What Your Trial is Producing

Welcome back to The Warrior Woman Podcast with your host, Janell Peart-Gunter. 🌿⚔️

In this Episode, we tackle a difficult but necessary truth: What Your Trial is Producing.

Nobody asks for painful seasons. Nobody prays for heartbreak, disappointment, rejection, or pressure. Yet some of the strongest, wisest, and most purpose-filled versions of ourselves are born through trials we almost didn’t survive.

In this episode, we explore how God uses pressure to:
✨ build character
✨ strengthen faith
✨ reveal purpose
✨ produce kingdom fruit
✨ draw us closer to Him

Through biblical examples like Joseph, David, and even the life of Jesus Christ, we uncover how trials are often preparation for purpose. I also shared a personal testimony about disruption, rebuilding, and discovering voice through one of the hardest seasons of my life.

This is not an episode about pretending trials feel good.
This is an honest conversation about how pain can become productive when placed in God’s hands.

📖 Main Scripture:
James 1:2–4

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Transcript

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Daddy, I don't know. Welcome back, Warriors, to another episode in our podcast. Before I go any further, I want to take a moment just to welcome our new subscribers that have joined the family. I think I've seen roughly 70 something um new subscribers that have you know recently joined the community. Thank you for taking the time to be a part of us. I am extremely grateful that you found it necessary to hit the subscribe button and also the post notification bell. All right, so we're growing. We are growing. Um I've I've I've never getting used to the fact that uh you know people are interested. Whenever people like, you know, send uh messages uh telling me how blessed they were by the previous episode or you know how much um they're being encouraged. I'm like, oh my god, oh my god, can't believe it, you know. But um I am just thankful that the Lord would have seen it fit to use me, you know, in this time and in this season. I feel extremely honored. All right, so for those of us who are new here, my name is Janelle, and one of the mandates that the Lord would have placed on my life is to use my book. The first book that uh he would have inspired me to write, every word that was in it, that is in it, was inspired by him. I use that book as a voice to reach many nations. Since the book wasn't going as uh fast as I was expecting it to, or far as I was expecting it to, right, the Lord showed me another way in which I could reach people. And I have to say that I am just always so blown away with the emails that I receive, you know, and um just the feedback that I sometimes get in the comment sections, like, wow, people are you know really watching me. Um, and the WhatsApp messages that I get too, like what? You know, so God is good. So what happens is that you know, the topics that I would have covered in the book, I covered them on the podcast, but uh from a different angle. So the book would be the theoretical view and uh the podcast, you know, me sitting down talking to myself, talking to the screen and to you guys is basically giving like a you know a practical uh review of everything. You know, you get to hear real, you know, stories, real struggles, um, real growth, real feeling. Um, you know, because sometimes, whether we believe it or not, you know, people don't only need information, right, to get to the next of the buttons, you know, when they can get connection, that is extremely needed. When they can, you know, get the honesty uh from somebody else who are on the same journey that they're on, right? When they can actually see or hear that someone is going through the same thing, or even rougher or harder, or you know, even more than they're going through. It it doesn't, it's not that it makes the the walk a little bit easier, but it it makes the walk or the journey a little bit less lonely. So I um, you know, I am extremely grateful for every single message that I would have received, all the testimonies, praise be to God. You know, I recommend you know, everybody who listens and uh you know shared their feedback. Thank you. And I want to encourage you to continue to, you know, um leave a comment in the comment section so that others, you know, can actually you know chime in sometimes. Um leave a word of encouragement if you think that if you feel led to, or even a word of prayer, you know, because people are out here always requesting for always uh needing someone to say that you know it's gonna be okay. Don't worry, man. It's gonna be all right. All right. So today, today, today, today, we are continuing on um in season three, um, and we're on episode number four. All right, so our topic for today and the chapter that we are in the book is about the benefits of trials, right? And I know that this is not something that you know uh we want to hear like trials of benefits that don't make the sense. How benefits that trials all the same sentence, like what yes, but um there are actually benefits in trials. So let's let's get into it. Let's get into it. James chapter 1, verse 2 to 4. Um, it says, My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations, knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience, but let patience have a perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Wanting nothing. All right, so um in this scripture here we can see where um James is basically encouraging us. He did not say that trials feel good at any point. He he did not say that you know the retrail is gonna feel good when it comes or the disappointment is gonna feel good when it comes, right? But he said that the trial is working something on the inside of us. So, you know, um, working is the operative word uh in this scripture right here, right? I do believe that this is where a lot of us struggle. All of us struggle in this department because I mean trials are not easy. You know, when we're in pain, we naturally focus on uh you know the pain itself. We we naturally focus on the sleep that we're losing because most times we're in pain, we can't even sleep, right? When you have a toothache, you can't eat. You worry about the food where you can't eat the burger in front of you. You just want the piece of chicken, you