When Faith and Pain Coexist..

Hey homegirls, welcome to another episode of the Girl Just Hell podcast. It's your favorite homegirl, Nimoya Bazedon, and the episode you are about to listen to, it is a replay episode. Now, let me just tell you, y'all already know we are gearing up to start our faith series. And I hope that y'all have been really marinating on the scripture that I said a couple episodes ago, baby, if you don't know, I'm going to need you to go back and I'm going to need you to listen and meditate on that scripture. And I hope that you are just gearing up and ready for this faith series. So this episode, we are talking in particular about when faith and pain coexist. And this episode right here couldn't have come at a better time, honestly, because a lot of homegirls have reached out and they've been dealing with the confusion. It's been a little confusion of can I still have faith, but still feel the pain that I am feeling? Does that cancel out? Does that pain that I'm feeling cancel out me having faith and vice versa? And baby, I'm here to tell you, no, it does not. And this episode really, really breaks that down. So y'all already know I need y'all to grab your journals. I need y'all to get comfy because we are about to talk about this. And I really want you to take notes. I get you something to write with, get you something to take notes with, because I really want you to just understand that faith doesn't cancel out the pain and your pain doesn't cancel out your faith. So without further ado, we're going to go ahead and get into the episode. Y'all already know. Go to girljustheal.com. Make sure you're getting your prayer cards and your other homegirl merch. And then go to girljusthealconference.com so that you can stay up to date with all the details of the next conference that we are having. So I love y'all so much. And without further ado, baby, we are about to get into the episode. So I hope y'all enjoy. Sit back, relax, and let's talk about it. Hey, homegirl. Welcome to the Girl Just Heal podcast. where together we learn how to navigate our healing journeys in a way that challenges us to destroy limits and break down walls that have been keeping us subject to our trauma. I am your host, your favorite homegirl, Nimoya Bazin. And just like you, I am on this healing journey, navigating the ups and downs of this thing called life while simultaneously allowing God to usher me right into the place where he wants me to be. So get comfy, grab your journal, and let's talk about all the ways we can heal, grow, and evolve together. Hey homegirl, welcome to the Girl Just Healed podcast, where together we learn how to navigate our healing journeys in a way that challenges us to destroy limits and break down walls that have been keeping us subject to our trauma. I am your host, your favorite homegirl, Nimoya Bazin. And just like you, I am on this healing journey, navigating the ups and downs of this thing called life while simultaneously allowing God to usher me right into the place where he wants me to be. So get comfy, grab your journal, and let's talk about all the ways we can heal, grow, and evolve together. Hey, homegirls. Welcome to the Girl Just Healed podcast. I'm your favorite homegirl, Nimoya Baysden. And Chad, listen. So how are you doing? I pray that you are doing well. Pray that you are healing well, feeling well, all of those good things. So let's go ahead and slide into the episode. We're going to start with some homegirl updates. So the first homegirl update is make sure you continue to go to girljusthealed.com. Okay. Get your prayer cards, get your homegirl merch all of the goodies that we got on the website but now we're going to shout out a homegirl and this homegirl review is going to come from instagram y'all know how i do she sent it as a dm so i won't mention her name but she says hi first off i want to thank you for what you've been doing and continue to do your podcast came into my life at the most perfect time and every episode comes exactly when I need it and touches on the exact topic of my days. I want to say thank you and God bless your heart, mind and soul and may your days be filled with nothing but joy and blessings. Listen, homegirl, I love it. Okay. Thank you so much homegirl for this amazing review. I know I already responded to you in the DMs but thank you so much for this amazing review I love you And I just look forward to healing growing and evolving together So now y we going to get into the most favorite part of this episode. Y'all already know what it is, baby. I don't even got to say it, but it is time for the what y'all. It is time for the prayer cause, prayer cause. It is time for the prayer cards, prayer cards, eight, eight, prayer cards, prayer cards, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight. It's time for the prayer cards, y'all. Time to get our word in. So let's see what our prayer cards got for us today. Let's see. Let's see. Where are we going? Oh, okay. Uh-oh, two tried to jump out with. Nah, we ain't going to do two. We ain't going to do two, baby, because if we do two, we going to church. Okay. If we do two prayer cards right now, baby, we going to church. All right. So our scripture comes from Job chapter 22, verse 21. And it says, submit to God and be at peace with him. In this way, prosperity will come to you. Hold up. It says, submit to God and be at peace with him this in this way prosperity will come to you submit to God okay instruction number one be at peace