{"id":7663,"date":"2017-08-16T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=7663"},"modified":"2017-08-14T15:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T19:52:20","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-8-16-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-8-16-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day – 8-16-17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalm 51:17 (NKJV) 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart –\u00a0These, O God, You will not despise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Brokenness. That word alone conjures up images of someone who is hurting and in pain. That person\u00a0has probably endured intense suffering and heartbreak of some kind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nobody likes being broken. It hurts. It crushes our spirit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But being broken is where we need to be before God can truly work in our lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This doesn’t mean that we have to go through tragedy to be broken. But it does<\/i> mean that we have to reach a place where we bow before God and lay ourselves at His feet, in surrender.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Isaiah 66:2 (NKJV) 2 For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,\u201d Says the Lord. \u201cBut on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reverence for God is a huge part of being broken before Him. When we have reached a place of beginning to understand His awesomeness, and we develop a holy fear of Him, then, and only then, will we truly understand being broken before Him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many times we will tell God to break us. We pray for Him to break our will and humble us, bringing us into complete submission to Him. But this is a false notion. God does not desire to break us. He desires for us<\/i> to come to Him in our <\/i>brokenness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Asking God to break us is akin to giving Him permission to cause trials and calamity to come raining down upon us in order to drive us to the ground and have no other place to turn, except to Him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a dangerous prayer, to say the least. Listen to these words of Jesus on this topic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Matthew 21:44 (NKJV) 44 And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder<\/span>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Those are words of powerful truth on this topic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So it’s critically important that we understand this and let God adjust our thinking on this subject. Once we get <\/i>this, it changes the way we see things, perceive things and do things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We will no longer pray and ask God to break us. Instead, we will pray and tell God how much we love Him, honor Him and need Him. And as we do this, we will find ourselves kneeling or laying at His feet, in total surrender, broken before Him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Psalm 51:17 (NKJV) 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart –\u00a0These, O God, You will not despise.\u00a0 Brokenness. That word alone conjures up images of someone who is hurting and in pain. That person\u00a0has probably endured intense suffering and heartbreak of some kind.\u00a0 Nobody likes being broken. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[875],"tags":[2282,2424,2283],"class_list":["post-7663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-broken-before-god","tag-bible-verses-about-being-broken-before-god","tag-bible-verses-about-surrendering-to-god","tag-what-the-bible-says-about-being-broken-before-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7688,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions\/7688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}