How do you deal with abuse?

After hearing how Joyce Meyer was abused by her father, it’s natural to want to know how she handled it. How does one deal with abuse? So, I got these tips from Joyce Meyer herself and I hope it helps.

Abuse means misused, used improperly, used up, wasted, to use in such a way as to cause harm or damage or to be treated cruelly. It could be sexual, abuse, emotional, physical, verbal or mental abuse and all are damaging. Any time we are misused or used for any purpose other than which God intended us is damaging.

Joyce’s story serves as an inspiration to many who may have been hurt and abused in the past. Though she had prayed to God severally to get her out of her predicament, God didn’t but rather gave her strength to go through it.

Joyce said she was grateful for what she passed through because it made her a better person than she would ever have been if she had not gone through it. It’s simply to say that if you had gone through abuse in the past or you are going through it now, God is able to turn that ugly situation around and use it for your good.

Abuse is something the victims are ashamed of talking about but rather than keep it hidden start by talking to God about it openly and honestly. Then talk to yourself openly and honestly. You have to get it out to get it over with. Don’t keep it hidden.

The reason why Satan wants you to keep it hidden is because as long as it is hidden , you can never get free from it, at least not completely. It could be something you have done or something done to you that you are ashamed of. Anyone being abused can fully recover. Joyce is the proof. God healed her sexually and emotionally because naturally someone who went through her kind of traumatic childhood never grows up a normal person. Only God can do this.

In abuse, be determined to survive. Don't give up. Don't give in. Look up to God.

There are more capabilities in us than we can ever begin to imagine but Satan tries to demean us, diminish us, belittle us through people mistreating us. Even though you may have been abused or abandoned, right in the midst of it God has a plan!

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