To heal the brokenhearted

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord." (Luke 4:18-19)

When Jesus left the desert in the demonstration of the power of the Holy Ghost he made his way into the synagogue as was the custom. When Jesus stood up to preach out of the book of Isaiah the prophet it came forth much differently than the norm of the day. Jesus preached as one who had authority not like the religious leaders of his day. You see a message can be “good” but not anointed. Did you catch that? The anointing is what teaches us and sets us free! Jesus was anointed by the spirit of God to do many things but one I’d like to point out is that he came to heal the brokenhearted.

There are people you and I come across every single day of our lives with broken hearts. Some have been broken by sin. Some have been broken by a failed marriage. Some have been broken by reckless words. Some have been broken by gossip. Some have been broken by people who have ignorantly said false things about them. Some have been broken by past hurts and pains. Some have been broken by disappointments and let downs. Some have been broken by misguided trust. Some have been broken by the loss of a loved one.

If you and I don’t allow the Holy Spirit to deal with our hurts and pains it affects our being and our life. It hinders our fellowship with others and with God. We allow our present hurts to dictate our future and Christ wants to set us free!

For instance, if your heart has been broken by relationships gone bad ignoring the hurt and acting like it isn’t there isn’t going to solve anything! You will only allow anger and offense to spring up in your heart like a poisonous weed! But if you bring your broken heart before Christ and honestly say, “Lord, my heart is broken and I need you to heal it”, I believe he will! He was and is anointed to do that! He alone can do that! No person can do that! Nobody can lay there hands on you and fix that! You can’t go through a 7 step program to recovery to fix that! Christ alone is the answer! He is sufficient! He is enough! There is healing in his word! There is healing in his presence! There is healing in his hands! Allow Christ to touch you because he came to heal your broken heart!