The Narrow Way

You’re still in process.
Still crying some nights.
Still aching in places nobody sees.
And yet
you’re still preaching.
Still pouring.
Still laying hands and lifting others
even while you limp.

This is the unseen cost of ministry:
bleeding behind the curtain
but still carrying oil.

And here’s what the enemy wants you to believe:
That until you’re fully healed,
you’re not usable.
Not anointed.
Not ready.

But that’s a lie.

Because if healing was a prerequisite for obedience,
none of the disciples would’ve been sent.

Jesus didn’t wait until Peter stopped being impulsive.
He didn’t wait until Thomas stopped doubting.
He didn’t wait until Mary stopped weeping.
He called them, in process.

He’s calling you too.

Because your healing isn’t a distraction from the ministry.
It is the ministry.

When you show up vulnerable,
when you minister through your ache,
when you lift others while your heart is still learning to beat steady again—
you look like Jesus.

The Lamb who bore wounds
and still washed feet.
The Savior who was pierced
and still said, “Today, you’ll be with Me in paradise.”

2 Corinthians 4:7 says,
“But we have this treasure in jars of clay
to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.”

You’re the clay jar.
Cracked.
Fragile.
But filled.

So let Him shine through the cracks.
Let the oil seep out through the places that once bled.
Let your healing journey
become someone else’s confirmation that God still moves.

You don’t have to wait to be finished to be faithful.
You just have to say,
“Yes, even here.”

And when you do
Heaven responds.
Power pours.
And healing multiplies.