can't eat it because you have a toothache. So, you know, it's natural that when we are in pain, we focus on what we're missing out on, you know, what we're losing, you know, but God is a focus on what is being produced through the pain that we're going through. So while we are looking through our physical eyes, you know, and we're seeing pain and uh trials and pressure, you know, God is looking down on us and He's looking at whatever it is that we're going through as a process, right? As a process. So um there are times that we're crying um because in the moment we feel broken because of what we would have gone through or what would have transpired that would have led us to a state where we feel that broken, you know, but in that same moment, it's it's so funny because in that same moment, what oh my was I, right? So so so we are crying over uh what in the moment feels as though you know it's something that broke us, so you know, it's a state of uh brokenness, but uh the Lord is looking down on us up and he is seeing something that is being built in that state of uh brokenness, right? So what we feel and what we see through Orleans is something completely different when uh heaven is looking down on us. Trials are very uncomfortable, trials are very exhausting, you know. Um when you go through trials, it can cause you to question yourself. Let me tell you something. Well, like Christian says I say, Well, what me the partner do? Like, you know, you question yourself a lot, and it makes you question other people around you too, whether they're real or they're fake, or you know, what are their ulterior motives, even when there is none, right? So trials can cause you to start looking at people sideways. Trials can make you start question if God exists or not, right? And you know, that's that that's the rough part about it, is that it's it's not nice, you know. It is not nice because uh you'd be going through, you know, you're going through, yeah, and uh you pray, you pray, and you pray until the voice all gone in a man, you pray until you feel like uh, you know, you you transcend from out of this body and you come back to yourself. And uh, you know, when you finish the pain is still there, you know, the pain is still there, and uh you you you wonder, like you know, in the moment when I was praying, I felt like I would have been over it, but you know, I stop. I'm not praying anymore, and I feel like you know the pain is there still. You know, there's a song that says, My worship is my weapon, this is how I win my battle. You know, there are times when we can't pray, but we find ourselves in a little worship session. You know, you take a look at praise because that's our worship. And uh, when I tell you, say, you know, there are times when you're worshiping by yourself at home, and that worship session is way better than what you would have experienced when the worship team is there under the anointing, and the whole church is under, you know, under um anointing. When you're there by yourself, you feel every single thing, and you're using that weapon, and when the worship session is done with you, right? Um, and you come out of that sweet moment, and you couple minutes after that, you start crying again, and you say, What happened to my weapon? It did dull. What happened to the weapon I've been just used a while ago? What is going on? What is wrong with me? What is going on? Right? But the the truth is that there's some trials that we go through that um we're not going to feel an instant relief or an instant release of whatever it is that we were carrying after we pray. Because, like I said before, it is a process, you know. When God, when we feel us ourselves going through the pain and the suffering, um, the Lord sees it as a process, right? And a process takes time, right? Process takes time. Nobody prays for trials, nobody got dealing in me. That's well, except for me. I remember when I was that little girl. I was a little girl, and I used to hear big testimonies from people, you know, people testifying how you know what God did for them and God came through. I used to hear the, you know, how God makes provision and all of that. And I remember praying one night and I was saying, God, boy, I just feel tired of the the the little prayers, you know, the little simple prayers. I I need I need to come to you with some thankful praises because of what you would have done for me. I need some real things that will get me some big testimonies. I want to I want to understand what it feels like to be in need and have nobody to and have nobody to lead on but you. Hello? Where are you coming from, Miss? Who are you? Can I pray the name pray? Miss Hello, and I I remember prayer, so I'm gonna take back that a little bit and say nobody prays for trials, nobody in their right mind. Let me put it that way. Nobody in their right mind sits down or kneels down and prays for trials. Is it the nice right? No, none of us wake up one day and say, right, I'm ready for some difficult season now. If anything we have heard is that, Lord, I am tired of being one of your strongest soldiers. Take me off for the list, take me off of the list. Take me off the strongest soldier list because I'm tired. I have been going through the going through. I am just tired, I can't manage anymore. God, we are doing I need to be on the subgirl era. Hello, I need to start living some life. I'm tired of fighting. That is the prayers that we're praying now. People with sense, that's what we're praying now, because we don't want trials and tribulations, it is too much, right? It is too much, but you know, one thing I've grown to understand, you know, over time, you know, going through all that I would have gone through in this life, you know, I realize, and even just looking at uh, you know, others uh and hearing their stories, you realize that uh, you know, people with uh successful stories, people who would have made it in Christ and out of Christ, their journey is nothing that is simple, nothing that was easy, right? If we should sit down and assess our lives and look at all that we would have gone through, they realize that the strongest versions of ourselves were birthed in seasons that we almost did not know that we were gonna survive. We feel like we'd have got dead in them, right? And it's the truth. Some of us that was