By Mathias Echioda
PRINCIPLES OF ENGAGEMENT IN SPIRITUAL WARFARE
March 26th, 2026
WHEN YOUR PAIN BECOMES THE PULPIT
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness…
2 Cor. 12:9*l
Devotional
Paul had a “thorn” – a persistent affliction that he earnestly prayed to be removed. But rather than granting deliverance, God gave grace. That moment of pain became Paul’s pulpit, where he declared God’s sufficiency, not in the absence of weakness, but in its very presence.
Sometimes God doesn’t remove the pain because He plans to use it to speak through you. The places you bleed can become places He blesses. What breaks you may build others when surrendered to God.
The Christian journey isn’t always about escape but endurance by faith. The cross wasn’t a place of comfort, it was a pulpit where Jesus preached His most powerful sermon in silence. In the same way, believers often become conduits of divine strength through visible human fragility. The gospel is not hindered by weakness; it is magnified in it.
Instead of despising your pain, ask God to give it purpose. Write, speak, or serve from it. Your scars can be someone else’s survival manual. Let God’s grace shine through your cracks. Pain becomes sacred when it is placed in God’s hands.
Prayer
Lord, I give You my weakness, wounds, and weariness. Preach through my pain. Use my trials to testify of Your grace. Let nothing in my life be wasted, not even my suffering. In Jesus’ name, I pray!
