Pandemic Preaching -- To Those Of Us Who Are Brokenhearted

Pandemic Preaching -- To Those Of Us Who Are Brokenhearted

- August 15, 2020

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed."

Psalm 34:18

In other words, the Lord is there to rescue all who are discouraged and all who have given up hope.

King David uttered this word, "brokenhearted" to describe perfectedly what he was going through.

Literally he was telling His Creator that his heart was broken and that his spirit was crushed because of what he was going through at that time.

He didn't have to tell His Maker that, for He would have already knew that. In fact God knows the limit of what David could endure. It was David, who didn't know that he could go through what he was going through without actually going through it.

Desperate Time

In this time, the Lord has allowed most, if not all of us to go through something that is breaking our hearts and crushing our spirits.

It is not because He is testing us or punishing us. But He does want us to be like David who in his trying times have gone direct to the throne of heaven, to the very heart of God.

We can to, in fact Our heavenly Father has been patiently waiting all this time.

Remember this poem that Daivd wrote and sang out to the Lord is on point, God is near and we just need to reach out and touch His heart, like David always does, in both the best of times and most especially in the worst of times.

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The Shepherd and His Flock

“I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.

Therefore Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

John 10 (NIV 84)

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