Nothing is Wasted 🦋🤍

Some seasons in life feel confusing.

Doors close.
Paths shift.
Plans change.

But what if those moments weren’t setbacks?

What if God was positioning you for the promise?

In this episode of the Beautiful Me Empowerment Ministry Podcast, we explore how the seasons of redirection and waiting are often God’s way of preparing us for something greater.

✨ Nothing you’ve been through is wasted.


#BeautifulMe #TrustTheAuthor #FaithJourney #Purpose

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Transcript

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Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome to the Beautiful Me Empowerment Ministry Podcast, where faith meets hope, hope meets healing, and we grow together. Of course, I'm your host, Monique Anderson. It is such an amazing opportunity once again to serve. I am truly grateful for you, and I'm grateful for what God is doing in your life. I may not hear about it, but I am believing God with you and for you that He is doing something marvelous in your lives. Hallelujah. Heavenly Father, we come before you this morning, oh God, with grateful hearts. We're truly grateful to you because of who you are. We're grateful, Abba Father, that you have chosen us this morning to be on the wake up list. There are so many persons who would have passed, uh God, but we want to thank you this morning that we are up and we are alive and we are well. Maybe some persons listening might be experiencing uh challenges. Nonetheless, God, we are grateful to you. We thank you because you are the God who finishes what you started. You are not only the author of our story, but you are also the one who brings every promise to fulfillment. If you say it, Lord, we believe it. That is how it goes. Hallelujah. And so, God, even in this moment, we invite the sweet, sweet Holy Spirit in this space. Holy Spirit, thou art welcome in this place and in this space. Come and dwell in this place and in this space and have your way in our lives this morning. Run things, Daddy God, like only you know how to. We invite you in our places of brokenness, in our places, oh God, of deep distress, in our struggles. We invite you, oh God, in every place, every area of our lives, and we ask you, Heavenly Father, that you will help us to lay down every burden, every weight that we are carrying, Abba Father, even as your word said that we should exchange our yoke for your yoke is easy and your burden is light. So, God, today is another surrender where we come in your presence and we're surrendering every hurt, every pain, every heartache, every heartbreak, every emotional uh challenges and mental challenges that we are experiencing, every physical challenges, financial challenges. We're laying it all down at your feet, Abba Father, and we are choosing today to trust in you, Lord, with all our hearts. We're choosing today, God, to walk by faith and not by sight. We're choosing today, God, to believe you. The song says, Whose report will you believe today, God? We will, we shall believe the reports of the Almighty God. So, Father, come on in and be Lord of our lives, mighty God. We invite you, not that you need an invitation, but that's just who you are. You don't force yourself on us. So we invite you, God, in every single area of our lives, in our jobs, in our health, in our finances, in our families. Oh God, we invite you in to take full control, Abba Father. Again, I say run things like only you know how to. God, you know every single person by name and age and by number. You know the issues of our hearts, mighty God. You know the things that keeps us up at night, you know the things, oh God, that even keep us in a space of wandering. Sometimes we are present, but we're not so present because our mind is so far away, our minds are troubled, Abba Father. So you know all of these things. The word of God says you even know the number of hair that is on our head, Abba Father. And in the same breath, God, the scripture says that we should not be anxious about anything, but in everything, in prayer and supplication and thanksgiving to make our request known unto you. You talk about the lilies that you take care of them, they don't toil, they don't have to go and find your own food, and you provide for them. And Solomon says, Will you not do the same for us? So, Father, this morning, enter into these spaces, Abba Father, and just take control, Abba Father. Whatever season it is that we are in, Abba Father, we are thanking you for those seasons. The seasons, oh God, of movement, the seasons of waiting, and the seasons, mighty God, that feels so confusing. And we thank you for them. And we are trusting you this morning, Abba Father, that you will supply all our needs: emotional, mental, physical, financial, relational, all our needs, Abba Father, according to your riches in glory this morning. And we declare in the atmosphere in the name of Jesus that we lack nothing. Because you said, nothing good will you withhold from us, mighty God. You said all the cattle on a thousand hills belong to you. So provision is already made for us in all seasons, and so we thank you. We thank you this morning, God, that nothing is wasted in our lives or in your hands because all things work together for good for those who love God and we love you and are called according to your purpose, and we believe, God, that you have called us, even as Esther, for a time such as this. And so, once again, God, today we surrender our fears, our doubts, and even our disappointments to you. Help us, Holy Spirit, to trust every step of our journey that you are positioning us for the promise you prepared in Jesus' name, amen and amen and amen. Hallelujah. I want you to put an amen under the this podcast upload because we're two or more gathered, amen, and we agree, God moves and he's in the midst of it all. Hallelujah. Today we're going to wrap up a little three-part series that we've been talking about the repositioning, you know, when we're in that space between what God did and what he's about to do in that space of repositioning, that place of rest where God pours back into us, and he is working behind the scenes, even though sometimes it seems as if nothing is happening. So, today we're gonna talk about the fact that we are positioned for the promise, and God is indeed preparing us for what is next. Sometimes the truth is, I've done it, I don't know about you, just looking back over our life. You know, you look back at your life and you realize that the things that once felt like setbacks, they were actually set up moments because God is never wasting our story. Some doors that closed they protected us, the redirection, it aligned us, and sometimes we only understand God's strategy after we walk through the season. And I always say that there's a reason behind all of God's madness because sometimes when he does what he does, when he does what he does, we're like, God, what are you doing? And it's almost like in those moments we cannot see how anything good is going to come out of this. It's like in the Bible. Can anything good come out of