The speaker argues you should stop running from your past and instead reclaim it. God uses your history to get your attention, and when you stand before it and declare it no longer defines you, those same experiences become tools for growth.
And part of this is you understanding this and coming to accept this. You come to a place in your life where God smacks you, gets your attention, and through the journey you learn you don't need to silence the past. You need to learn how to stand in front of it and say to it, you no longer define me, now you work for me. Because that's how this goes. The very thing that owned me in my life, the very thing that destroyed you in your life, is a thing now that you get to own, that it gets to work for you.