with him instruction number two in this way prosperity will come to you so bookmark the scripture homegirls Job chapter 22 verse 21 again it says submit to God this scripture is really giving us instructions to have a prosperous life. Okay. It says submit to God and be at peace with him. And this way, prosperity will come to you. So bookmark this scripture, y'all make sure that y'all go and visit this scripture and just let me know in the comments what the scripture means to you, all of that good stuff. So we're going to get into the episode and y'all for today's episode, I want to start off by reading this quote that I seen. I don't know if, I don't know if I seen it. I'm thinking like in my mind, when I read the quote, I'm like, it has to be on a sermon or something. I don't remember exactly. All I know is I heard the quote and I was like, oh my goodness, that is good. Let me write that down because I never thought about it like that. So let me just preface by saying that we've been on our little faith tip. Okay. If you have been a home girl, if you've listened to our first couple of episodes for 2025, then, you know, 2025 is the year of faith for home girls. We're on our faith journeys, just building our faith in God and all things faith, really all things faith in God, all things trusting and hoping and believing in God to do the things that we have been praying for him to do. We are having faith. Okay. All 2025. And so I saw this quote, this quote had to have come like, I don't even know how many months ago, it was probably like three or four months ago that I wrote it down. And this quote says, you can have faith for the outcome and still experience the pain of the process. I'm gonna let that sit in. You can have faith for the outcome of whatever situation you are going through and still experience the pain of the process. oh one more time okay you can have faith for the outcome and still experience the pain of the process and when I wrote this quote down I remember when I heard it or seen it what when this quote first came into my view I said oh my goodness that is so good because a lot of times we think that having faith in God just means that we ain't gonna complain no more we ain't gonna wonder like God when you coming through. We're not going to question God a little bit no more. Like we ain't going to worry about none. We just going to give it to God and we going to rest. That is not true. Like that is not a hundred percent true. No matter what level you are on in your relationship with God is still going to be something in you. That's just like, God, don't forget about me, you know, and it's not always that you go into God and you complain into God, but sometimes it just be like You reminding God like God I'm still here I still do got faith Lord I'm still Trusting you okay that not None of that has wavered I still here trusting and believing In you but I just want to remind you that you know your favorite daughter is down here and she still waiting And so when I read this quote, I was like, the reason I felt like this was so good is because sometimes it gets misconstrued. And we we don't understand that having faith in God doesn't mean that we won't still feel the pain. And this quote in particular, it was at a time where I was sitting in my grief like extra heavy. And I was like, you know, I lost my son. I still have faith in God to bless my husband and I with more children. Like I have that faith. However, I still feel the pain of that grief. And so when I use it in that term, I was like, man, I think this would be a really good word because a lot of us are dealing with grief. in some form of another, or we are dealing with things as far as like faith, having faith and, and trusting in God and believing in God for some things. But we think that having faith or being on our faith journey cancels out the pain that we feel during the process. But it's like, no, those both can coexist because first of all, we are still human. So we gonna still feel the pain. My grief ain't just going to get up and walk away, you know, but I still have faith in the midst of that grief in the midst of that process. I still got faith that God is going to come through and he's going to bless again. Like my faith is still standing strong. However, I'm still realistically sitting with the pain of that process. I'm realistically sitting with that grief and dealing with that grief and handling that grief and getting over that grief. Like I'm still doing all of the things so that I can come on the out on the other side of that grief. But my faith is untouched. And I hope this makes sense because that quote really, really like it just had my wires turning because I'm like this. Like I've been looking for something like this. Like when this quote came to me, it really was an answer to what it is I was going through at the time. And like I said, this was like three or four months ago. But this quote was the answer to what I was going through because and I'm just going to be vulnerable for a minute and open up about this. I just felt like after losing my son that I I should if I was going to have faith for God to bless me again, that I should get over losing him. Like I shouldn't even be thinking about it, how I'm thinking about it. Like nothing should be coming up for me because I have faith in God to do it again. So when this quote came and revealed to me, it was like a revelation. And no, no, no, no, no. You don't forget about the process. You don't forget about