In today's episode, we're talking about pain – the physical suffering and discomfort we experience in life. When we feel pain, we often want to run away, especially if it comes from an abusive relationship. In such cases, it's important to seek help and get out.
Sometimes, pain can make us withdraw from God, our loved ones, and even positive experiences. It causes us to protect ourselves. We may wish to avoid pain altogether, but it's a part of life. Instead of praying for it to go away, we can pray for strength to endure it and take steps towards healing.
Even in our pain and hurt, God is at work. We may have experienced pain without feeling His presence, but we want to grow stronger in faith and have Him with us through tough times.
Sometimes, pain results from our own choices, like Jonah in the Bible. It can be a wake-up call for positive changes in our lives.
Pain can also be a good thing. It prompts us to take action and make necessary changes. Being grateful for the lessons we learn through pain can lead to personal growth and stronger relationships.
Ultimately, pain can lead to heart changes, better health, career improvements, a more positive mindset, and stronger family bonds. Embracing pain as a path to growth helps us navigate life's challenges with thankfulness.
God promises in Exodus 3:17, Friends if you will quit running, I will help you and bring you to a land flowing with milk and honey.
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In today's episode, we're talking about pain – the physical suffering and discomfort we experience in life. When we feel pain, we often want to run away, especially if it comes from an abusive relationship. In such cases, it's important to seek help and get out.
Sometimes, pain can make us withdraw from God, our loved ones, and even positive experiences. It causes us to protect ourselves. We may wish to avoid pain altogether, but it's a part of life. Instead of praying for it to go away, we can pray for strength to endure it and take steps towards healing.
Even in our pain and hurt, God is at work. We may have experienced pain without feeling His presence, but we want to grow stronger in faith and have Him with us through tough times.
Sometimes, pain results from our own choices, like Jonah in the Bible. It can be a wake-up call for positive changes in our lives.
Pain can also be a good thing. It prompts us to take action and make necessary changes. Being grateful for the lessons we learn through pain can lead to personal growth and stronger relationships.
Ultimately, pain can lead to heart changes, better health, career improvements, a more positive mindset, and stronger family bonds. Embracing pain as a path to growth helps us navigate life's challenges with thankfulness.
God promises in Exodus 3:17, Friends if you will quit running, I will help you and bring you to a land flowing with milk and honey.
And don't just listen—run on over and join the No More Running email list and share your thoughts with a podcast review.
Join the newly added No More Running Facebook group.
Would you like to do some one-one Coaching with Crystal? You can go to www.crystalloyd.com and click on coaching and connect with her on No More Running Facebook and Instagram @crystalloyd2
Have you ever found yourself running? Running mentally, emotionally, spiritually, financially and even running physically from things in this life. This is no More Running. The podcast for women. Hello, I'm your host, crystal Lloyd, and I've been known to run and still find myself running from the things in this life. Running from God, His calling, his purpose for my life. Running from change that's within my control, that needs to be made, or any type of change. Running from hard or even good or even just simple little things in this life. And God said to me Crystal, if you will stop running and surrender, there are things that we can accomplish together. Maybe you find yourself running as I have. I want you to know that you're not alone. Let's go from running to no More Running together. Let's get started with prayer, holy Spirit, we invite you to be a part of the podcast, the lessons, the life coaching and the sharing of our stories. Let it be known today that you are God. God, help us to go from running in this life, from whatever it may be that we're running from, from running to no More Running. In Jesus' name.
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Hello friends, today we're going to do a little different. I'm actually not in my office, in my corner, in my bedroom. I'm actually on my deck and looking at the Smoky Mountains and is sitting here and I'm trying something new, something different, to record and hopefully to help me get over the anxiety of recording. I can write, I can get the content, I can study, I can prepare, but when it comes to recording the next episode, it's like I have some anxiety with just putting myself out there, putting my voice out there. I'm trying something different and a different recording device, hopefully, maybe, instead of just being in my office and out here on the beautiful deck and you may be able to hear birds and the trees and the wind. Also, there's a blue-tailed lizard out here. So fun, fun, fun. So hopefully it stays away from me.
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In today's episode, our topic is pain, and who wants to talk about pain? Who wants to do a podcast on pain? I was like, oh really, but I feel like that the Lord gave this to me. We all experience pain from time to time in different areas in our life and of course, I had to look up the word pain. I like to know the meanings of words, but pain means physical suffering or discomfort caused by. We can name so many different things that pain is caused by, and when we feel pain or discomfort, it makes us want to run down. It I know it does for me is like if I feel pain, any pain, any slightly kind of pain or hurt, I'm gone, I'm running, I'm heading in the different direction and really what? Maybe the direction I should be heading in and but it makes me want to run.
