Learning To Breathe Through The Pain

In this episode of Breaking Soul Ties Ministries, speaks to those carrying the heaviness of grief, divorce, heartbreak, and/or emotional pain.

This message is about learning to recognize the small moments where God allows you to breathe again: moment by moment, step by step, through the pain.

A reminder that even through the suffering, God is still carrying you through.

Minister Kim Bradford speaks of Mordecai not in a literal since in her episode of: It’s Not Bitterness, It’s Pain But to inform others that we reap what we sow. The Bible states: Look! The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good on the king’s behalf, is standing at the house of Haman.”

Then the king said, “Hang him on it!”

10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided.

Joseph’s brother’s through him in the pit and needed his help to get them out of a famine land

The list can go on in the Bible 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Hi everyone, this is Minister Kim Bradford. I want to speak to you and the woman who is going through rough times, whether it is divorce, whether it is someone leaving you, you've been in a relationship with someone for a long period of time and they walked out of your life, or whether it's just you going through pain of with your children, pain of losing someone and walking it out, the difficulties of walking it out. What I've learned that those things are very challenging, and I just knew in those moments that if I could just breathe, now I'm not talking about the yoga breathe in and exhale and inhale. I'm talking about the moment that you get that you feel yourself and breathing and not feeling the tense emotions that come with dealing with the pain that you're walking today, that this pain that you're walking this season, I learn to recognize the moments that I was able to just take a breath and feel relaxed. Not every time when you're going through pain that you can breathe. So I found myself in captivating and kind of like catching those moments because it was real, it was honest, that I was not feeling as if I could breathe. I felt like I was so tight, you know, my chest was tight, and I felt like I could not figuratively live through dealing with the pain in that season. And I knew I would have moments of saying, God is getting me through this. God is getting me through this. A moment of breath. Sometimes that moment of breath is instant, it's quick. But I had it and I cherished it. And that's what you're gonna have to do to walk in this season of pain that you feel like figuratively you cannot live through this, or literally, you cannot live through this season of pain. If I can get you to recognize the moments that you may smile, the moments that someone makes you laugh, it is saying that there will be a day that you will learn how to breathe. And again, I'm not talking the yoga, breathe in and exhale. I'm talking the moment when that pain is so burdened on your chest, and it feels like your heart has caved in, and your blood pressure rises, and you don't know whether you can live through this.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

So that's not an inhale, exhale yoga moment. That's not something that I promote, but it is a moment that you find yourself in being able to have a breath of saying, God is carrying me through.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

And you're gonna have not hiccups, but you're gonna have like mountains of pain because it's a burden. I cannot lie to you and tell you that it's gonna be smooth, it's gonna be easy, it's gonna be bumpy.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

No, it is gonna be heaps. But I know when you're meditating on the word, you'll find moments of taking a breath.

SPEAKER_00 5:37

When you're talking to someone and they're able to kind of get you to laugh, you'll find moments of taking a breath. It's gonna be tight, it's gonna be hard. See, I'm not here to tell you today that it's gonna be easy. I know I should tell you that, right? Because that's what we want to hear. I know that's what I wanted to hear. I know I wanted to hear God tell me that he could erase it. Deliver me. I didn't want to feel as if I was in this Job moment. I didn't want to feel the humiliation of what people would think of me walking through this season of my life. But I can tell you, it is what people will think, it is the burden that you're carrying.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

And if I could lift that off of you, in the name of Jesus, hallelujah, you will see how God can maneuver through and allow you to breathe.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

So today, I want you to recognize not so much the pain that you are bearing, but I want you to recognize the moments that you can take a breath through the pain that you're bearing. So I leave you with let God be God over your life, and to remember that God is working it out, that God is working through you, and it's hard to believe that God is working in this. Because you're going through humiliation, you're going through pain, you're going through a grieving moment. This is just not for people who are going through divorce. This is people who are going through pain. Whether it is through divorce, whether it's pain of someone being hurt, pain of someone going through their own trials that you may love, and it's hard for you to be able to deal with that, to see them walk through that pain.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

This is that kind of pain.

SPEAKER_00 9:16

I need you to see that when you are able to have a moment to just breathe, when you are able to have those instants. I pray that you get that. I pray that you notice that because that's what's going to get you through. It's not so much you looking at the pain, but it's you looking at the moments that you're able to laugh, the moments that you're able to breathe, the moments that you see Christ showing you that he is there, showing you that he is there through the joy of others.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

That's how you get through. I wish I had more to give you.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

I wish I had more to say for you to get past that, but that is how it is a step by step, moment by moment minute by minute, second by second and recognizing that you were able to breathe through the heartache, the pain, the suffering, seeing someone going through pain that you love, just breathe. Just remember those moments. In Jesus' name, I pray this over your life. Amen.