Can You Let God Heal Your Broken Heart?
Today’s Bible reading is from the book of Psalms 147:1-6
Ps147:1-6 1) Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and praise is beautiful. 2) The Lord builds up Jerusalem; He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. 3) He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. 4) He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name. 5) Great is our Lord, mighty in power; His understanding is infinite. 6) The Lord lifts up the humble; He casts the wicked down to the ground.
I almost left out verse 1 because I have at times experienced such broken heartedness that the idea of praising God or even thinking happy thoughts was at the time nauseating. I can share with my readers that there have been many hurts in my life. I have experienced heartbreaking pain so severe that I actually at one point in time had written God and the entire human race off! The only humans I had contact with were my customers and my children.
Perhaps if I had been reminded of the verses I’m sharing today, it could have spared me years of brokenness, loneliness and feelings of being rejected by God Himself. You see, I had spent 18 years of my life involved with a fellowship that would find the hurting, the lost and the addicted young people in the world and get them saved. If it were as simple as that then they would be God’s heroes, doing His perfect will. Right?
It is a fellowship of control and human domination that preys on the less fortunate in life and manipulates them into their leader’s ego driven church planting robots. Every decision they made, every breathe they took is to further support world evangelism and church planting. If anyone challenges, questions or confronts their pastor’s domination, they are soon labeled rebels or losers who couldn’t cut it in the ministry. They are then outcast and shunned. The fellowship doesn’t admit that they shun people but there is no other word for their treatment of those who dare to think for themselves.
Overnight everyone I knew for the prior 18 years was now shunning me. I preached in their churches, prayed for their sick and saw legitimate miracles, even locked elbows with these people and swore oaths with them that we would unite and take the world for Jesus! And now they won’t even talk with me or answer their phones when I called. I was nothing to them. Why? Because their pastor said so. Because he knew that I knew he was taking money to plant churches and keeping it for his own wants. Imagine how broken I was. I knew these people for years in fact they were all I knew! And now I’m nothing to them.
I forgave, but for years I isolated myself from people and wanted nothing to do with church life. God is patient though. He was faithful to bring me back into His church, a different church, one that allows God to be in control and gets out of His way. And God was also faithful to heal me of my broken heart and spirit. Just as He wants to do for you! Yes, you have a different situation, a different heart than mine, and most likely different circumstances all together. But we have the same creator and He who made you can repair your brokenness! Here are some scriptures that show us how healing our sorrows was a big part of why Christ came.
Isaiah53:4-5 4 Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
Luke 4:18-19 18 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.” (In Luke 4:18-19 Jesus is reading a prophesy about Himself from Isaiah 61:1)
A prayer for the broken hearted: “Lord I believe your word from the Bible that you came to heal my broken heart I ask you right now to come into my heart and cleanse me of my pain and sorrow, I ask you Lord to renew my heart and spirit. I ask you to give my strength and renew my hope! I thank you for hearing me from heaven today Lord and I place my situation into Your hands I place my trust in You Lord Jesus to work out Your perfect will in my situation. I receive Your forgiveness, I receive Your strength to forgive, and I receive Your love and healing right now in Jesus name. Amen!”
Today’s Bible reading is from the book of Psalms 147:1-6
Ps147:1-6 1) Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and praise is beautiful. 2) The Lord builds up Jerusalem; He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. 3) He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. 4) He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name. 5) Great is our Lord, mighty in power; His understanding is infinite. 6) The Lord lifts up the humble; He casts the wicked down to the ground.
I almost left out verse 1 because I have at times experienced such broken heartedness that the idea of praising God or even thinking happy thoughts was at the time nauseating. I can share with my readers that there have been many hurts in my life. I have experienced heartbreaking pain so severe that I actually at one point in time had written God and the entire human race off! The only humans I had contact with were my customers and my children.
Perhaps if I had been reminded of the verses I’m sharing today, it could have spared me years of brokenness, loneliness and feelings of being rejected by God Himself. You see, I had spent 18 years of my life involved with a fellowship that would find the hurting, the lost and the addicted young people in the world and get them saved. If it were as simple as that then they would be God’s heroes, doing His perfect will. Right?
It is a fellowship of control and human domination that preys on the less fortunate in life and manipulates them into their leader’s ego driven church planting robots. Every decision they made, every breathe they took is to further support world evangelism and church planting. If anyone challenges, questions or confronts their pastor’s domination, they are soon labeled rebels or losers who couldn’t cut it in the ministry. They are then outcast and shunned. The fellowship doesn’t admit that they shun people but there is no other word for their treatment of those who dare to think for themselves.
Overnight everyone I knew for the prior 18 years was now shunning me. I preached in their churches, prayed for their sick and saw legitimate miracles, even locked elbows with these people and swore oaths with them that we would unite and take the world for Jesus! And now they won’t even talk with me or answer their phones when I called. I was nothing to them. Why? Because their pastor said so. Because he knew that I knew he was taking money to plant churches and keeping it for his own wants. Imagine how broken I was. I knew these people for years in fact they were all I knew! And now I’m nothing to them.
I forgave, but for years I isolated myself from people and wanted nothing to do with church life. God is patient though. He was faithful to bring me back into His church, a different church, one that allows God to be in control and gets out of His way. And God was also faithful to heal me of my broken heart and spirit. Just as He wants to do for you! Yes, you have a different situation, a different heart than mine, and most likely different circumstances all together. But we have the same creator and He who made you can repair your brokenness! Here are some scriptures that show us how healing our sorrows was a big part of why Christ came.
Isaiah53:4-5 4 Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
Luke 4:18-19 18 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.” (In Luke 4:18-19 Jesus is reading a prophesy about Himself from Isaiah 61:1)
A prayer for the broken hearted: “Lord I believe your word from the Bible that you came to heal my broken heart I ask you right now to come into my heart and cleanse me of my pain and sorrow, I ask you Lord to renew my heart and spirit. I ask you to give my strength and renew my hope! I thank you for hearing me from heaven today Lord and I place my situation into Your hands I place my trust in You Lord Jesus to work out Your perfect will in my situation. I receive Your forgiveness, I receive Your strength to forgive, and I receive Your love and healing right now in Jesus name. Amen!”
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