the pain. You don't cast the pain to the side. You don't push the process to the side just because you still have faith. But no, you take that faith that you have and that faith that God, I know you're going to do it again. God, I know you're going to turn this situation around. God, I know that it's working out for my good. I know that better days are ahead of me. You take that faith and now you couple that faith with, but God, I'm still hurting. God, I was married for 20 years. I can't just get over this right now. But I got faith that you are going to bring me through this divorce untouched. I have faith that there is someone else out there that's waiting for me after this bad relationship. I have faith in that, but that faith doesn't cancel out what I'm feeling. My goodness, that's a word. That is a word. And listen, I pray that you are catching this because I'm really trying to give it to you how like it has been in my mind since I saw this quote. When I tell you that quote really blessed me, it really, really blessed me. It stirred something up in me. It was confirmation to me. And it really changed my outlook on having faith in God. Because a lot of times we think that we, when we have faith in God, that's it. Like we just need to have faith and nothing else is going to go wrong in our life. We ain't going to feel nothing else that hurts us. Nothing else is going to feel bad. And that is so far from the truth. You are going to have faith in God. And baby, you still going to go through the ringer. You still going to experience tough situations. You still gonna go through heartache And hardships and trials and tribulations Just because you have faith Doesn cancel that out But what does your faith say and we talked about this before your faith says that even though I going through this situation it's gonna be better for me eventually so I'm just trying to prove to you that having faith while still going through the process and the pain of whatever it is you are dealing with it can coexist it in fact does coexist with one another we don't have to compartmentalize those things. Like, well, if I got faith in God, then I can't feel the pain of losing my child. If I got faith in God, then I can't feel the pain of this divorce. If I got faith in God, I can't feel the pain of that friendship not working out. Like, no, we can put them together. Like that friendship didn't work out, but I have faith in God that Lord, even in this situation, that the outcome is going to be much greater than I feel right now. Like we can put those things together. And so I just want to encourage you of that. I know that faith is something that a lot of homegirls are trying to build and trying to master. And y'all have really been warming my heart, baby, on y'all faith journey. Because the homegirl, what I really love about it is that y'all not leaving me out here by myself to go on a faith journey. But y'all like, you know what? Our favorite homegirl is on her faith journey, baby. We finna be on our faith journey 2025 too. And I love that you all are interested in how to build your faith in God, how to go on this faith journey. What is a faith journey? How do I have faith? When I tell y'all I love y'all down, like I love y'all so much just for being present in these moments and doing the things that's required to build your faith. And I pray that this episode was one that really helped you, you know, build your faith. I feel like God is going to give me a lot of different episodes when it comes to faith because it's so many pieces. It is so many pieces to this faith journey. And so as I'm learning, of course, I'm going to share with you homegirls. But I love y'all so much. That's it for this episode. I pray that this episode bless y'all. I pray that you took something from this episode. If you did take a nugget from this episode, do your favorite homegirl a favor. Drop it in the comments of this episode If you're listening on YouTube Or if you are If you're watching on YouTube Or if you are listening on Apple Podcasts Or Spotify Go ahead and drop a review And let me know what the name of the episode is And let me know what you took away from this episode I can't wait to read your comments And read your reviews And all of those good things So let's go ahead and close out this episode Y'all know how we gonna do it homegirls We are going to close out With a girl just heal mantra and first we're going to take a deep breath in and out oh that be feeling so good and that is just releasing all of the cares of today yesterday last week this week last month anything that come up to trigger you anything that has come up to trigger you we are releasing that off of us and we're going to repeat the girl just heal mantra together and the Girl Just Healed mantra is I accept myself for who I am I free myself from all fear and today I choose to heal I accept myself for who I am I free myself from all fear and today I choose to heal. I accept myself for who I am. I free myself from all fear and today I choose to heal. So thank you so much for tuning in to this week's episode of the Girl Just Hill podcast. I'm your favorite homegirl, Nimoya Bazin, And until we speak again, girl, just heal. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Girl Just Heal podcast. Be sure to connect with us on social media at Girl Just Heal. And if you need an extra dose of support during your healing journey, join our private Facebook community where we can continue to heal, grow, and evolve together. you