Showing posts with label broken heart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label broken heart. Show all posts

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Spirit of Grief Rises to Take the Fight Out of God's People - JAMIE MORGAN CHARISMA MAGAZINE

The spirit of grief has infected many believers. Here is what you can do about it.

The spirit of grief has infected many believers. Here is what you can do about it. (Lightstock )
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I received a word from the Lord for the body of Christ: 
The enemy has attacked the body of Christ with a spirit of grief. A spirit of grief can gain an inroad, not just after the death of a loved one, but also from: 
  • A series of disappointments
  • Your heart broken repeatedly
  • The death of a dream from life taking an unexpected direction
  • A shattered relationship
  • Your heart being battered and bruised from repeated attacks from the enemy
  • Anguish over long-term problems
  • A myriad of other discouraging, devastating and damaging life events 
The enemy attacks with a spirit of grief in order to take the fight out of us. If he can steal our joy, he can steal our fight. If this is you, get alone with God today and:  
1. Bind the spirit of grief, commanding it to loose its hold from you
2. Ask the Lord to reach His healing hand into your spiritual heart and perform spiritual heart surgery—healing open wounds, smoothing over scar tissue, softening the hardened places of your heart, tearing down walls that you have built to protect yourself from future hurts, extracting any bitterness that is in your heart
3. Ask God to restore the joy of your salvation and give you joy unspeakable! 
"He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds" (Psalm 147:3, MEV).

Jamie Morgan is pastor of Life Church (Assemblies of God) and the Life House of Prayer (24/7 prayer). She graduated with her Master of Arts in Practical Theology from Oral Roberts University and is pursuing her Doctor of Ministry at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Let Love Win by Tiffany Ann Lewis (Identity Network)

Let Love Win 

by Tiffany Ann Lewis



"A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle." (Proverbs 18:19) 


There seems to be some difficulty in the translation of this text.  Some scholars see the text as reading, "A brother that is helped by his brother, is like a strong city: and judgments are like the bars of cities." (Douay-Rheims Bible)  The Aramaic Bible in Plain English translates it like this; "A brother is helped by his brother, like a city by its fortress, and they hold it like the bars of a fortress."  


Either way, what seems crystal clear to me is that offences such as bitterness, resentment, and un-forgiveness, can become a type of prison if left unresolved.  Oh sure, at first it feels like those bars are protecting the heart from more hurt, but the truth is, they are preventing individuals from the ultimate relational goal that God has designed.  God designed human beings for fellowship with Him and each other. "It is not good for man to be alone…" (Genesis 2:18) 


Forgiving someone may be one of the hardest choices a Christian will ever make.  With anger, hurt, and a very real sense of injustice fueling the fire of our emotions, we are faced with a very difficult decision…to forgive or not to forgive. 

The specific forgiveness that I sense the Lord speaking about is something more than turning the other cheek; more than not holding a grudge.  I believe the Lord is calling us to a forgiveness that would be willing to extend love again.  Unfortunately, depending on the level of hurt you have experienced, it may feel like a burden you simply can't bear. 


Learning Through Experience 


The heart is a funny little organ.  Responsible for sustaining life, it also has been likened as the source of our emotions too.  We learn by every experience we go through.  Pain teaches us some very powerful lessons in life.  We burn our hand and the pain teaches us how to handle the stove. We fall off our bicycle and the pain teaches us how to balance on two skinny wheels.  

Now, just because we have experienced pain does not mean that we will never use a stove or ride a bike again, oh but the heart…when it gets hurt it doesn't want to love again.  Sometimes it's just easier to build walls and hide behind them than to feel the pain of a broken heart.  The problem with that solution is that love isn't getting in nor is it getting out. 

It's time to break out of the prison of offence and let love win. 


The litmus test to all this is love.  Are we willing to extend our heart again?  You see, it is possible to share your time with someone but still withhold your heart from the relationship.  We can hide our heart and protect it from pain while walking around with tender mercy, kindness, and humility. However, to live this life that Christ has called us to we must extend love again. 

Above all else we are called to love.  

"Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. 14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection." (Colossians 3:12-14) 


The Core of Forgiveness 


Forgiveness that does not extend the heart again isn't really forgiveness at all because love and restoration is at the core of forgiveness.  Let me explain what I call "the grace factor of forgiveness".  The Greek word used here in Colossians for forgiving is "charizomai" (Strong's #5483).  Charizomai is a grace word, it comes from the same root as grace, "charis" (Strong's #5485) and means: to do a favor, to show kindness unconditionally, to give freely, to grant forgiveness, and to forgive freely.   

