A Prayer for the Brokenhearted – Your Daily Prayer – July 24

A Prayer for the Brokenhearted
By Jessica Van Roekel

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

You could listen to her coronary heart breaking. She tried to muffle her sobs, but her physique shook. What she longed for had by no means been granted. Every day she prayed. Each thirty day period she hoped. Each individual 12 months she begged. But her womb remained empty. Her arms ached to maintain a very small bundle of joy, but all she held was a damaged heart.

A person calendar year on her yearly check out to the temple, Hannah’s wordless prayers caught the attention of Eli, the priest. He accused her of drunkenness, but when he found out the motive for her anguish, he instructed her a boy or girl would be born to her. She had a son and fulfilled her promise to give him back to the Lord. God would be in close proximity to her then as he was before.

Has a broken heart at any time rendered you with no a voice? Have you at any time been so broken you had nothing but silence to give? In all those times it is uncomplicated to despair. Loneliness fools us into thinking we’re the only one who has ever had a damaged heart. But God draws in close proximity to and brings us hope.

Hope is to have faith in, to wait for, and to endure. Our circumstances try to distract us into thinking hope is a modify in situations. It’s uncomplicated to think that if our conditions adjust, then hope will return. But we uncover our hope in the personhood of God. He is every thing we could ever hope for, and he promises us his existence.

Joseph was separated from his coat of many shades and his father’s enjoy by his jealous older brothers. He was bought as a slave, ran a family, thrown into prison in which he ran that also, and lastly was put in demand as next in command to Pharoah. What did he hope? In getting remembered by a fellow prisoner for decoding a dream? In his father sending out a search and rescue crew? No, his hope was in God by yourself.

3 occasions in Genesis 39 it is penned “God was with him.” It does not say Joseph turned his again on God or that he attempted to correct his issues or that he hoped in a transform in conditions. God was with him even in his damaged coronary heart. Later in Genesis 45, we get a glimpse into the depths of his damaged heart when we study how his sobs reverberated outside of the partitions of the home. By way of it all, Joseph remained faithful to God and God drew in close proximity to to ease and comfort him with his presence.

The disciples were being one more team of people today who knew a damaged coronary heart. They watched Jesus die a horrific, unpleasant demise on the cross. They saw him battle to push himself up the roughhewn log to gasp a breath only to sink down once more bearing the pounds of his overall body by way of nail pierced arms. They witnessed the environment turned dark as night time and felt the earth shake. They listened to him dedicate his everyday living to his father and their hearts shattered. Their hopes and dreams of an earthly kingdom lay damaged at the foundation of the cross.  

When Jesus rose from the dead a few times afterwards to defeat demise, they remembered his promise to usually be with them. In John 14, Jesus promised a Comforter to train them and to be in the vicinity of them. At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit arrived, and hundreds of people today surrendered their lives to his Lordship. The disciples never ever again doubted Jesus’ presence in their life.

He is our Comforter right now. It is through the ministry of the Holy Spirit that we can know God’s comforting presence when our hearts lay shattered at our toes. We can know the ability of God’s existence just like Hannah, Joseph, and the Disciples knew the nearness of God in their most devastating moments. God is close to the brokenhearted and saves individuals who are crushed in spirit. We do not have to continue being damaged but can keep our broken heart out as an featuring to the A single who was damaged on our behalf. He attracts in close proximity to us and brings us convenience.

Let’s pray:

Holy God,
My heart is so damaged I never know that it can ever be made complete again. The suffering would make me experience so by yourself and I never know if I can confront just one more day. I know you hear my cries, even if it feels like you never. Draw in the vicinity of me and enable me really feel your presence. Assistance me appear beyond my damaged heart and seem for you. I’m grateful you are with me and for your guarantee to under no circumstances go away or forsake me.
In Jesus’ identify, Amen

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