1 Cor 10:13 (NIV) No temptation has seized you except what is COMMON to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

Satan likes to convince us that our sins, habits, and addictions are unique. He tells us that no one in the whole world has ever gone through anything like we are going through. Well maybe it isn't quite that dramatic. But he does try to isolate us from those around us by telling us that no one will understand. This feeling of uniqueness keeps us from thinking we can minister to others when we get the victory. Another thing that keeps us from ministering to others in areas of victory is the fact that we don't have a degree. We haven't gone to theological seminary. What in the world would cause people to want to listen to us? What would give us the right to start telling others how to live their life?

John 9:1-39 (NIV) As He went along, He saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. As long as it is day, we must do the work of Him Who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." Having said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. "Go," He told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means Sent).

So the man went and washed, and came home seeing. His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, "Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?" Some claimed that he was. Others said, "No, he only looks like him." But he himself insisted, "I am the man." "How then were your eyes opened?" they demanded. He replied, "The Man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see." "Where is this Man?" they asked him. "I don't know," he said. They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.

Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man's eyes was a Sabbath. Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. "He put mud on my eyes," the man replied, "and I washed, and now I see." Some of the Pharisees said, "This Man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath." But others asked, "How can a sinner do such miraculous signs?"