In other words, forgiveness is an intentional act of releasing one another from the debt that the offence caused.  It is refusing to require the penalty due, literally, to let it go.  The grace factor of forgiveness is giving the offender what they don't deserve…forgiveness. 


Beloved, forgiveness is a choice.  In that moment the pain may or may not go away.  We don't have the power to heal our heart but we serve the One who does.  He has called us to forgive others as He has forgiven us.  Therefore, in His love and mercy, He will supply what we need in order to respond to His request. 


Our power is only the power of choice.  It may take years to experience the emotional freedom and healing of forgiveness but it starts with us making a choice…choosing to let love win.  Amen and Amen. 


Tiffany Ann Lewis

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Friday, August 2, 2013

Ahava Love Letter (#64) - “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart”



 "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart”

“If your heart is broken, you'll find God right there;
if you're kicked in the gut, He'll help you catch your breath.”

 Psalm 34:18

(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language
© 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)



Dear family of friends,

Barry and Robin Gibb recorded the hit song “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” in 1971. It was also a theme in the Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts film Notting Hill, and later recorded by Al Green. My wife Laurie likes the movie. Maybe not this song, as she wasn’t a Bee Gees fan like I was. That’s fine.

So how do you mend a broken heart? First you have to know what one is before you know how it can be mended. Or will just mending do it?

I would imagine a lot of us had a “crush” on someone in our growing years. Brings back to memory the one in grade school who I liked sharing notes with, until she quit because of the new kid in the classroom, whom she then shared with. Broke my fifth grade heart.

And then in high school, when the girl I really liked in my freshman and sophomore years decided the golfer was better than me, the baseball player, and so she quit answering my daily phone calls. Broke my heart then, for sure.

Or the one in college who gave me back the engagement ring because she didn’t want to be a missionary in Africa also, but rather an English school teacher. Now that really broke my heart.

I can somewhat then begin to understand how you can love someone so much, that you are willing to die for them, should it come to the choice between you and the other one being taken out. Laying down your life for another makes one a hero, or so they say. I believe it.

Personally, I only know one person who gave his life for another, and then lived to tell about it. I met him in a real way when I was in college, when I was needing someone who understood the pain of a broken heart. He did.

He loved in such a way that those who had nothing found they could have all, because of him. Others saw him hug the despicable, lift up the shamed, and show the way to the ones so low to the ground even the dirt didn’t want them around. He knew what a broken heart was. He came to experience it himself, so he could then mend, no rather heal, the broken hearted.

His Hebrew name is Yeshua. We have grown up calling Him Jesus. All who call on His name will know Him as He is – the living God of Israel who heals the broken hearted.

His death, after hanging on the tree, the cross, and then rising from the actual broken heart of death, is what sets Him apart. After having experienced the real broken heart, He is now empowered to give us a new heart. Our brokenness can be healed only through His redemptive and resurrection power. I know of no other who can.




As The Message Bible verse declares, “If your heart is broken, you'll find God right there…” (Psalm 34:18)

May His love and healing be experienced by you today in a real way. He loves you. He really does.

Ahava (love in Hebrew) to my family of friends,

Steve Martin
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Ahava Love Letter #64   “How Do You Mend A Broken Heart”
 Date: In the year of our Lord 2013 (08/01/13 Thursday at 10 pm in Charlotte, NC)

All previous editions of Ahava Love Letter can be found on this Blog. Use the Search inthe top right hand corner and enter Ahava Love Letter:

      
Here are the last few:

Anxious (#63)
Hidden (#62)
Get Back in the Boat (#61)
Need Money? (#60)
Rejected? (#59)
In Your Building – Guard Against Distractions (#58)
Connections (#57)
Your Name (#56)

Lost, But Not Forgotten Friends (#55)

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Paul Wilbur - Holy Fire (full CD) - Hosanna! Music


Paul Wilbur - Messianic Praise & Worship Music

01 Holy Fire
02 Jesus Christ Is Lord
03 The Walls Will Come Down
04 The Heavens Must Roll Back
05 The Walls Will Come Down (reprise)
06 Say To The Mountain
07 Now Is The Time
08 Arise O Lord
09 He Shall Reign
10 Let Your Fire Fall
11 Draw Me Lord
12 He Binds The Broken Hearted
13 In Your Presence
14 He Binds The Broken Hearted (reprise)
15 The Fire Of Your Love
16 Burn In Me