uh in those moments when it looks like uh you know nothing is going to happen. It was in those moments of when it felt like um all right, this is the end where you met God, where you understood who God really was, where you had that divine connection with God, right? It's in those moments that you discovered the strength that was really inside of you. It it's it's it's like it's like gold, right? I remember in the earlier part of uh um, I think it was season one when I was talking about uh um prayer, and it's necessary prayer was I I spoke about gold and how gold you know um comes into existence, uh right? Um, before gold come become this beautiful jewelry that everybody wants. Everybody wants a piece of gold in a dev collection because it gives you an elevated look, it does, uh and it there's this purity that comes with it. When you wear some some washover, you know, it bump you up and uh give you all sorts of rush and black black pine skin on them something here, right? Because it it's it has a lot of impurities, but when it comes to gold, there's a reason why it goes through that fire, right? Because it has to come out, so it goes through the fire to burn out uh all those impurities so that it can be refined, so it can be beaten and molded. I I need to show you the process of how gold has been made, right? In order for it to become that beautiful jewel that everybody wants a piece of, right? In order for it to be worth that much, because a piece of gold is worth a lot of money. So in order to be to get to the the worth that it now has, it has to go through fire. It not just it just arrives, right? And so we understand that you know in this life, um trials and tribulations um, you know, are must. If we're gonna get to the our full worth, if we're gonna achieve our full worth, if we're gonna get to that place in God, we have to go through the go through. And uh, I mean it it's painful, but at the end of it, we will learn that a lot of things can only be achieved when we go through trials. You know, when you're in a comfort zone, uh a lot is not uh, you know, you're comfortable, so you're not uh you're not pushed beyond your limits. You know, you're comfortable, so you're not uh pushed to think outside the box, right? And this is it's just the truth about life. Uh what trials does is it exposes uh what uh is inside of you, so you're not gonna know your true strength if you're always gonna have life easy, right? You're not gonna know your true strength until you have life a little bit rough. Because you have to go through the rough and the tough, you know, say, ah, you know, we can make it though. Yeah, those maybe kind of economical, right? Yeah. Same thing with the gym. For me, I I have lost, I have lost a little bit of weight because I was 140 something and now I'm 129. Right? So if you can see right here, look at you see my hand right there? Uh see shaking? Yeah, my hand is a jiggling right there. So I need to go to the gym right now to build my muscles so that my my arms can start shaking like that. Right? So my muscles will not just be built on their own. It must go through tension, right? It must go through some strain and some resistance in order for it to be a muscle. So I need to go to the gym, right? So, in order to be that toned body that everybody looks at and say, Oh, nice, mm mm mm, mmm, nicely toned, nice muscles. Yeah, you have to go to the gym. You can't sit down and stop eating or eat a particular way and accept that you're gonna expect that you're gonna lose the weight and gain muscle at the same time. You need to go to the gym that will put your muscles under some pressure, some serious pressure, in order to achieve a more toned arms and legs and structures of body muscles, right? So many of us in the kingdom of God, right? We we if if we want to gain a certain level um in Christ, we have to go through some form of you know pressure and resistance. We cannot gain spiritual elevation without resistance, right? We cannot do that. So we have to build our faith muscles under pressure, right? We have to build our faith muscles under pressure. Here he he was saying that the trying of our faith worketh patience, and the word worketh here means something that is actively being developed, which means your suffering is uh not idle, you know. God is using it to produce endurance, God is using it to produce wisdom, right? God is using it to produce maturity, God is using it to produce discernment, stability in Him. Because some things cannot be taught through information, you can't just read it and that's it. Some things we have to go through to go through, we have to learn it through experience, right? We have to learn it through experience, and you know what I'm thankful for is that we have examples, right? We have examples in the Bible that we can actually live from, right? When we we study the scriptures, uh we see where um you know Joseph, uh David, Job, Peter, you know, even Jesus Christ Himself, you know, they went through some amount of pressure before you know they could get to where they want to go. Joseph, uh, was uh not just a dreamer, you know, he was favored, he was a gifted, he was a chosen by God. And many people would assume that once God gives you a promise, that the journey you know becomes a little bit easier, and the promise like is right here at your fingertips. And it's something that we have been talking about since recently a lot that you know um there's so many things that the Lord would have a promise to prophecy, and it's yet to be fulfilled. Right? Um, I look at Joseph, and um it it it it brings into perspective you know what sometimes happens uh when it comes to the promises of God over our lives, right? Sometimes the promise is what introduces the process that we go through, right? God. So God showed Joseph the palace in an early stage in his life, right? But he did not show him what would have transpired before he gets to the palace. And sometimes this is what we go through in life. God would have given you a vision, right? A purpose, a calling, you know, dreams, but he doesn't always show you uh the process to get to that promise or that vision, right? Because a lot of us uh, you know, um we we if we if we see the full process ahead of time, you know, we might run away. Have you ever seen the meme that's but they changed the time?

