“My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise” (Psalm 51:17). It’s quite possible you have heard this verse ofScripturebefore. You may have even applied it in some way or fashion to your life or circumstance. To gain true u...
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the
15For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. ...
“Behold, My servants will shout joyfully with a glad heart, But you will cry out from a painful heart, And you will wail from a broken spirit.NASB 1995“Behold, My servants will shout joyfully with a glad heart, But you will cry out with a heavy heart, And you will wail with a ...
A glad heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.Amplified BibleA happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.Christian Standard BibleA joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones....
God is visiting Bethlehem with such pain these days in the birth of broken children. Randy and Ann Erickson with their baby’s broken heart; Jan and Rob Barrett with their baby’s liver outside the body; and your precious little one! Is the Lord saying, “I have a gift for your commu...
It isn’t right and it’s not the heart of God.It’s religion that comes to us in its gradient forms of foolishness. It doesn’t really reflect the intense seeking of God. Somehow, along the way, churches got lost in the routine efforts of a religious routine. ...
“Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some”must anchor us. We were built for real fellowship. It’s quite easy to attempt to go it alone, but that isn’t what God wants, it’s wrong. Not being with others is a disease of the spiritual heart. I’ve chafed at th...
worship—Desperate prayers have a tendency to get answered.Start praying for five minutes a day. Pray, do not complain. Be real, not religious. Talk with Jesus like he was your best friend. Prayer is the key to making the above work. Prayer is the “heartbeat” of heaven.And of ...
“Humility is perfect quietness of heart, It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised.”