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But I will say this I want to stop, and I want to say this before we move on is I want you to know that if you are experiencing pain right now and you're you're in an abusive relationship of some kind and Getting abused physically, emotionally, verbally please know that you do not have to have permission to run from that. I know that this podcast is is named and no more running, but there's going to be times where I'm going to tell you to run, and this is a time that I'm going to tell you if you are experiencing physical pain from someone or something, or Emotional pain or verbally Abusive, whatever the pain may be and you need to get away from that pain and you need to Run away and I'm going to give you permission if you need permission. You've got my permission and and so please do that, please seek help and run from that Maybe it's an unhealthy Relationship and get help, whatever it may be, like I said, physically, mentally, emotionally, verbally, or, of course, if you've been abused sexually, please run and don't stay in that abuse. Don't stay in that pain. Do that and reach out to me or reach out to a counselor or Authorities or whatever you have to do. So I wanted to stop there and I want to say that because I'm very big on if you are experiencing pain in some kind of abuse, please run, please go and get help. Something that I saw my mom do and stay in for years was an abusive relationship and she was physically getting abused Her first husband who I thought that was my dad, her while and he would hit on her and beat on her and she would Leave and then come back and leave and come back and and please, I just want you to know that If you're experiencing that type of pain, please run, please get here.
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So, anyways, we sometimes we do feel pain and we we should run from pain when it's in that situation, but then sometimes pain can be a good thing in our life. I know at times that pain does make us withdrawal. It makes us withdraw from God, god's people. If we're Experiencing pain in our marriage of some sort, we withdraw from our husband, or even the pain within our adult children Maybe they've said some hurtful things to us, or you know, whatever we withdraw from them or our friends or co-workers, you know, when we feel that pain, it's almost like it's like a turtle for me. It's like when I feel that pain, I want to go back in my shell, I want to hide, I don't want to come out again, I don't want to experience that pain. So I avoid that particular person or that situation or whatever, which sometimes that's a good thing. But then sometimes remember, pain can be a good thing because it does Alert us to something, that something needs to change. And I have an example for you.
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My daughter Experienced some pain in her eye. We were going shopping Because there's a baby coming in our family and so there was a baby shower coming up and so we had to go shopping, shopping, shopping. So y'all called up and I, his, was truck and we picked her up and we picked our grandbaby up and I Saw her eye and it was very red. She also had her thing I believe she had her glasses on that day and I was like have you seen your eye? What's wrong with your eye? Of course I was being that helicopter mom. What is wrong? What would you? What'd you do, what? And she said I don't know, but it hurt really bad. And so I'm like do you need to go to the urgent care? Do you need to go to the doctor? Do you need to go to the eye doctor? Do you need to anyway?
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So she continued to have pain throughout the day and then the next day I then the wonderful mother that I am called her, and was like how's her eye? Is it still red? Is it? Do you need to go to the eye doctor? Do you need to make an appointment? And do you? So, anyway, she ended up needing to.
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She was in even more pain and needing to go to the eye doctor and she made an eye doctor's appointment and they were able to get her in that same day. So, love our eye doctor, so glad that they were able to get her in and they took her seriously about the pain. So she went and they looked at her eye and they were so thankful that she felt the pain and that she called immediately because they had said that she could have lost her eye or her vision if she would not have paid attention to that pain and went into action to call the eye doctor and made that appointment, and she had to end up having drops put in her out in her eye every hour on the hour and when she slept she had to get up every two hours in the night to put these eye drops. In that she had an infection in her eye, and so I am so thankful, we are so thankful that she felt the pain and that that pain got worse, because if it had not got worse, she would not have been moved to action. So I am so thankful that she paid attention to that pain and that she did not ignore that pain, because it saved her eye, it saved her eye sight and I am so thankful that just that that she was.
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I guess to me it's like she's so much better than me because I would have probably ignored it and kept ignoring it and kept ignoring it and running from it. I am just making this pain up or it's not really happening. It's not as bad as really I can handle this, but I have been known to have a low tolerance of pain, but I want to be stronger when pain comes in my life, but sounds like this we don't need to ignore things like this. If you are experiencing pain in a relationship, or pain in a marriage, or pain in your physical body that needs attention, that needs to be done something with, don't ignore those things. Get the help you need. Go step into the action that needs to be taken.
