08/12/2025
Your private pain is giving way to public power and anointing!
By: Candace Roberts
Many of you have endured and are currently enduring secret pain. Pain, heartache and tears no one knows about but you.
You are a leader, you are called, you walk others into freedom and destiny, yet you have suffered silently. You have a testimony and share it openly, but there are deep things no one knows but you and Him.
At times it feels as if no one understands, even those closest to you are oblivious to the pain you’ve had to carry. The secret pain has caused you to feel a deep sense of separation and loneliness.
But I see the Lord speaking over you. You were never alone in your pain. There was always someone who knew exactly what you were going through, exactly how you felt. Someone who not only saw your heart but felt it.
He sees your attempts not to hide your pain, but to trust Him with it. He sees you grieving, trusting and waiting in the secret place, just you and Him. You have not complained, you have not tried to explain or justify yourself, you’ve simply surrendered.
He wants you to know that you are separated. You are special before Him. Few can understand you because few have been willing to go where you have been. You have not done anything for accolades or recognition, you’ve simply desired to please Him.
Even when it felt like you were abandoned, when you could have so easily asked why and allowed your heart to grow bitter, you sat quietly. Just you and Him is where your trust has always been. You don’t need anyone to acknowledge your pain, your sacrifice has always been to Him.
He sees you, He knows you. You may be tired and feeling like you haven’t walked this road as well as you should have, but He is SO proud of you.
You never gave up. Never looked to anyone else to be your defender, your justifier. Even when you felt the most alone, you leaned on Him.
So many nights your heart wanted to cry out, do you even see me?!
He is saying to you now, “YES!!! I saw every moment, every tear. None of them were wasted and they were ALL beautiful to me. They touched a place in my heart only you could touch. I’ve held them all for a such a time as this and now I will bring purpose to them. Do not think it was for nothing. Those moments when you chose to stay with me, even in the pain, they are valuable treasures to me. You are completely seen, completely understood, and today I am completely validating you. You my valuable son who stayed with me in the secret place, the place we warred, tarried, cried and surrendered it all. It was the place I birthed you. The place your destiny was forged. It could not have been any other place but that place. I am so thankful you stayed, so thankful you allowed me to mold you and make you into who you are today. It was you alone that had to be placed upon the potters wheel, no one else could go with you. And now you emerge as my beautiful one of a kind creation shaped and fashioned by my hands alone. Now you can step into your purpose, your destiny. Now I will put my creation on display.
Your private pain is giving way to public power and anointing. My son, my daughter our private nighttime sorrow is giving way to the morning. Soon we will be dancing in joy and it will be evident for all to see. Lift your head and your heart, all that you have endured is about to be made beautiful.”
--Candace Roberts,
Trauma informed prophetic counselor
