your life's pains that God can use

[janny108]

I read a devotion about how God can use the pains in your life

 

[janny108]

I read a devotion about how God can use the pains in your life

to help others. Can anyone testify to this?

 

[Hospes]

to help others. Can anyone testify to this?

Through the genetic issues of my unborn son and his subsequent death, God taught me to see the mentally handicapped as he does.

 

[LoricaLady]

Having problems, or pains, causes me to press in closer to Messiah instead of to the world. I have learned that the world and my own "wisdom" are not enough, in fact are so often the sources of the problems.

Praying for you to have all your dross be turned to gold.

 

[DiscipleHeLovesToo]

the way you asked your question assumes that 'God...uses...pain...to help', does it not? but is this what He has said in His word to reborn believers?

what scripture(s) was the devotional based on?

 

[janny108]

the way you asked your question assumes that 'God...uses...pain...to help', does it not? but is this what He has said in His word to reborn believers?

what scripture(s) was the devotional based on?

Hebrews 5:8,9

 

[BFine]

Like the pains Joseph suffered, was
used to save not only his own kin but many
others also.

My "pains" were used to help
others...I learned early to forgive, seek
the Lord for healing and restoration--then I could
"minister" to others who suffered abuse by a family member or family members.

 

[DiscipleHeLovesToo]

Hebrews 5:8,9

Hebrews 5:8,9 is speaking of Jesus, not us. in the devotional you read, it is a half sentence taken out of context - taken in context, it is part of a series of scriptures that explain that Jesus suffered temptation the same as we do, yet did not sin. this is not saying that "God can use the pains in your life to help others."

God doesn't need to use pain - He has given us His word and His Holy Spirit to teach and guide us. pain may get people to shift their focus from themselves to God, but it is not God's way - His way is to instruct us through His word and lead us and and comfort us through the Holy Spirit.

2Ti 3:16-17 KJV
(16) All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
(17) That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

this does not say 'All scripture and pain is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness...'

1Jn 2:26-27 KJV
(26) These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
(27) But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.