Gentle Shepherd Ministries

The Mender Of Broken

Hearts

Is your heart broken?

Has it ever been?

If it isn't, and if it never has been, just remember,

if you live long enough it will be broken.

We just cannot live in this world putting our faith

in other people, no matter who it is.

Broken Hearts are strewn all along the highways and

by-ways of life. When your heart is broken,

it is usually broken because, we loved someone and they hurt us

in such a way that it could happen, only because

we loved them. There are hearts broken when the

one's they loved betrays them. Hearts are

broken when children betray their parents,

or parents betray their children.

Hearts are broken when a loved one dies, and leaves

those whom they loved to continue on after them.

Hearts are broken when friends betray one another.

Most of all, sin breaks the heart of God.

Broken Hearts litter the earth.

Is a broken and contrite heart,

{ broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent }

such, O' God, you will not despise.

I know the heart of Jesus was broken on the Cross

for our sin.

But he loved me so much, he died for you and me,

yes that is right, our sin broke our Lord's heart.

But because of his great love for you and me,

Jesus, with his nail scared hands, lifted the

gates death and hell right off their rusty hinges,

and flung them into the dark abyss of eternity,

and went wading through the ashes of bygone millenniums

of broken dreams, broken lives, and broken hearts.

Jesus went on the most important rescue mission

that has ever been launched in the history of mankind.

The mission was to retrieve us from the clutches

of the devil. This mission could only be done by him.

He did not have to do it, but, he knew that unless he did,

we would be forever lost, and flung into

the flames of hell. O' how he loves us!

{ Curing their pains and sorrows. }

He determines and counts the number of stars,

he calls them by their names.

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.

His understanding is inexhaustible and boundless.

The blood of Jesus poured out for us is like

the balm of Gilead for the brokenhearted.

Jesus is strong enough to defeat devils, yet gentle enough

to reach out to us in our sorrows, laying his nail pierced

hand upon us to heal our broken hearts.

So when we have come to the

end of "Brokenhearted Boulevard",

and come to "Wits End Corner", we need to remember

that Jesus was there before you and I were.

All because God so loved us, that he gave

his only son to die for us.

Then we can trod on "Life's Lane"

and "Victory Boulevard", because, He

is our victory.

He is the way and the only way.

Some of us have been carrying around so much

old baggage of emotional trauma,

that has wrapped itself around us so tightly that

we cannot even look up. But I have good news.

Jesus is right there with you, He reaching out, to take all of

that emotional pain and peel it away from you,

just like you would peel an orange.

He is peeling it off of you, and reaching into

your heart and healing it even now!

Thank you, Jesus!

but the Lord delivereth them out of them all!

has anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel

 of good tidings to the meek, the poor, and afflicted:

He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

to proclaim liberty to the

{ physical and spiritual captives }

captives, and the opening of the prison,

and of the eyes to those who are bound.

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,

{ The year of His favor }

and the day of vengeance of our God,

to comfort all who mourn.

{ The Samaritan Woman }

"If you had only known, and had recognized God's

gift, and who this is that is saying to you,

Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him,

{instead} and He would have given you living water."

One day, in the twinkling of an eye, gravity will forever

lose its hold on every born again Child of God!

Then we will leave this old world. For this world is not

our home. We are just temporary residents here,

and we will take a supernatural journey.

I tell you a mystery.

{ A secret truth, an event decreed by the hidden purpose of God.}

we shall not all fall asleep, { In Death }

but we shall all be changed. { Transformed }

In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, at the

{ Sound of the } last trumpet call.

For a trumpet will sound, and the dead {In Christ} will be raised imperishable,

{ Free and Immune from Decay }

And in the meantime remember, Jesus not only wants to

heal us now, He wants to set us free from all those

sins that so easily wrap themselves around us,

those things that so easily beset us.

He wants us to get our eyes upon Him, and as we gaze

upon our Lord, He will lead us on, and renew our hearts,

and fill us with His joy in this life.

That joy, that only He can give,

like David of old I say,

"Lord renew within me each day, the joy of my salvation."

Yes, Jesus is,

"The Mender Of Broken Hearts! "