Psalm 31:12
King James Version
12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:
I am like a broken vessel.
How does one heal brokenness?
What does it mean to be "broken"?
How can you be put back together?
Who can help?
JESUS' heart is closest to the broken, and the brokenhearted.
As you shall see in these verses:
2 Chronicles 7:14
King James Version
14 If my people,
which are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray,
and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways;
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
Psalm 34:18
King James Version
18 The Lord is nigh unto them
that are of a broken heart;
and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psalm 51:17
King James Version
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:
a broken and a contrite heart,
O God,
thou wilt not despise.
Psalm 147:2
King James Version
2 The Lord doth build up Jerusalem:
he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Psalm 147:3
King James Version
3 He healeth the broken in heart,
and bindeth up their wounds.
Isaiah 57:15
King James Version
15 For thus saith the high and lofty One
that inhabiteth eternity,
whose name is Holy;
I dwell in the high and holy place,
with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isaiah 66:1-2
King James Version
66 Thus saith the Lord,
The heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool:
where is the house that ye build unto me?
and where is the place of my rest?
2 For all those things hath mine hand made,
and all those things have been,
saith the Lord:
but to this man will I look,
even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit,
and trembleth at my word.
Jeremiah 18:1-8
King James Version
18 The word
which came to Jeremiah from the Lord,
saying,
2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house,
and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
3 Then I went down to the potter's house,
and, behold,
he wrought a work on the wheels.
4 And the vessel that he made of clay
was marred in the hand of the potter:
so he made it again another vessel,
as seemed good to the potter to make it.
5 Then the word of the Lord came to me,
saying,
6 O house of Israel,
cannot I do with you as this potter?
saith the Lord.
Behold,
as the clay is in the potter's hand,
so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation,
and concerning a kingdom,
to pluck up,
and to pull down,
and to destroy it;
8 If that nation,
against whom I have pronounced,
turn from their evil,
I will repent of the evil
that I thought to do unto them.
Matthew 5:1-6
King James Version
5 And seeing the multitudes,
he went up into a mountain:
and when he was set,
his disciples came unto him:
2 And he opened his mouth,
and taught them, saying,
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit:
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they that mourn:
for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek:
for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:
for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:10-12
King James Version
10 Blessed are they
which are persecuted for righteousness' sake:
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye,
when men shall revile you, and persecute you,
and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely,
for my sake.
12 Rejoice,
and be exceeding glad:
for great is your reward in heaven:
for so persecuted they the prophets
which were before you.
Matthew 9:11-13
King James Version
11 And when the Pharisees saw it,
they said unto his disciples,
Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
12 But when Jesus heard that,
he said unto them,
They that be whole need not a physician,
but they that are sick.
13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth,
I will have mercy, and not sacrifice:
for I am not come to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 11:28-30
King James Version
28 Come unto me,
all ye that labour and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you,
and learn of me;
for I am meek and lowly in heart:
and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy,
and my burden is light.
Luke 5:32
King James Version
32 I came not to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance.
Luke 19:10
King James Version
10 For the Son of man is come
to seek and to save that which was lost.
John 3:16-17
King James Version
16 For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world
to condemn the world;
but that the world through him might be saved.
John 5:12-14
King James Version
12 Then asked they him,
What man is that which said unto thee,
Take up thy bed, and walk?
13 And he that was healed wist not who it was:
for Jesus had conveyed himself away,
a multitude being in that place.
14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple,
and said unto him,
Behold,
thou art made whole:
sin no more,
lest a worse thing come unto thee.
John 12:24
King James Version
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die,
it abideth alone:
but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
John 12:25
King James Version
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it;
and he that hateth his life in this world
shall keep it unto life eternal.
John 16:33
King James Version
33 These things I have spoken unto you,
that in me ye might have peace.
In the world ye shall have tribulation:
but be of good cheer;
I have overcome the world.
1 Corinthians 10:13
King James Version
13 There hath no temptation taken you
but such as is common to man:
but God is faithful,
who will not suffer you to be tempted
above that ye are able;
but will with the temptation
also make a way to escape,
that ye may be able to bear it.
2 Corinthians 1:8-10
King James Version
8 For we would not, brethren,
have you ignorant of our trouble
which came to us in Asia,
that we were pressed out of measure,
above strength,
insomuch that we despaired even of life:
9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves,
that we should not trust in ourselves,
but in God which raiseth the dead:
10 Who delivered us from so great a death,
and doth deliver:
in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
Galatians 2:20-21
King James Version
20 I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live;
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:
and the life which I now live in the flesh
I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me, and gave himself for me.
21 I do not frustrate the grace of God:
for if righteousness come by the law,
then Christ is dead in vain.
James 4:6-7
King James Version
6 But he giveth more grace.
Wherefore he saith,
God resisteth the proud,
but giveth grace unto the humble.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:8
King James Version
8 Draw nigh to God,
and he will draw nigh to you.
Cleanse your hands, ye sinners;
and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
James 4:9
King James Version
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep:
let your laughter be turned to mourning,
and your joy to heaviness.
James 5:13
King James Version
13 Is any among you afflicted?
let him pray.
Is any merry?
let him sing psalms.
James 5:14-15
King James Version
14 Is any sick among you?
let him call for the elders of the church;
and let them pray over him,
anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick,
and the Lord shall raise him up;
and if he have committed sins,
they shall be forgiven him.
James 5:16
King James Version
16 Confess your faults one to another,
and pray one for another,
that ye may be healed.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man
availeth much.
1 John 5:14
King James Version
14 And this is the confidence that we have in him,
that, if we ask any thing according to his will,
he heareth us:
1 John 5:15
King James Version
15 And if we know that he hear us,
whatsoever we ask,
we know that we have the petitions
that we desired of him.
The next post speaks on the "SOURCE of WHOLENESS".
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