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If we see the process before we, you know, get to the promise, we say, eh, don't thank you. Stop that, no, thank you, sir. Right? So Joseph's trial began with betrayal, right? And it wasn't from anybody that he did not know, it wasn't from strangers, it wasn't from people who wanted to kill him, like outsiders, but it was from his own brothers, it was from family. And when you look at it, um, and a lot of the violence that we encounter today, you know, um, it's it's it's because of some betrayal in the family. Oh god almighty. It's so hard that and and so heartbreaking that uh we are not at the level, or you know, I think we're regressing because we cannot get to the stage where we talk things out where they be, you know, a part of the picture, right? So with Joseph, it was the same thing, you know. It was painful that this came from his brothers, right? And uh, if you should talk to a lot of family members who will not talk to their relatives, you would hear them tell you that you know that that's one of the deepest wounds that they could ever receive, and they will never talk back, they will never get past, they will never be healed from that betrayal because it came from a family member. So his brothers were threatened by the favor that was upon his life, right? The the the dreams that he would have received, they felt threatened by it. They were threatened by what God would have placed on Joseph's life. And that um, and uh, you know, what was so what what was so so harsh about this was that he was so he was so he was such a kind person, kind-hearted and uh completely naive to everything that was happening, you know. So he was looking at them as uh his brothers, but they did not look at him as their brother. You understand what I'm saying? Right? So, so so we know the story of Joseph, he was thrown into a pit, he was sold into slavery, right? And um he was brought to part of his house where he was taught discipline and stewardship, right? And uh, you know, he basically learned how to manage before he ever ruled. And you know, we have to we can't despise the process because though sometimes it looks a little bit uh you know out of the ordinary or painful or like it don't make any sense. We don't know what God is doing in the moment, right? So we don't know what God is doing in the moment, you know. So um he went through a lot. And even when he was in part for his house, he went through um, you know, false accusation. And uh through that false accusation, you know, he was thrown into prison. So, you know, his suffering came one after the other, one after the other, right? And I'm sure that if uh one of us was in um Joseph's position, it would seem as though God was a liar because my God, all of those things that I was promised, all of those things that I dreamed of, how am I not uh, you know, how does it, why does it seem like I'm I'm I'm drifting farther and farther away from it? Because how did I end up in prison? How did I end up here? Right? How did I end up here? And you know, sometimes we think that if God promised it, then you know, well, so yeah, this gonna look like it can't, it's not gonna make no sense, you know. One on one make two fears, so like what's going on, right? So um, so we we see the whole Joseph story being played out, right? And um this lesson here is uh teaching us that uh you know some of us are praying for um a level of blessing that would be equal to you know the palace levels, you know, palace. Um, and we don't have the maturity or the discipline to handle the blessing at that level because we're still stuck at the level where um would consider what, you know, where was the first place that he started? He was running a bit, yeah. We're still stuck at that level, right? So we have to understand as a children of God that trials enlarge our capacity. Mighty God. Trials in large our capacity. So God was not only preparing Joseph for the palace, but he was preparing the palace for Joseph also. So when Joseph finally arrived at leadership, he had enough depth to survive influence without becoming corrupted by it, right? And that is one of the benefits of uh trials. When we look at David, right? David was also one of them. Um, you know, he was anointed a king. While um, I don't know if you know the story, of course. You all know the story of when um they went to anoint uh you know the the boys and them say, you know, alight all the big strong trapped in men, and none of them the oil didn't pour out, and they say, Come on, there's another, there's another one. And they say, Yeah, man, while look a shepherd went on in the background. So they went for him, and when they went for him, the oil poured out on his head. So while he was still a shepherd, you know, he was anointed king. So, you know, God chose him in front of again his brothers, right? But his manifestation was delayed. His manifestation was delayed, and uh many of us struggle in this place, right? We we know God, we know that God called us to do something, you know that God called you to do something, right? And you know that there is a purpose over your life, right? But your current reality looks nothing like the prophecy that was spoken over your life. David was anointed, right? And then he goes straight back into the theater to work. You think that you know somebody God anoints me, God anoints me as king, so I'm gonna step up and be a king right now, no, right? You