Greetings to you
all,
I’ve come across
two individuals recently who were and are very broken. A broken spirit because they are heart
broken. One was at the altar with broken
heart because she lost her son and was blaming God. It kind of caught me off guard in that I did
not know how to effectively pray for her.
I could prayer for her but I needed the scripture to use over her as I
prayed. So I searched Google and came up with this piece.
Broken Heart
Jesus
knew this feeling. When he hung on the cross, exposed, beaten and betrayed by
those who loved, he felt very alone. The Bible says he cried out “My God, my
God, why did you abandon me?” (Matthew
27:46)
Maybe
your husband left you. Maybe your parents abandoned you, or your child won’t
speak to you. Maybe you lost someone you loved, or you’re suffering from a
life-threatening illness. And nobody
seems to care (Psalm 69:20 Reproach has
broken my heart, And I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity,
but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none). As hard as these situations are, we can find
comfort in God’s Word! He never promised a life without heartache, but His Word
gives us promises to hold on to when those times come. Psalms
34:18 The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart.
1. When we can’t grasp the nature, significance
or meaning we must know that God is in control.
Isaiah 55:8-11 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor
are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the
earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts
2. God is
near when things are overwhelming and hopeless.
The Lord is near to those who are discouraged; he saves those
who have lost all hope. – Psalm 34:18
3. God
will strengthen you in a time of suffering.
You made me suffer a lot, but you will bring me back from
this deep pit and give me new life. – Psalm 71:20
4. God is
with you through all heartache.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and
through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire
you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. – Isaiah 43:1
5. Hard
times won’t last forever.
I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot
be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. – Romans
8:18
6. God
has a plan for your life even when you think there is no hope.
I alone know the plans I have for you, plans to bring you
prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope for. –
Jeremiah 29:11
7. Don’t
give up. God will not allow us to be
crushed.
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed,
but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not
destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of
Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. – 2 Corinthians 4:8-10
Understand,
when we are in our deepest grief, when we feel farthest from God, this is when
He is closest, and when we are most open to His restoring power. God can heal your spirit. We must go on
living for God willingly and joyfully until that day comes when He will take us
and gently leads us home.
Revelation
21:4 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there
shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain,
for the former things have passed away.”
Every one of us
has had to deal with a broken heart or may still be dealing with a broken
heart. We cannot allow a broken heart to
keep us captive. It will affect us in
the soul, spirit, and the physical.
Proverbs 15:13 A merry heart makes a cheerful
countenance, But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart does good, like
medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.
Tony Sanchez
