The Key for Healing a Broken Heart

The Key for Healing a Broken Heart

Is there hope for healing a broken heart? Something or someone has just broken your heart. You were caught off-guard by a betrayal, a shocking behavior, or loss of a loved one. Suddenly you are feeling like you’ve lost all hope . . . you can feel a physical aching in your chest that leaves you wounded and scarred. How can you ever hope to recover or discover what steps will end this suffering?

We all know that emotions are a vital part of the way we are made. Yet we can’t understand why it takes so long to heal from emotional injuries. We would never prematurely remove a cast or sutures until the broken bone or skin was fully restored. We must realize complete emotional healing requires time. The book of Psalms offers great comfort when experiencing long-term emotions like sadness, fear, and grief. “He heals the brokenhearted, binding up their wounds” (Psalm 147:3). God is the only One that can restore our emotions and our attitude Our human tendency is to avoid painful situations, even burying them. That will bring tragic results.

Broken heart - pain and implications of no healing

A broken heart can result in a hardened heart - difficulty loving.

A broken heart can result in bitterness - the intention to get revenge.

A broken heart can bring on health problems, even heart problems as a result in emotion express in our body.

So what is the Key to Healing a Broken Heart – The key is trust!
But can we ever trust those who hurt us so deeply? Yes, if we first trust our Lord. There are some steps we can take to restore this Trust.

Broken heart prayer - how to do it.

Recall

Psalm 16:8 "I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken."
-First tell Jesus what you need and recall to him your hurt as the result of your experience. Trust and stand by faith in the position that Jesus is taking care of your heart. If you feel a positive emotion after praying and doing this, then wait and soak in that feeling.

You may be sensing the love and life of God. Invite the Holy Spirit to stay and deepen the effect of this prayer.

I know this can make a great difference in your life. It can help your heart from getting totally bitter and hard.

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• Release – “. . (Mark 11:25). And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. Choose to let go of past hurts and forgive those who caused them. Over the years bad experiences will drive a wedge between us and friends, families and even between us and our Lord. Miraculously, when we choose to forgive God removes us from the conflict and wedge. Our heart may be sadden that others have not chose to forgive, but because we have, God will remove our guilt and replaced it with His Peace.

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• Refocus – (Ephesians 3:20) Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, By [God’s] mighty power at work within us, he is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope. Fix your eyes back on Jesus. Immerse yourself in God’s Word and think on things of Him. He will be faithful to put you back on track.
• Receive – “[God] comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When others are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us” (2 Corinthians 1: 3-4) Receive His healing, His truth and His purpose for you. Then watch Him used this painful experience in your life to point someone else to Him.
• Healing a Broken Heart – There is a reason
  Once there was a young man who proclaimed to have the most beautiful, flawless heart. An old man challenged him. The crowd looked at the old man’s heart. It was beating strongly, but full of scars. Some pieces had been removed and others had been put in, but didn’t fit quite right. The old man looked at the young man, “I would never trade my heart for yours. Every scar represents a person I’ve given my love -- I tear out a piece and give it to them. Sometimes they give me a piece of their broken heart, which I fit along jagged edges. When the person doesn’t return my love, a painful gouge is left. Those gouges stay open, reminding me that I love these people too. Perhaps someday they will return and fill that space.”
  
  
  

We would never choose to have a broken heart! The agony and recovery time is just too unbearable. There is Someone, however, who had a flawless heart and chose to have it broken. Medically when a heart ruptures (breaks) water gushes out (John 19:33-34). So in every way, Jesus experienced a broken heart. He understands betrayal, temptation, and loss (Isaiah 53:3; Luke 22:33-34; Matthew 14:10-13). He is our Comforter, Counselor, and Companion who fills our heart’s empty spaces.

Healing Prayer is for those who are ready to say: "I can't do this. I need God to do it."

Are you ready to say: "This is too much for me. I need God to heal my life?" When we admit our own poverty, lack of resources, helplessness, then we are ready to let God heal us. Are you willing to let go of -control. Ready to let God heal your broken heart? the broken heart prayer is a way to: "Let go and let God."

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit (Psalm 34:18).

The image of heartbreak describing the devastating emotional pain of a broken relationship or loss of a loved one transcends culture and is expressed in the same way in almost every language. We feel the pain of betrayal, separation and isolation deeply at the core of our soul. It feels as if our heart really is breaking - because of course, it is. God understands this experience because he himself has lived through a broken heart. . Through his love for us, he has endured unfaithfulness and desertion. God understands our loneliness and identifies with us. We can talk to him about this experience and ask him for help at our deepest point of despair - because he's been there himself! If you are at that point right now cry out to Him. He specializes in mending broken people. I know because He has put me back to together over and over again and brought meaning to situations I would have never known if I had not Call on His precious name for help.

PRAYER

"God, you care deeply for broken-hearted people. This is a promise you make: You are close. We pray for all those who are crippled by broken relationships. Our hearts take the blow of disappointment. We feel crushed because our hopes are dashed. God, heal broken hearts. We cannot fix our own wounds. But you can. If pieces of our heart have been lost, or are held captive by another, recover them and bring them back to us and miraculously "put us back together" so that our heart is whole again. You are a mender of broken hearts. We ask for this miracle, in the name of Jesus."