Tag: What the Bible says about letting God heal your heart

Bible Verse of The Day – 4-15-23

Psalm 147:3 (NKJV) 3 He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds.

I was recently reflecting about when my dad passed away.

I couldn’t explain how I felt at first. But looking back, I remembered my mom talking about the expression I had on my face, and how I yelled when he took his last breath, “my Papa’s gone!”.

At that moment, I felt something leave me and I didn’t quite understand it for a long time.

It was a year and a half later that I found myself on my knees asking God to help me learn to live without my father. You see, when a person has a big presence in our lives, it fills a part of us.

When someone we love leaves us, there is an empty spot. That spot remains empty until we fill it with something comparable.

For some it’s our work. For others it’s spending money, or dating. For others, it may be starting a project. Or we may try to fill it by overeating or drinking.

We will fill it with anything that will bring comfort there once again.

It’s not terrible to want to fill that empty void that was left by their absence.

However, I found with me that everything I was doing was not helping me. I couldn’t even enjoy some of the great blessings God was bringing me. My heart needed healing.

I cried out to God because no matter what I did, I couldn’t make that spot fill up. When I asked God to help me, He came and filled it with what was missing.

Only God knows what we need when we lose someone or something dear to us.

What this world offers will never fill that void. It can’t.

But if we surrender that empty spot to Him, He will come and pour the exact amount of what we are missing right into that spot!

God is faithful to take care of that spot! His joy comes in the morning.

Psalm 30:5 (NKJV) 5 For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-9-20

Genesis 48:20 (NKJV) 20 So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will bless, saying, ‘May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh!’ ” And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

We want to talk today about the importance of these two names, Manasseh and Ephraim.

These are the names of the two sons of Joseph, also known as Zaphnath-Paaneah, and his wife, Asenath. Both names mean something very important.

The first-born son, Manasseh, means making forgetful.

Genesis 41:51 (NKJV) 51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: “For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father’s house.”

You see, it was very important for Joseph to let God help him forget what was done to him (Genesis 37:18-28).

Yes, we all know that what Joseph  went through in his father’s house was wrong. What was done to him was unfair and unjust. But it happened; his brothers sold him into slavery. You can’t take that back. You can’t undo it.

This is a hurtful thing for anyone to have to experience. But it didn’t end there for Joseph (Genesis 39:7-20)

Another unfair thing happened to him when Potiphar’s wife wanted Joseph to be with her. Joseph refused. He would not do such a thing.

In her anger at his refusal, she made it look like he was the one making unwanted advances toward her.

Joseph ended up being thrown into prison because of her lies. And he was there for many years, serving time for a crime he did not commit.

God helped Joseph forget his toil, his suffering, his pain and anguish regarding all he went through.

Now, Ephraim meant fruitfulness.

Genesis 41:52 (NKJV) 52 And the name of the second he called Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

God’s fruitfulness was on Joseph’s life no matter where he was on that path of afflictions. As a slave or in prison, Joseph saw God’s hand on his life.

Let us say today that without Manasseh, being able to forget or let go, letting God take away the pain and sorrow of the losses in our lives, there will not be an Ephraim, fruitfulness.

They come together as a pair.

In order for Ephraim (the fruitfulness of God) to work, we have to have the Manasseh (the forgetting and the letting go of our hurtful past) birthed in our hearts.

If we are truly ready for His fruitfulness in our lives today, we need to give up the sorrow, the bad memories and the pain.

Let God take it. Walk in His peace and let our future be fruitful and blessed forevermore.

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-18-17

Psalm 3:3(NKJV) 3 But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.

Have we been broken by someone we care deeply about, someone we love and now they are just gone? They have left us feeling empty and wounded.

Sometimes people are hurting and they don’t even realize they are hurting others by their actions. Other times it is intentional. Either way, it hurts us.

How do we overlook one’s faults and forgive them? Through eyes of mercy and grace. Through loving more than we even know how. It’s God’s love, mercy and grace moving through us, taking what we don’t understand and bringing comfort and peace in the midst of it all.

If we are the one that has been hurt and we are down and out today, we shouldn’t beat ourselves up. We have been through some trials that take time for the wounds to heal that have stemmed from the pain.

But we must keep moving forward, even if that forward motion is getting up and doing something different today. Sometimes we just need to get it off our minds and think of nice and pleasant things.

Know that the Lord is there and He will help lift us up and put us back together, one day at a time.

Our prayers are with you and you’re going to make it. God is faithful!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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