How to Turn Your Pain into Power and Persevere Through Your Problems

LaWann Moses 0:00
Hi, it’s LaWann and I’m back with you again. I previously uploaded this episode from a live broadcast that I had done back over the holidays.

The audio before was hard to hear because of the excitement of the crowd. So I decided to go ahead and rerecord it and give it to you all. So to get here the dynamic message. Today, I want you to remember how important it is to keep going. How you must never give up. No matter what comes across your path. No matter what happens. It’s up to you to never give up. Never quit and just keep going. So here’s for you never give up.

How many of you have ever made plans to go somewhere? Have you ever had the best laid plans? You plan for your big day, your big moment for months. You get your tickets, make your reservations, have your plans all set up with everything lined up and ready to go. then boom, something happens. life gets in the way. And suddenly everything is turned upside down.

You don’t even know what to do, what to think what to say or how to act. Your best laid plans are messed up.

Your life perhaps is turned upside down. Everything is just out of whack and you are left just looking around like Now what? What should you do? What’s going to happen? What’s your next move?

When you’re in that moment of now what you may not always know what to do, you may not always have all the answers. But the one thing you do have is God and the tides of now what sometimes you just have to be still and wait on God.

Psalms 46:10 says, ” Be still and know that I am God”. I want you to know that God makes no mistakes and if you seek Him, He will give you the answers that you need. It may not happen right away, but trust that no matter what you are going through, God is with you.

It is just up to you to keep on going. And it’s up to you to just keep on going. Take it one day at a time. Never give up.

Now real quick, I want to give you three things to focus on while you are going through hard times. It’s easy to focus on what’s going wrong and what’s missing.

But here’s what I need you to do. The first thing I need you to do is find a way to turn your pain into power. Behind every experience, every mishap every mistake, lies a lesson. It is up to you whether you let the situation have power over your life, or whether you will reclaim your power in the situation. No matter what users experience this situation, this time in your life to propel you to your next don’t allow the pain to consume you.

Yes, your situation may not be what you want it to be. But each day that you lay down and you get a chance to wake up the next morning, you have the chance to do something different Let your pain be your power. Let it be your motivation.

Reclaim Your power and just keep pushing. I want you to know how important it is to just keep pushing, and how important it is to reclaim your power. No one has power over your life unless you give it to them. It is up to you to maintain your peace to protect your power and go after the life that you desire. When we reclaim the power over our lives, we take the control away from outside systems from outside people, from everyone that wants to have an input. We’re just saying no, this is my life. This is what I have going on. Yes, the situation may have happened to me, but I’m not going to let it dictate the course of my life. I am not going to let it have power over me. I reclaim my power and I’m going after everything I want. So no matter what happens, that pain you feel that hurt you feel whatever it is that is going on inside of you. I just want you to tap into that That pain, tap into that situation, figure out what is going on and turn that pain into power. There is power behind every experience power behind every situation. 

And once you’re able to tap into that power and use that pain as your motivation, you are unstoppable. The next thing I need you to know is that there are hitting blessings behind every struggle. Let me say that again. In case you didn’t hear me, behind every struggle, there is a hidden blessing. And it may be multiple blessings. The season you’re in right now, the things that you are experiencing, it may be the most trying most difficult, most painful, the hardest time of your life. But there is a purpose behind this. And the reason for all of this. There is purpose behind these circumstances purpose behind this struggle, purpose behind this hardship. Don’t miss out on the lesson that you need to learn through every struggle, because there is a blessing that is going to come from it.

Sometimes you find yourself going through the same situation over and over and over again. And you can’t figure out why does this keep happening to me? Why do I keep experiencing the same things? And just why is this going on? What is happening? And then you just get caught up in that problem. You get caught up in what’s going on family to see that sometimes that problem is just set as a distraction. That’s right, we get so caught up in what’s going on, that we become distracted by the problem. So I want you to know that problems are just set as distractions to throw you off track. Think about it. How many times have you been going along, things have been running smoothly. Everything is lining up, then some That happens, it problem arises, and you in essence become so obsessed and so distracted by this problem that you forget all about what you had going on. And all of your attention goes to this problem. Can you relate to that because I know it happens to me a lot. But then one day, as I was sitting, reflecting in my quiet time, I heard God say to me, don’t let this problem distract you. And that’s when I realized that problems are merely distractions. When you’re on your destiny, when you’re moving towards your goal, when you’re taking it step by step, putting plans into action, the enemy does not want to see you win, so he’s going to throw anything at you, to throw you off track.