know, it doesn't mean that we go directly to the throne, it doesn't mean that we get our crown at the same time, it doesn't mean that we get people applauding for us at that same time, right? We have to go through the process, right? So, so so so with that we understand that uh you know we can be anointed for a task, but not yet ready for the task, right? So David had a lot of learning to do in order to get to the throne. And um, remember when he defeated Goliath, you know, and most people think that you know that should immediately launch him into um a place where he defeated the the the the the giant and nobody could. This is now the time where you know he's going to you know be established, but instead of that, what he encountered was warfare, right? So after that, Saul became jealous of him, right? And uh, you know, we we saw where you know after he grew up, he started you know running away from and hiding in caves and you know being hunted, right? He even went to at one point disguise himself to hide among the very own enemies, you know, that because not because he was anointed as a king meant that you know he was just gonna be catapulted into that position right away. He had to go through processes. So we saw where he had you know seasons where he was in the wilderness, seasons where he was in, you know, he was hidden, seasons where he was lonely, right? And um one of the hardest trials is when you you feel forgotten while you're carrying a promise. My God, you feel forgotten, like you're wondering, you know, was was it a you know, was was it a false prophecy over my life? What you know? Um, but we have to understand that each season that we go through produces something in us, and we gotta pay attention. We have to pay attention to the seasons that we are going through. We have to pay attention to the seasons that we are going through. David learned how to seek God. David learned in every season that he went through. We can see him documenting them in the book of Psalms, right? He learned how to seek God before he was ever uh crowned, before he ever wore the crown on his head. He learned to seek God. He learned to seek God, right? So the trials taught him, the trials built him, the trials made him ready for the promise that was spoken over his life, right? Um we always talk about Job. We always go back to Job because Job is one that we can never ever um not talk about, right? We can never not talk about Job. You know, Joe, I believe that his story is just one of the one of the deepest uh trials in scripture because almost every area of his life was attacked, you know, finances, his family, his health, uh, you know, relationships, friends, you know, everything around him, everything suffered. Everything was a loss, you know. And uh, you know, the worst part about it was that he was the Bible said that he was a righteous man. He was a righteous man, right? And um, you would think that um, you know, whoa, why? You know, why? And um a lot of us would not have gone through or would not have endured without asked the Lord to take us, you know, kill me now. Kill me now, man, because why? You know, what is the point? There is no point, right? And uh, you know what I look at what what what makes Job's suffering heavier was the silence, like the silence the you know, he wasn't getting any reassurance from God in the moment there was no pe nobody around him, you know, to to to encourage him to say that you know um it's gonna get better. Because everybody tell him to say, look, yeah, how are you doing? Or might as well just curse God and die. Because that, you know, I mean, what's the point in living? You know, what's the point in living? Right? And um, I know there are people who sometimes feel that same way. You know, you're praying and uh you're not getting a response, you're not getting an answer, you know, you're not even getting uh um a yes no or maybe not you this radio silence uh you know, and uh it just seems as though, boy, like you know, why am I even doing this when we can just go, you know, get a helper down the road. Why am I even depending and I'm not hearing anything, you know? So um with the job, he went through and we saw the testimony at the end, right? We saw the testimony at the end. Um we see here in Job's story where the suffering introduced Job to God differently, you know. So he was seen as a righteous man before, right? He was seen as a righteous man at the end of it all. You know, Job says, I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine I see it thee. You know, sometimes the trials deepen our spiritual. I'm not even gonna say sometimes, all the times, you know, or trials that we go through, it deepens our spiritual intimacy in you know, in ways that uh we would never be able to achieve had our lives been comfortable and uh you know money that's aflow everywhere, and life just is nice, you know. Um, so that we when we are going through our trials, like we are brought to our knees, we're brought to our secret place, and we live there. So there's a level of intimacy that we develop. You don't get that out of comfort, you don't, you don't at all. So this is what it did to Job. It brought him, you know, it brought out the spiritual intimacy, and you know, God was able to see him differently, differently. Oh, we look at Jesus, you know, we look at Jesus himself, right? He was not exempt from suffering, he was rejected, he was uh misunderstood, betrayed, mocked, abandoned, right? By