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But a lot of times I know that when I am in pain in some sort of way, I am always praying Lord, take it away, take it away, lord, take the pain away, take the pain away and take the hurt away. Take the hurt away, take the discomfort away, take the disappointment away, when really I need to pay attention to that pain and I need it to move me to my next right step. Whatever that may be that we need to make sure that we do that. But I would rather not experience pain at all. Or I really really want to be stronger in that. But I want to be magically stronger without going through any pain or any hurt or any discomfort. I just want to be, snap my fingers and be strong. So when pain comes, I am strong. I can handle this okay, I can get through it myself, but there are times where we can't get through it ourselves.
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Sometimes we have to reach out to God for help and reach out to others for help, and sometimes you might need to be that helicopter parent, but maybe it's to a friend or a co-worker or your children, and you make sure that they get the help that they need, because sometimes within that pain, we just can't take that next right step or in that hurt or discomfort or that disappointment, and sometimes need that friend that will push us, that coach, maybe that will push us, and so I am so thankful that I have those friends in my life that won't let me stay stuck like I did for years. But until I reached out for help I didn't go anywhere. I stayed stuck. I stayed in that pain, and so I am hoping that you will not stay stuck in that pain. You will reach out for help. Let's take a quick break. I am excited to tell you that I am offering life coaching. If you are interested in coaching with me or want to learn more, run on over to my website CrystalLloydcom that's Crystal with a C and Lloyd with one L and sign up for a free 20 minute coaching session with me. Also, don't forget to join my email list. You can email me info at crystalloycom, that way to help you to go from running to know more running.
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Know that Dr David Jeremiah says this don't be discouraged. God is at work Even in times of great tribulation. God is at work even in the pain, even in the hurt. So, even though this that I know the first times in my life that where I did experience pain and I did experience her, and I Wondered where you at, though, for you at in this pain, in this hurt. I mean, am I here alone by myself? What's happening, lord? What are you doing? What are you allowing to happen to me? But God's at work. Believe that. Know that that God is at work even in our, even in our hurt and Disappointments, because, just like my daughters, I having that pain and her experiencing that pain was a good thing. It saved her eye, it saved her.
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I saw, I know that there's times in my life, in my childhood, that I would experience pain and I Wondered where God was. Did he hear? Was he there? Why is he letting me go through this? And even with the church hurt that we've experienced, were you at? How are you at work in this. It hurts, it's too painful. Lord, I know that I'm not alone in this and maybe you can relate to. Maybe you're right there right now, now asking God the same question why, or are you, are you allowing this to happen, this pain in the rock? But again, sometimes pain is a good thing. So it means this interaction on avoid that pain, don't run from that pain and hit it head on, head on.
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I think about this. Head pain can sometimes be a good thing because, think about it matters the pain, a child, though if we did not experience that pain then we could not have our children and that's a good pain. But sometimes there is times in our life and I don't like this either but there's times in our life where we cause the pain. I think about Jonah, that podcast that I did about Jonah, the runner in part one and part two. So if you haven't listened to that podcast, go back and listen to it. But John of the cost is on paint be Revealed against what God was calling him and instructing him to do. And God had planned and he ran from. There's reasons that he ran from it, that he still was disobedient and he still caused those storms and that pain in his life.
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I'm not pointing any fingers because I've been there, just like Jonah, I've caused my own pain and my own life and my own marriage wife's. I've done that in my own Life with my adult children. All came there. It's my fault. I was too much of a helicopter mom and I laughed that. You know, all things work out, but sometimes I cause my own.
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But maybe something needs to change, needs to happen in our marriage, in our heart, in our job, in our families and sometimes we have to go through the pain to get what we are today, to get to a better place In our life, a better place, spiritual. Some sometimes need to happen. Some pains need to happen so that we can grow from there. And then when we make it through those pains in our lives, in our marriage, you know, in our adult children, with our adult children, with our church or our spiritual life, we look back. Thank you, god for that pain, that hurt, that disappointment that they come in our lives, just like maybe in our marriage. Thank you, god, it made our marriage better.
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Now that I can see that God has given me my husband as a gift to enjoy life together, to laugh and cry, to dream together, to explore, to do a podcast together. It opened my eyes to the change that needs to happen and I'm grateful and thankful that some pain has come in my life. Will I ever, ever be able to say that I'm thankful that I was a beauty to the know, to the Know? But I can look back and think because of that pain, because of that abuse, I am stronger. Because of it, because I went through that, I am a bold woman in what I believe and what I stand for. Because I went through that abuse or I went through that hurt, I'm a strong woman, I'm a strong mother, I'm a strong wife. And you know, I had actually forgot how strong I am and maybe you too, maybe you forgot all that you've went through, all that God's brought you through, and that you are a strong woman because of the pain that came in your life, because of that abuse that came in your life.
