others in their own healing. That's when we can experience full redemption.
Things aren't complete until we allow God to use these things for His glory. That ruins the devil's day! The very thing he used for our destruction and to tear us down, we can now use for the properity of people to grow in their relationship with Christ.
No matter what kind of ditch we've rolled around in or what kind of pit we've been in, we can be whole again. Stop trying to hide your experience in the ditch and use it to help someone else.
Reach beyond yourself and touch someone in need. Lose yourself in His purpose.
Go on, do it! It'll ruin the devil's day!
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