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Have you ever asked, “How much heartache must I know?”
I guess at some point in our life, we’ve all asked that question. I guess many of us have even asked God that question, and wondered when He was going to say, “enough is enough”.
Sometimes we can cry so much that it’s hard to imagine you can still have any tears left to cry. Personally I find at those times, that I find myself crying just because… i.e. I don’t know why I’m crying any more it’s simply that that’s what I want to do!
When you feel you’ve got no more to give and you’ve cried every tear you could possibly cry, do not despair because God is there. He can heal your wounds and mend your broken heart and make you whole again. Trust Him!
I’m sure you’d heard plenty of folk say that, “Laughter is the bestmedicine“, but sometimes when life sucks, laughing is the last thing you want to do and can feel like something you’ll never feel like doing again. That’s why sometimes the complete opposite can actually be the best medicine for us…i.e. crying
Laughter is the best medicine, but never forget tears are healing. ~ Marie Wikle
Talking from my own experiences, there have been times when laughing has been the furthest thing from my mind, however after having a good old cry (sometimes for hours at a time) things haven’t seemed so bad. I’m not saying that crying solves all your problems, far from it, but what I am saying is that sometimes we just need to let go of all emotions that have built up in us and have a good old cry.
Yesterday in Are They Blessings In Disguise #1 I talked about how the situations and circumstances we find ourselves in can be blessings, even if we don’t realise it at the time!
But how about people? During our lifetime we meet and encounter thousands of people, some for only a few seconds, others for years, but can we tell which people we meet are blessings and which we shouldn’t entertain in our lives?
We know of people in our lives who from the instant we meet them, we know we’re going to hit it off with them, that we can trust them with anything at any time. Then there are those who as soon as we meet them we feel uncertain and unsure whether they a genuine and can be trusted. It can be difficult sometimes to distinguish between these people sometimes, however, once in a while we can get it all wrong…
Have you ever made a judgement about someone when you first met them, thinking they will not become a true friend, only to find a while later that you’ve been completely wrong, that that person is in fact more genuine and trustworthy than you could have imagined. In yesterday’s blog post I recounted how I had someone unexpected reach out to me…that person was one of those people. Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t that I ever thought I couldn’t trust that person, but simply that I had never imagined us having the opportunity or requirement to become close friends and confidants.
So again you can see people, as well as circumstances can be a blessing from God, so don’t pre-judge people before you get to know them, as you never know they may just be your blessing in disguise!
This last week I’ve been talking about healing, and how God can heal us. However God’s healing is not just about healing our physical and emotional scars, it’s about healing our heart.
How can we ever hope to truly move on with our life and accept the situations we find ourselves in if we don’t allow God to heal our heart?
It’s even deeper than just our heart God wants to heal…it’s our whole life. We can never truly be healed if we don’t let God into every part of our life.
Dear Lord, I pray today that you may help each of us to give the whole of our lives to you, so that you might heal all our wounds. By helping heal our wounds, I know you will make us stronger as people, but more importantly, as Christians. So Lord, heal us and use us to help guide others to you so that they too might find healing. Amen
The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the exiles of Israel. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.
When we’re ill or unwell, we rely on doctors and other medical professionals to determine what’s wrong with us, and make us better. However sometimes even the experiences medical professionals are unable to find a cause of the illness or maybe they’re unable to cure you, what then? We pray for healing!
That does not mean that we should pray for healing only as a last resort. Far from it, we should pray to God for healing even when we’re first unwell. All our prayers to God should not be a “last resort”, they should be because we have faith in God during all of life’s events, and trust that whatever situation we find ourself in, God will provide for us.
No matter what “wounds” we may have, God can help heal them, physical or emotional, recent or long-standing, so take all your wounds to Him in prayer.
God of Light, take away the dark of nightFill me with Your pure delight, touch me with Your hand.God of grace, flow into this lowly place,Listen as Your children pray, take me as I am.ChorusHealer of my heart, Lover of my soulMaker of the stars, the earth, the sky, Come and make me wholeSavior of this world, my voice praises You aloneHealer of my heart, Lover of my Soul.Emmanuel, lead me to deepest wellWhere never-ending love prevails, drinking from Your cupPrince of Peace, forever live inside of me,Keeper of eternity, O Lord, revive me with Your touchChorus
January can be a difficult month for many, as following the highs of Christmas and New Year, the contrast of the following weeks in January when the dark cold mornings and nights when we’re going to and from work can pull us down. It can result in us falling into a darkness, a depression, which can be difficult to shake.
It’s times like these when we must hold onto our faith, and trust God to guide us through and remind us that we can rely on him for everything we need.
I pray that if you’re struggling to cope with life, you will stay faithful to God, and trust Him to help you through these difficult days.
When we’re broken there’s one person who can always heal our hurts…God!
Even when we’re in pieces and feel no-one can put us back together, God can still put you back together and guide you through your tough time.
If you’re struggling with life, health problems, broken relationship or any other thing, please ask God to heal your hurts, because I can honestly tell you He can help you and He can heal your hurts regardless of what they may be.
Ever thought that God doesn’t really know what He’s doing?
I have! Yes, when I’ve found life a real struggle (and that includes these last few days), I wondered Is God really there? and Is He really listening to me? because sometimes it has seemed liked days, even weeks since God has been there for me.
As the words of this song remind us, maybe when we haven’t been expecting it, God has actually been talking to us:
What if Your blessings come through raindrops? What if Your healing comes through tears What if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You’re near?What if trials of this life Are Your mercies in disguise?
Maybe we all just need to listen to God a bit closer!
We pray for blessings, we pray for peace Comfort for family, protection while we sleep We pray for healing, for prosperity We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things
Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops? What if Your healing comes through tears What if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You’re near?
What if trials of this life Are Your mercies in disguise?
We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
And all the while You hear each desperate plea And long that we’d have faith to believe
Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears? What if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You’re near?
And what if trials of this life Are Your mercies in disguise
When friends betray us, when darkness seems to win We know the pain reminds this heart That this is not, this is not our home It’s not our home
Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears? And what if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You’re near?
What if my greatest disappointments Or the aching of this life Is the revealing of a greater thirst This world can’t satisfy?
And what if trials of this life The rain, the storms, the hardest nights Are Your mercies in disguise?
I was first directed to this song a couple of days ago by a friend, and from the moment I read the words and then listened to the music I loved it…the music so sensitively reinforces the message given by the words.
Here’s a few of my favourite bits and my reasons:
What if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You’re near?
These lines remind me that although it may sometimes feel as though God seems far away and forgotten about me, He is still there. It may just be God’s plan that we go through some tough times for what may seem like an eternity to us.
We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
As with the first of my favourite lines, this section reminds us of the times when we doubt whether God is still there for us, and His love for us. In the bible, God has promised to love us forever, so these words remind us of this promise which should be all we need.
And all the while You hear each desperate plea And long that we’d have faith to believe
And best of all, are the above words, where we’re reminded that God does hear all our prayers, all our pleading…all we have to do is believe in Him, always.