his own, I mean, people that you know he would have uh entered and uh you know did so many miracles, right? He himself got a chance to understand you know what it's like to suffer these things, right? There's a scripture that says Jesus wept, you know, he grieved, felt the agony. There's so many things that he went through just to let us know that you know trials are indeed a must, right? Trials are indeed a must, but um, we're going to go through, and when we go through, you know, we're gonna be brought to another level in him. We're gonna be brought it. Is a transformation, trials really and truly transform us. So if you were an impatient person, let me tell you something. Trials gonna polish it out like a nice configuration, and you're gonna sit down and wait because you're gonna develop patience. Believe me, that's what trials do it transforms the person that you were into something that God wants you, into something that God wants you, or someone that God wants you to wants you to be. Alright. So so this is it. Trials and tribulations, there are indeed benefits when it comes to them because what it does is that it takes you higher in God, you know. Your purpose is not identified. You start bearing kingdom fruit, you start, you know, you start. There's so many benefits this as well, because I myself I have gone through and still is uh you know going through, right? I remember there was a time in my life, in my 20s, you know, getting married and migrating to Canada and starting businesses, you know, businesses that are being established and going well. You know, I remember one of the things that um drove a restaurant to to that much success was the fact that they saw a young Christian couple, you know, who was doing their thing, and uh, you know, husband and wife, hey, can husband and wife we're together? No, but this one, this husband and wife, they're doing it, and they look happy doing it. And uh, yeah, so so people are always drawn to the fact that you know we're newcomers to Canada and uh we seem to be working well as relatives. My sister, of course, was is also involved in it. So when they see all three of us coming together and doing this, they're like, Whoa this is commendable. We don't see this happening very often, and you know, life was going good, we're doing our thing, business operating to the point where you know, you know, they were encouraging to get another location because you guys are doing so well, and it so happened that the Lord would have blessed us with another location, and this location was a location that we bought. So the only way we can give this up is is when we decide that we're gonna be done with the restaurant business and we just sell it out, but nobody can put us out because we now own it, right? You know, so um, so we saw where God was just doing things, making ways, um, allowing things to happen. Everything is going well. This cleaning business going well, restaurant business going well, family. By this time, I would have had my daughter, and we're raising a nice little family, right? And then out of the blues, you know, something disrupted, you know, this nice little balance, and uh I would have things would have had shifted in a direction where I am no longer, you know, in that space. I have to be operating the businesses remotely, and um, and that's something that uh you know nobody was prepared for. You ever you ever go a house and and um somebody dead? That that's how that's how life felt for a moment, like uh, you know, somebody died. I believe that we were all grieving at one point, or we're just grieving. A lot of times we talk about grieving and we think it's when somebody dies, and listen, like we were grieving for a long time, and I remember, I remember, you know, it was in one of those uh states where I realized that boy, like it was just another one hit me, and I'm like, boy, I can't manage no more, man. This is too much. Like, what is even the point of making it further past here? Like this, like I'm gonna see, I don't see how I'm gonna make it out of this one. Like, I am so deep into this mess that I don't even know how I'm going to get out. Right? And I remember when you know I started writing, I started writing, and uh, you know, the Lord would have directed me to to channel my energy into encouragement. I started by encouraging people through WhatsApp. You know, I started um because uh not out of my own free will, not gonna get up one day and say, Oh, I'm gonna encourage nope, I did not get up one day and I'm gonna encourage people. The Lord would have sent people to me who are going through their go through, were going through their trials and their tests, send them to me, and I in turn, who is going through my rough and tough, have to encourage them without even letting them know what I am going through. My dear mercy wrote my life, and I tell you, the Lord really did set me up. He did, he set me up real good, and uh, you know, um, it would have transitioned from me encouraging them through WhatsApp to, you know, remember I took up my computer one day and I started just writing. Um, I just started writing based on you know how I would feel. And then uh, you know, I I the Lord Lord redirected my steps and uh you know brought me into the direction where I wrote uh the Wake Up Warrior book. And I it so happened that uh, you know, while I was writing it, I didn't even know what I was writing. I just know I was putting something