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You know, pain can bring a heart change, a health change, a change in your job, a change in your business, the change in your mindset. I will tell you this from Pastor Rick Warren said this our greatest witness to this world is how we handle pain. I'm not a very good witness because I again I said, I've got a low tolerance of pain. I want to be strong in this area but of course I don't want to go through the pain to get stronger. But I love that. Our greatest witness to this world is how we handle pain and I know the story of Rick Warren and the pain that he has went through and his family has went through and, wow, what a witness he has.
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But I want you to know if you are experiencing pain right now, whether it's physical, emotionally, mentally, verbally, whatever kind of abuse I want you to know that God and God tells us that God hears, god sees, god knows and God is concerned with you. Because when I was studying and I felt like God gave me this podcast for pain pain what? But I asked God. So I was writing down all these things and I'm like but what's your word say about it? And that's what I wanted. I wanted to know because I had an open relationship with God and I was telling everything, asking everything and I believe that's how you insist to be an open, honest relationship and I'm like okay, pain, I don't like it, I run from it. I know it's a good thing, I know sometimes I bring it on myself, lord, but I want to know what your word says about it, god. And he is so good and so faithful to answer. And he answered and I want you all to know this that God sees your pain, god hears your pain, god knows your pain and God is concerned with your pain.
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He showed me Exodus, chapter three, seven and eight, about the Israel lives and the pain that they were going through. They were getting abused, they were getting beaten and God saw this and he heard what was going on and he was concerned. And then that's where Moses comes in the picture. God will send someone to help you through this pain. Asking, asking to send somebody. Lord, help me. I can't do this on my own. I need somebody to help me through this pain, to help me through this hurt, to help me through this disappointment.
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And I believe God sent Moses. He did, I know he did. The word of God says he did to deliver the Israelites out of their pain. And God himself will come down to rescue you. And he did that. Through Moses, god is the one who will free you. Listen, if you are in pain right now, do not know, but go to God's word.
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Look at Exodus three, how he delivered the Israelites, his people, out of slavery, out of the hurt, out of the abuse, out of the pain that they were experiencing, and remember God what he did for his people, reminded, reminded God what he did for his people, and say to God God, this is exactly what I need you to do for me. You see the pain that I'm experiencing. Send somebody to help me, lord, help me, help me, god, you help me, lord. I know that you see this, I know that you hear this, I know that you're concerned, but I need your help, god, to make it through this pain, to take my next step, whatever that is, out of this pain, out of this hurt, out of this abuse. Bring me up out of this misery, bring me up out of the misery, out of this pain. And God will do that. He is faithful, just like he was faithful to his people, that Israelite, and he used Moses to bring his people up out of slavery, up out of abuse, up out of pain and hurt. And God promises that he will deliver his people and he will heal. He will bring healing.
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And also, I love Exodus 3, 17. He says that he will bring you and help you to a land flowing with milk and honey. So if you're in pain right now you're, you've been hurt, you're discouraged. God will bring you up out of that. But I love also that the, the Israelites, their pain, cry out even more to God to cry out, to cry out, and I know that they suffered for years, and some of you. I know that you've suffered for years with your pain and I just I pray for healing for you today. But remind God, remind Him and say God, I need you to come, as you did for the Israelites in the Mala, and see my heart, hear my heart, be concerned with my heart, hurt and deliver me from this pain. And, friends, if you would just quit running, God will bring you, he will help you to the land flowing with milk and honey. Thank you, friends.
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I hope this has encouraged you and please go back and read Exodus, chapter 3, where God, you know, talks to Moses through the burning bush, and how he, you know, is calling Moses to deliver his people out of their pain, out of their hurt, and that God himself. He did that and he will do that for you as friends, and I love you, friends, and please don't do this alone. Reach out to me, reach out to a friend and then, if you don't know how to do that, ask God to bring that person that will help you as well. Just like he prepared Moses, just like he used Moses, he can and will bring you that person to help you. You need not help. Reach out. If you need someone's help, the authority's help, please reach out. If you are experiencing physical pain, love you, please do that.
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And, lord, I think about some of my friends that are in hospitals because maybe cancer has been in pain physically. Right that you will be with them and be concerned about them and deliver them as well. Or, however, you can do it, or do the doctors or whatever, virtually. Lord, I think they need to be delivered spiritually. God, I just pray, all right, but when you see their pain, they can start with their pain and bring them healing. In the name of Jesus, I pray you. Friends Until next time. Hey, don't forget. You can sign up for the no More Running email list at info at CrystalLoydcom and make sure to like, share and follow. We would love for you to leave a review for the podcast. This helps us reach even more women who might find themselves running as well, gotta run.