However, if you switch up your thought process, change your mindset and switch up the narrative. Then instead of focusing on the problem, you begin to focus on the lesson. Instead of being distracted by the problem. You begin to see and begin to think about it as Okay, what am I Supposed to learn from this situation. You figure out what you’re supposed to learn during this moment, you see the greatness that lies within your struggle. And you find that blessings come from this temporary hardship. So I encourage you the next time a problem comes your way, the next time something happens, don’t get all caught up in it. Don’t spend endless time worrying over it, thinking about it.

Just a problem. Get on out of here. I have bigger goals to achieve. I have things that I’m moving towards and I cannot be distracted by this outside source. I have a plan. I have plans to put into action. I have things going on. And I am not going to let this problem come and distract me and take my focus off the good that I am doing and the things that I’m working towards. I want you to realize that these are temporary situations, temporary hardships, temporary problems that will lead you to a lifetime of blessings. Be patient. Keep pushing Experience is often life’s greatest teacher. 

Lastly, I need you to take notes on your experience. That’s right. Take some notes, reflect on what you’re going through the things that are happening to you. You may journal it down, you may audio recorded, but just take notes on your experience, so that you will never forget this moment in time. For one day, you will look back and you’ll be able to tell the story of how you overcame your situation. And God will sit you in rooms, put you on platforms where people that need to hear your story and need to hear from you. And that’s right. I’m sitting right here and you are listening to a miracle. God gave me the platform so that I can sit and tell my story and encourage and empower others out here. So take notes on your experience. Never forget for one day it will be your turn to use your story to empower someone else and help them along Their journey and case no one ever told you, the season will pass. You will make it through. You will make it through this obstacle you will make it through the next obstacle you will make it through the next struggle for this is only temporary, for this is just a season and you are going to make it through for a reason. 

You will overcome this hardship for a reason. You will beat the illness for a reason. You will rise up and rise above your situation for a reason. When it comes down to it, you are living for a reason. And your life has a purpose and you are here with breath in your body for a reason. Even if you are in the middle of your mess right now. Just know when you get to the other side, you will have a powerful story to tell you survived everything. That’s right. You survived everything that was meant to take you out all those things I should have made you quit all those things. Just Made you give up all those thing that should have made you throw in the towel you made it through. It’ll be up to you to reach back and help someone else. reach back to your fellow brother, your fellow sister, your fellow Mama, who her up, pull them up and help them make it through, help them to survive. Difficulties will come. But it’s all about how you handle yourself during those times. Some days will be harder than others. Even when you make it through, you’re going to encounter hard days and don’t let anyone tell you different. No matter what someone is presenting to you. No matter how they look to you, no matter what they’ve accomplished right now at this point in their life. Everyone goes through something day after day. Their store may not look like yours. Their situation may not look like yours, but hard days come for everyone.

But it’s all about how to handle those hard days. It’s up to you to keep the faith and stay Focus on the greater mission at hand. It’s so hard to get distracted, as I said earlier by the problem, but just know that even when it gets hard if you stay focused, keep the faith and just keep on pushing that you can and you will make it through and that you’ll get there. Stay in courage. Recognize that there never is a right time. There never is a perfect moment. The only time you have is right now. And it is what you do right now that matters. If you keep waiting for the perfect time, if you keep waiting for all the stars to line up, you’re going to spend your whole life waiting. And I want to encourage you to stop waiting. Take advantage of the time you have right now. Get up and go after everything that you have ever wanted. Everything that you’ve always wanted to do just any dream goal, whatever it is, that’s in your vision, get up and go after it for it’s yours. stay the course Don’t give up. Quitting is not an option.

And guess what the spoiler alert is, in the end, you will win. You will look back and you will be able to say, I never gave up. Thank you for listening. I hope this episode encouraged you. I hope it empowered you to just stay the course and to keep on going. For the race may be difficult. The race may be hard, but it’s up to you to stay the course. never quit. Never give up. Remember, it may get hard, it will always be easy. But you’ve got this. Until next time. This is LaWann with the more than a mother podcast, and we’ll see you next time. 

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