together that would have been able to encourage somebody to get out of the state that they were in. And I remember one day I got a call from my pastor. My pastor, the one that baptized me as a child, as Pastor Archibald, and he called me and he was speaking in tongues, and uh, you know, immediately I started connecting, you know, with him. And I remember he he just said, after speaking, he just said these these words, and that was it. He said, uh, woman of God, you are a warrior, you know how to fight. Fight, get up and fight. I don't think he even knows that he called me and said that. Believe me, because I remember I was saying it to him once and he was lost, like, what? Yes, he doesn't even remember, right? Because I'm sure you know he would have been, he would have had other assignments that God would have put him on. But I Remember him saying, Woman of God, get up and fight. You know how to fight. You know how to fight. You gotta get up and fight this one. He didn't even stop to find out like what was going on in my life. The man does come and deliver the message and gobble to visit. Wake up. When he said that, that was my cue. And I um, you know, I went, I took up my computer and I and I wrote in Vega, wake up warrior, wake up, warrior. And that's all I wrote for that day. And then I was just meditating on you know where God was leading me in that moment, you know, and that was what that was six years ago. And uh, fast forward to today, the Lord would have birthed one, two, three books out of me and counting because every time uh he leads me into a direction where I'm writing, like while I'm writing one, like he's bringing I don't even know. He's just like there's so much that he is revealing to me that I need to write in another book. So while I'm writing one, like he's giving me other he's giving me other books that I need to write, like daddy, father, slow down, slow down, slow down, and I am now in the process. I did um when I released my second book, um, I did a 30 days uh prayer journal, and uh people who would have bought that prayer journal was like, uh-uh, that is too little. You cannot be rolling out a journal and roll out a 30 days journal. That is too little. Number one, that there's no there's nowhere for me to write. I would have received that from about seven or eight people, like, no, sister Janelle, you gotta do better with the the journals. And I remember asking God, like, you know, how should I approach this journal business? And he said, do a 365-days journal. And I started that um in what November of last year, and I released the 90 days, the first 90 days journal for what January to March, and then I released um the second 90 days one recently, that's until June. And then I am in the process of doing the third quarter of um the 365 days because uh the format that I would have received it, like when I started writing it, I was like, God, this I can't do this into a 365 days because believe it or not, the first 90 days, I don't have a copy because they're all sold out right now. But the first one is so thick, and for those of anybody who are listening to me and have one that can take a picture and show it, it's so it's like 490-something pages, 400 and something pages are thick. And I remember when I finished that, I was like, When I was editing it on Canva, I was like, God, this domain of sense. I can't this, I can't do four quarters of this thick journal. And the Lord said, Listen to me, miss, listen to me. All four quarters are gonna be done in four different formats. Just watch me, just listen to me, and you will never go wrong. Let me tell you something. The Lord blows my mind every single time, every single time, and I am extremely grateful. I'm extremely grateful that the trials that I would have gone through, the testing, the tribulations that I would have gone through would have matured me, would have brought me to the level where I um I used to be very impatient when it comes to a lot of things, especially in the waiting. Like I don't have no time to wait. And you know, I realize that you know now I am just trusting God in the season, whatever the Lord says, whatever it is, whatever the Lord says, I am willing to move with that, right? And this is why today I you know I can say that the the trial, trials are painful indeed, you know, but I can say that trials are also productive, you know. Trials are also productive. I I I can never I don't think don't think anyone of us can ever get to the stage in life where we can glorify pain, right? We we we we I don't think we'll ever get to the stage where we would never we will pretend that the process is easy because who does that, right? But we can say that out of this, you know, my purpose was given birth. Out of this, I was able, you know, to be a stronger individual. Out of this, I was able to be somebody who is more kingdom conscious, somebody who now um has a purpose, a divine purpose on their lives that come with me, I am going to make it. Right? I am going to make it. Um I'm saying all of this to say that people of the living God, nothing is wasted. Your trial is not wasted, the betrayal that you go through is not wasted, disappointment that you face is not wasted. The the wilderness season that you go through is not wasted. You know, the tears that you have shed, they're not wasted, you know. Um, when all of that is a place in the hands of the almighty God every single season, right? Every single season is a