Trust in God? Easier said than done. Am-I-right?
But what if you learned to radically shift your mindset and prayer and started believing God for your healing?
Health problems can be very serious or minute and God cares for them all the same.
What if, instead of throwing a pity party or feeling defeated, you change your prayer? If you struggle with how to pray, download my free structure of prayer guide to get you started in prayer.
Learning to Trust in God
I was struggling and suffering from a chronic illness. I was pity partying it up. I was annoyed, aggravated and angry. I was praying selfish prayers. That was until I heard someone say, “pray that you suffer well.”
Man, did that hit me hard. I was not suffering well by any means.
I transformed my prayer from “help me and heal me” to “let me suffer well and glorify You.”
Boy of boy, did things change. I stopped feeling so defeated and like I was losing a constant battle. I started to have hope again. I started to look up. I started to pray with expectancy. I prayed with trust in God.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NLT) says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”
My conversations with others looked different, too. I began to use my pain to connect with others and their struggles. I could speak on God easing my pain as I prayed with expectancy. Because finally, as I was praying and changing my mindset, God was easing my pain. He was healing me as I trusted in Him more and more.
I was in a season of prayer and seeking God to allow me to suffer well and heal me in time. While praying, my husband and I decided for me to go on a mission trip (that we couldn’t really afford, but we trusted God to provide). We were both praying for healing and agreed that I should go serve God while we prayed. Not only did God provide financially, he also provided me with hope.
God Moment
On the first day of the kid’s camp I was helping with in Costa Rica, I sat next to a woman who had the same diagnosis I had just received two months prior to this trip. I was praying for healing and went on this trip seeking healing and literally met a stranger with the exact same issue. Definitely a God moment. She went on to give me lots of pointers, wise advice and prayer. She is now walking completely healed of Interstitial Cystitis (a chronic painful bladder disorder that isn’t very common) and has instilled hope in me.
God sent me on that trip to meet her. She gave me hope and set a wonderful example of how to suffer well. So, while I’m still struggling, I’m hopeful and praying with expectancy. I’m using my pain as a mission field to help others who are suffering. I want everyone to know there’s a hope of healing in Jesus.
So even on the toughest of tough days, God is with me and He’s teaching me to trust in Him.
Trust In God For Your Healing
In what ways do you need to suffer well? How can you use your health conditions to honor God?
Maybe this looks like you quietly praying each day for God to change your mindset, or giving you someone with a similar struggle to walk through this journey with you, or even to show how he healed someone else with the same condition. Whatever it may be, just pray for guidance and for you to suffer well.
Your pain will not be wasted. He will use it all for good.
Prayers:
- Pray for God to use your pain for good
- Pray for God to help you suffer well
- Pray for hope
- Pray for someone else to come alongside you and pray with you through the struggle
Healing isn’t always some instant miracle, although it can be, it’s slow and trusting day in and day out.
Health problems are much deeper than we really realize. It’s more than just physical symptoms, it’s spiritual. Learn how to pray to combat your illnesses.
God is at work in you and in me!
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I pray you suffer well and that Heavenly things constantly interrupt earthly things.
