A Prayer for the Brokenhearted – Your Each day Prayer – July 24

A Prayer for the Brokenhearted
By Jessica Van Roekel

“The Lord is close to to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” – Psalm 34:18, ESV

You would hear her coronary heart breaking. She tried to muffle her sobs, however her physique shook. What she longed for had by no means been granted. Each day she prayed. Each month she hoped. Yearly she begged. However her womb remained empty. Her arms ached to carry a tiny bundle of pleasure, however all she held was a damaged coronary heart.

One 12 months on her annual go to to the temple, Hannah’s wordless prayers caught the eye of Eli, the priest. He accused her of drunkenness, however when he found the rationale for her anguish, he instructed her a toddler could be born to her. She had a son and fulfilled her promise to provide him again to the Lord. God could be close to her then as he was earlier than.

Has a damaged coronary heart ever rendered you with no voice? Have you ever ever been so damaged you had nothing however silence to provide? In these moments it’s simple to despair. Loneliness fools us into pondering we’re the one one who has ever had a damaged coronary heart. However God attracts close to and brings us hope.

Hope is to belief, to attend for, and to endure. Our circumstances try to distract us into pondering hope is a change in circumstances. It’s simple to assume that if our circumstances change, then hope will return. However we discover our hope within the personhood of God. He’s every little thing we may ever hope for, and he guarantees us his presence.

Joseph was separated from his coat of many colours and his father’s love by his jealous older brothers. He was offered as a slave, ran a family, thrown into jail the place he ran that too, and at last was put in cost as second in command to Pharoah. What did he hope? In being remembered by a fellow prisoner for decoding a dream? In his dad sending out a search and rescue staff? No, his hope was in God alone.

Thrice in Genesis 39 it’s written “God was with him.” It doesn’t say Joseph turned his again on God or that he tried to repair his issues or that he hoped in a change in circumstances. God was with him even in his damaged coronary heart. Later in Genesis 45, we get a glimpse into the depths of his damaged coronary heart once we learn how his sobs reverberated past the partitions of the room. Via all of it, Joseph remained devoted to God and God drew close to to consolation him together with his presence.

The disciples had been one other group of people that knew a damaged coronary heart. They watched Jesus die a horrific, painful demise on the cross. They noticed him battle to push himself up the roughhewn log to gasp a breath solely to sink down once more bearing the burden of his physique by means of nail pierced fingers. They witnessed the world turned darkish as evening and felt the earth shake. They heard him commit his life to his father and their hearts shattered. Their hopes and goals of an earthly kingdom lay damaged on the base of the cross.  

When Jesus rose from the useless three days later to defeat demise, they remembered his promise to at all times be with them. In John 14, Jesus promised a Comforter to show them and to be close to them. At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit got here, and 1000’s of individuals surrendered their lives to his Lordship. The disciples by no means once more doubted Jesus’ presence of their lives.

He’s our Comforter right this moment. It’s by means of the ministry of the Holy Spirit that we will know God’s comforting presence when our hearts lay shattered at our toes. We are able to know the ability of God’s presence identical to Hannah, Joseph, and the Disciples knew the nearness of God of their most devastating moments. God is close to the brokenhearted and saves those that are crushed in spirit. We wouldn’t have to stay damaged however can maintain our damaged coronary heart out as an providing to the One who was damaged on our behalf. He attracts close to us and brings us consolation.

Let’s pray:

Holy God,
My coronary heart is so damaged I don’t know that it will probably ever be made entire once more. The ache makes me really feel so alone and I don’t know if I can face yet another day. I do know you hear my cries, even when it feels such as you don’t. Draw close to me and let me really feel your presence. Assist me look past my damaged coronary heart and search for you. I’m grateful you might be with me and on your promise to by no means depart or forsake me.
In Jesus’ title, Amen

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