productive in God's hands. Joseph's pit produced leadership, David's wilderness and uh cave seasons produced you know a level of intimacy with the Lord, uh, Peter, when you know, in his failure, you know, it produced humility, you know, it produced humility, you know, when it comes to God. Job in his suffering, it produced a kind of revelation that all of us live on today. And even in my very own life, you know, we see that you know the the disruption eventually became um redirection, eventually became redirection, right? So some of the things, some of the things that God birthed in me could have only been produced through the process, you know, the books, the the voice, the depth, you know, the burden of for for kingdom work and kingdom assignment, you know, this level of intimacy with God. I did not understand it while I was in you know the my grieving season, right? But now looking back, I can see that uh heaven was still working even when life felt a little bit uncertain, and uh you know, maybe that is where some of you are right now, you're in a season that does not really make any sense at all. Oh, you know, you're in a season where you're questioning God, you know, you're questioning the timing, you're questioning your purpose, and uh, you know, you're questioning why certain things had to happen the way they did. But I want to encourage you today, do not judge your entire story from you know one chapter. Don't judge your entire story from one chapter because it's only a chapter, you know. God is still writing. The trial may be painful now, but it is not at all pointless. Something is being developed in you, something is being built in you, wisdom is being formed, right? Earlier I said that you know, discernment sometimes or most times comes from the pain that we go through in this life, or faith is developed even stronger, you know. And I believe that one day you're going to look back at the very season that almost broke you, and you're going to realize that you know it was in fact the season that introduced you to another dimension of purpose in the kingdom of God. So if you're currently in a trial, do not lose heart. I know that this is something that you've you'll probably hear from everybody any uh every time somebody wants to give you encouragement, do not lose heart. You know, cry if you need to cry, you know, ball if you want ball. Like, let me tell you something. One of the best reliefs is when you ball, like just holla, just cry, right? And sleep if you must. You know, what in there was a point in my life where um I remember I was so frustrated because it looked like there's nothing now work out, you know, like I'm doing so much and nothing is working out. I remember one day I heard the voice of God say, Go sleep. But I'm not even tired. I'm not even tired though, you know. And like I was just there back and forth, you know, just trying to, you know, to like you know, frustrate my own self with the with the the problem I was uh I was trying to fix on the computer. And all of a sudden I got I got tired. So I look like God just said, Look at I look a girl that thinks she be. I remember I got so tired. I'm just gonna lay down and sleep. And when I laid down to sleep, the Lord would have visited me in a dream, a vision, because it was daytime, and he showed me exactly what to do when I woke up. He directed me to the computer, and the same thing I had a problem with, the same thing I had an issue with like the Lord was just directing me, go here, go there, go here, go there, go here, go there until the process was let me tell you something, let me tell you something. Rest if you need to rest, hello, sleep if you must, and that is something that I started doing. Like, uh, I it doesn't if I'm doing something right now and it starts to frustrate me, I go sleep. And best believe when I wake up, I'm gonna wake up with a new vision, new enthusiasm. Because whatever I was struggling with before, it's gonna get done. Hello, listen to me, man. I am so like I'm so intrigued by by how God, you know, how God how God develop develops us in him because that is one way in which I hear his voice through dreams and visions. I go sleep and I wake up with a vision because I tell you that listen, if God don't talk to me through a scripture or audibly, it might be gonna sleep because he might have something show me. Hello, somebody, man. So the trials that we go through, it develops that in us. So, like I said, the rest of your must because you don't know what God is wants to do in your moment of resting, right? You don't know what God is doing in your moment of resting, right? But whatever it is, don't give up, just don't give up, don't give up because uh God still knows how to bring out your purpose in your season of pain, God knows exactly what he's doing, and when he is finished with you, praise God, and know that you're gonna emerge better, you're gonna emerge better, not better enough, but better, you're gonna emerge deeper, deeper in him, deeper in him. Thank you so much for listening to this episode on today. If this episode has blessed you, if you have been encouraged by this, or you know, uh this spoke to you in any way, shape, or form. Feel free to share it with someone who may need to hear it. And I would love also love to hear from you in the comment section what is one trial that changed you for the better. God bless you, stay encouraged, and I will see you in the next episode. God bless you.