What is in your heart, Deborah? I heard the still, small voice of the Lord asking the question in the midst of my struggles.
My heart? I thought. What do you mean by “heart”? The word heart was like a foreign word to me. I was busy-busy, doing for the Lord and doing for the needy. Didn’t he know that? At the same time, I was attempting to be the best wife, mother, and homemaker on the planet. I was one stressed, overwhelmed young woman! But God heard the cries of my heart even before I knew my heart was crying and broken.
That experience happened many years ago, and little did I know that I was about to embark on a journey of spiritual, emotional, and physical healing that would take my heart to a “secret place” (Psalm 91) where God’s love heals, transforms, empowers, and keeps us moving forward into spiritual maturity and enlightenment.
As we live in this challenging world, God reaches out to all whose hearts have been broken and wounded (that includes all humans on fallen planet earth), offering the promise of Psalm 147:3: “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds [curing their pains and their sorrow].” It is my prayer that these simple posts will encourage many to keep pressing on in a growing, loving, and passionate heart-relationship with Jesus Christ, that through times of faith or times of faltering all will experientially discover that our loving God is always present to help and heal the heart of the struggling soul.
Follow me on a journey of heart-healing, as we learn how the simple prayer of pouring out the heart’s fear, hurt, anger, discouragement , and hopelessness onto Jesus makes room for His Holy Spirit to refill the heart with His love, joy, peace, hope, and faith. God desires and promises true heart healing for each of His children.
So I ask, what is in your heart?