SOUL RESET PART 3 - Healing the Broken Heart
February 16, 2025
- The Soul is made up of your mind, will and emotions.
- Part of the restoration of the soul is healing the broken heart; it will involve being made
5 Then the word of the Lord came to me. 6 He said, ‘Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?’ declares the Lord. ‘Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. —Jeremiah 18:5-6
- “broken heart” is a metaphorical expression describing a feeling of
The Lord is
to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. —Psalm 34:18
- When broken-hearted we may
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to bind up [heal] the broken-hearted. —Isaiah 61:1
- All
Since my people are crushed, I am crushed;
I mourn, and horror grips me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no healing
for the wound of my people? —Jeremiah 8:21-22
- “Balm of Gilead”: A healing ointment believed to come from the region of Gilead in the Bible.
Examples of people in the Bible who were brokenhearted:
1. Naomi.
‘Don’t call me Naomi (Pleasant or Sweet) she told them. ‘Call me Mara (bitter) because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. 21 I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.’ —Ruth 1:20-21
2. Hannah the Mother of Samuel.
\‘Not so, my lord,’ Hannah replied, ‘I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the Lord. 16 Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.’ 17 Eli answered, ‘Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.’ —I Samuel 1:15-17
3. Peter wept bitterly after denying the Lord but he was
. Luke 22:62
Receiving Healing for a Broken Heart:
1. See Him
and know Who He truly is.
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
He leads me beside quiet waters,
He restores my soul. —Psalm 23:1-3a11 ‘I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.14 ‘I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me. —John 10:11-14
2.
the Lord.
- Hannah sought the Lord when she was broken hearted. When she was filled with anguish and grief because of her barrenness.
4 I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.
5 Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.
6 This poor man called, and the Lord heard him; he saved him out of all his troubles. —Psalm 34:4-6
3.
ourselves to the Word of God.
- Naaman had to dip himself 7 times in the Jordan to be healed of leprosy.
- Jn 9:7 Jesus told the blind man to go and wash himself in the pool of Siloam
- The lepers in Luke 17 were told to go and show themselves to the priests.