Healing Out Loud: From Silent Suffering to Holy Shouting
Let’s open the scene with a man who knew a thing or two about silent suffering — Job.
Before we get deep, if you ever need an example of someone who refuses to suffer silently, my mother-in-love Sheila Robinson will show you the way! (a picture of her and my mother her bestfriend Wanda Renee Mason)
Everywhere she goes, she is loud for Jesus!
Unafraid. Unashamed. Unmuted.
She lives her testimony out loud, and it shakes every room she steps into.
The Bible says in Job 2:13,
“So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.”
Seven days.
No comfort. No answers. No rescue.
Just silence.
But here’s the thing about silence: it’s not always peaceful. Sometimes it’s the enemy’s most subtle weapon. The devil doesn’t just shout lies; he whispers them in quiet places. When Job sat there, broken, scraping himself with pottery shards, the silence was almost louder than the pain.
Silence almost swallowed him whole.
Now fast-forward: why did God allow the suffering?
Why the loneliness?
Why the nights so long they felt eternal?
Because there’s a healing God wants you to live out loud — not just for you, but for the next Job coming down the road.
God doesn’t just heal you for healing’s sake; He heals you to hand you a testimony.
Job’s story didn’t end in the silence.
It ended in Job 42:10:
“And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends…”
Catch that:
God turned it when Job prayed for others.
You suffered in silence so you could speak in deliverance.
You endured alone so you could gather others.
You almost lost yourself — but God was teaching you the sound of survival, the language of hope, the roar of redemption.
Psalm 40:2 says,
“He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.”
He pulled you from the pit so you could holler from the rock.
Not whisper.
Not tiptoe.
But shout. Loud enough that the ones still trapped can hear the way out.
Look at Peter in Acts 3. He healed the lame man at the gate called Beautiful — but Peter himself had first denied Christ in shame! He knew what it meant to fall silent under pressure. But when the Holy Ghost hit him, Peter didn’t just walk around healed; he preached healed.
He healed out loud.
You see, the enemy hoped your silence would be your tomb.
But God used it as your womb.
Out of silent suffering came a loud, living testimony.
Isaiah 61:1 says,
“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives…”
You are sent to the silent ones.
You are called to the crushed ones.
You are anointed for the abandoned ones.
So yes — healing out loud may make some uncomfortable.
It may upset the ones who preferred you broken.
It may rattle the ones who counted you out.
But God’s not looking for polite survivors.
He’s raising up loud healers.
You suffered in silence.
Now you will heal in His Holy sound.
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.
(Psalm 107:2)
Not whisper so.
Not apologize so.
Say so!
You’re healing out loud because God designed it that way — and no devil in hell can mute what God has anointed to roar.