Glory Triggers Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts: How Confronting Painful Experiences Can Lead to Healing and Birthing Your Purpose
Being “triggered” can take us back to painful moments from the past, but triggers also can bring us back to glory! When you courageously confront your triggers, you gain revelation for what took place back then, and at the same time, you activate the person God is calling you to be right now. When you avoid your triggers, you avoid the healing that’s connected to that moment. Not every trigger is meant to destroy you; some are meant to deliver you. As you navigate this current version of yourself, get ready to be triggered – Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Triggers are often defined as negative events or situations that cause emotional distress or discomfort. They can range from a specific smell, sound, or sight to a particular memory or experience. Triggers can be overwhelming and cause us to feel stuck or powerless, but what if we shift our perspective and view them as opportunities for growth, healing and birthing your purpose?
The pain & Discomfort of your triggers may lead to the birth of your purpose through the journey of healing and growth
Your triggers may have been the labour pains, but through the process of healing and growth, you can birth the purpose within you.
Just like Hagar, who gave birth to Ishmael whilst enduring years of mistreatment, we can also birth something beautiful from the pain we’ve experienced. Though the process of healing and growth may be difficult, it is through these struggles that we gain the strength, resilience, and insight needed to fulfill our purpose in life. By confronting our triggers, we can release the limitations that have held us back and step into the fullness of our potential.
Healing My Triggers
In 2017, I was sexually assaulted in Perth, despite God revealing to me a few years prior that I was meant to move there. This triggered conflicting emotions within me, I asked God “Why would you tell me to return to the same place I experienced great pain?”.
My therapist was also conflicted about the idea however reminded me that triggers are an opportunity for healing. By confronting my triggers on my healing journey, I founded Sisters Healing Space and I worked with my therapist on my journey to move to Perth. Eventually, I made the big move to Perth and gained insight into my purpose, activating my anointing.
Confronting Our Triggers
can lead to healing, deliverance, and even birth your purpose and activate you anointing. But this can only happen after we have experienced healing or an encounter with God. Attempting to return to the same place of pain without any healing or encounter with God can lead to more hurt and wounds.
Healing Is A Process
that cannot be rushed and it’s not linear. It takes time, effort, and often requires confronting difficult emotions and experiences. Rushing our healing journey can ultimately do more harm than good.
Sometimes, we may be tempted to return to the same place of pain without any healing or an encounter with God. However, this can lead to more hurt and wounds. It’s important to seek healing and growth because we need to be empowered ourselves before we can empower others.
It’s also important to recognise that sometimes, we aren’t meant to return to the same place of pain because our triggers were meant to deliver and heal us. You can still use the pain you experienced to empower others without returning to the situation. Sometimes sharing your deliverance will inspire other people in a similar situation.
In conclusion, not every trigger is meant to destroy us. Some can lead to healing, deliver us, and even birth our purpose. But, we can only experience a glory trigger after we have experienced healing or an encounter with God. Let us trust in God’s timing and guidance and allow ourselves to heal fully and completely before moving forward. Don’t rush your healing journey, for it is through the process that we can truly experience the glory and purpose that God has in store for us.
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Author: Nicholah Wasarirevu CEO/Founder of Sisters Healing Space
Nicholah is a highly experienced Black African Social Worker, Therapist, and Mental Health Clinician who is also currently pursuing a PhD. Her research is focused on decolonising mental health practices and examining the impact of racial trauma. With more than five years of experience in the human services and mental health sector, Nicholah recognised the lack of culturally safe and affirming healing and wellness spaces for First Nations, Black and Women of Colour. In response, she founded Sisters Healing Space in 2020. Sisters Healing Space is a nationwide therapist and wellness directory and mental well service platform dedicated to promoting healing and wellness for Sisters’ of all ages. Its mission is to provide access to culturally safe and affirming services, destigmatise mental health within the community and promote generational healing.