This is a great message of hope for those whose hearts are breaking during this pandemic……Be encouraged!
Healing Heartache/ Heart Attack series- Dr. Dharius Daniel, Change Church
There is an attack that goes beyond the physical
-What can we take when our hearts are hurting? What do we take for a heartache?
-We can have an ache in one area that adversely affects another area
- When our heart is aching, it will show up in our relationships, choices
- Proverbs 4:23 says for us to guard our heart
Some people ignore it, anesthetize it, but we what we should do is address it. However, we must understand it first.
- The word for heart ache is grief
- Grief is deep sorrow that is felt as a response to loss
- Wherever there is loss, there is grief. Where there is grief there is a heart ache.
- Whenever you lose anything of value, your heart hurts
- Many don’t know when their heart is hurting
How is your heart?
- Things like grief go undetected
- John 11:35….say that “Jesus wept”
Grief is the price you pay for caring
- When you stop grieving, you stop caring
Weeping may endure for ta night, but joy comes in the morning
Are we ignoring what we should be addressing?
- When grief is not managed, it mutates into despair……we can’t lose hope
How do we stop grief from turning into despair?
3 things that David did in the middle of his loss, that we can do
- He wept
- His weeping was him honestly expressing his emotions
- Your willingness to weep is a revelation of your view of God
- You don’t have to hide emotions from God
- God says bring the problem to Him and have no shame…..Psalm 103:13-14
- Until God deals with your heartache, He can’t help you
- He can’t deliver us if we are in denial
- If we feel it, He can heal it
- Be honest with God, expose our emotions to a loving father who already knows
- He washed
- A symbol of cleansing oneself before going into the presence of God
- When you are grieving, you will say, do, think things that you wouldn’t normally
- Fear, anger, desire for revenge, etc….you have to wash off
- After you weep, you must wash because you weren’t called or created for it
- This is the day for it to “Get Off”
- Your heart becomes hard- wash
- Your attitude becomes cold- wash
- We become cynical, and don’t trust people- wash
- The devil wants to use things to hurt us so bad, so that we won’t help the thief
- What is on us, that we need to get off?
- He worshiped
- He went to the house of God and worshiped
- He couldn’t be mad at the only one who couldn’t fix what’s broke
- We can’t get made that something died and wasn’t spared, when we didn’t deserve it in the first place
- Celebrate that God let you have it to begin with
- Remember that He has been better to us, than we have been to ourselves
- The same God, who gave it to me, will give me another
- Worship until tears of sadness, turn into joy, weakness turns into strength, until we get our spiritual swag back
The area that the devil attacks the worse, God will use you the most
David consoled Bathsheba
- There is a Bathsheba that we should be helping/consoling during this difficult time