To help someone with their unresolved issues, you must first deal with your own. If the medicine you\u2019re offering hasn\u2019t made you<\/i> whole, you will have no credibility when you try to apply it to the lives of others. Does that mean if you have unresolved issues, God won\u2019t use you? No, it\u2019s the broken who become masters at mending. But first, you must take time to be healed. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to talk about victory when you\u2019re experiencing defeat. When you\u2019re bleeding spiritually and emotionally, you can\u2019t treat people\u2019s problems with the same kind of aggressive faith you would have if you had already worked through the problem. Is it wrong to have a broken heart? No, for God \u2018heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a0147:3\u00a0NKJV) So let God make you whole so He can use you. In Old Testament times, you could not serve as a priest if you had an unhealed wound. This is why: <\/p>\n
(1) You wouldn\u2019t be up to par spiritually. <\/p>\n
(2) You couldn\u2019t get close to others in case they bumped into you and knocked your wound. <\/p>\n
(3) You couldn\u2019t be at your best because the pain was sapping your strength. <\/p>\n
(4) You would be afraid to talk about your wound in case people rejected you. You\u2019d conceal it and, most likely, you\u2019d become insecure, hypocritical or controlling in case someone suspected your secret. <\/p>\n
(5) Worst of all, you would be so busy working for God and taking care of others, you wouldn\u2019t have time to stop and take care of yourself. So, deal with your unresolved issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To help someone with their unresolved issues, you must first deal with your own. If the medicine you\u2019re offering hasn\u2019t made you whole, you will have no credibility when you try to apply it to the lives of others. Does that mean if you have unresolved issues, God won\u2019t use you? No, it\u2019s the broken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}