Israel? Can anything good come out of Zion? Can anything good come out of our situation? Can anything good come out of the disappointment? Can anything good come out of the heartbreak? Can anything good come out of the hurt and the pain? My God, can anything good come out of the disaster? But God does not waste the pain, and beautiful me ministry is evidence that something good can come out of Zion, something good cannot come out of Israel because God doesn't waste our pain, He transforms it. Beautiful me ministry, it was basically that moment when I hit rock bottom. I mean I know if there's any below rock bottom, but I hit rock bottom, I almost lost my job. I was bleeding on the inside and even on the outside because bleeding on the inside, nobody saw that. I saw it, and I, you know, we wear our mask every day, and at the end of the day, I was also bleeding on other persons, including my son. I was telling a student yesterday that you know my my past was so trauma-ridden that I I I hadn't dealt with so many things in my past, and it was affecting my relationship with my son. I was bleeding on him. I referred to the popular saying where they say hurt people, hurt people. Yeah, I was hurting my son, I was even hurting my mother, I was hurting those persons in my environment because I was living up in survival mode, and I was constantly in fight and flight mode and fight mode, yeah, and then I had to go into therapy, and a transformation started taking place, and it was not just therapy alone, but it was therapy um and prayer and fasting that got me out of it, and what was meant as a healing journey for me, God transformed it into a ministry, and I said to a friend of mine yesterday, I said, if this ministry transforms only one, then my work here and all the pain that I've endured, it would not have been wasted, it would have been worth it all. Hallelujah! And we see one of the most powerful examples. I mentioned it or her earlier, Esther in the prayer about divine positioning, is is Esther's story. Esther was an orphan, she was raised by her cousin Mordecai, she was living a quiet life when suddenly everything changed. She was taken to the palace, she went through a long season of preparation, and eventually she became queen. But Esther didn't know why God had positioned her there until the moment came when her people were in danger, and that's when Mordecai spoke in Esther 4, verse 14, and we say it so often, and who knows, my God, but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this. Everything Esther experienced before that moment was positioning. Everything that you are experiencing, the uncertainty, the waiting, the preparation, God is aligning you for the promise. He is positioning you just as he did, Esther. Many times when we are walking through difficult seasons, we assume that something is going wrong. But what if I tell you this morning that something is actually going right? What if God is positioning you for something you cannot yet see? What if the redirection you experienced was the exact step needed to place you where the promise could unfold? Listen, God is very strategic, you know. He moves pieces we don't even know exist. Hallelujah. And you know, as a counselor, I always go in the psychological bit of it. So psychologically, there is always growth before elevation. We grow the most in seasons of challenge and transition, and these seasons they help to develop our emotional resilience. And we we went through a whole couple of days where we spoke about releasing control, and we talk about um emotional resilience, and you know, just reprogramming our brain and getting rid of the stinking thinking because it is some of those very things they cannot go where God is taking us, right? And so He has to we have to pause, He has to reposition us, yeah. And these seasons again they help to develop emotional resilience, they deepen our faith, right? We grow in wisdom and maturity, and then there is clarity of purpose without these transitions, the blessing can become overwhelming. So God prepares the person before He releases the promise because purpose requires capacity, and I was listening to a podcast yesterday, or maybe it wasn't a podcast, it was a short clip. I was listening yesterday, and it was talking about even a kingdom partner. That partner has to have capacity for what you carry because as a man of purpose and as a woman of purpose, you who has that God has like God, there's a calling on your life, and it simply means that whomever your kingdom partner is going to be, that person has to have capacity for your purpose to accommodate your purpose because your purpose is weighty, and they have to have the capacity to handle and to help carry the weight because it is going to affect them, and so we have to be so so so um careful, and we have to pray and discern. And the truth is when that person comes for those persons who are in the waiting for their kingdom partner, when that person comes, you will know, you will know, so even as you're in your waiting season for your kingdom partner, relax yourself. God is building his her capacity to handle the weight of your purpose, he's aligning that person because alignment is important, and when that person comes again, you will know. And so, therefore, God has to prepare you, he has to prepare the person before he releases the promise because purpose requires capacity. So, this morning, if you're listening and you feel like your life has been a mixture of redirections and waiting seasons and unexpected changes, I want you to hear this this morning. God has been repositioning you, nothing you went through was random, nothing was wasted, and your story is still unfolding. Hallelujah. God is positioning you for his promise. Nothing, again, that you've experienced was wasted. We just need to trust God's timing, divine timing. The Bible talks about times and seasons, and you will be ready for the next chapter. You will be ready, I guarantee you. So just remember that your life is not random, all right? The series of events that happen in your life are not random. It is a story that is being written by the divine author, God Himself, and sometimes the chapters that feel confusing are the ones that lead to the most powerful moments of purpose, just like Esther. So you may not understand today why certain things happened, but one day you will look back and realize that God was positioning you for such a time as this. Hallelujah, Father. We thank you for the journey this morning, we thank you for the seasons that stretch us, thank you for the moments that strengthen our faith, and thank you for the promises that are still unfolding. Help us, Daddy, to walk forward with confidence, knowing that you are guiding every single step of the way. Hallelujah. In Jesus' name, amen. Thank you this morning for tuning in. And just remember that healing happens in layers. Your story is still being written, and all we need to do is trust the author. This is Monique Anderson, and you've been listening to the Beautiful Me Empowerment Ministry podcast. God bless you and have an amazing day in the Lord.