Jesus Binds Up the Brokenhearted

The Father's love is so great that He came through His Son, "For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." (Luke 19:10)  Many people mistranslate this as that He came to seek and save lost people but the verse says "...that which was lost." but I believe that through Christ Father had a much bigger plan to bring the reality of His Kingdom which is established in Heaven into being on the earth.  This absolutely includes people being saved who were lost but includes saving the family, cities, nations, and the world.  Father has been revealing to me recently His heart to save the brokenhearted in a very personal way.  It was said in an article by Janet Treadway that, "There can be many reasons why we are left with a broken heart:  the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job, loss of status, loss of health, betrayal by a friend, loss of a child, and yes loss of your childhood."  In Isaiah 61:1 it is listed as one of the conditions that the anointing came to restore, "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners;"  I have understood that Father has a heart for those who are broken hearted, I have seen people over the years who had been shattered by childhood abuse, loss, or extreme neglect in childhood (when they were developing their identity).  This became more of a reality and began to open up as a revelation because the Father gently unveiled my own broken heart.  I would say that for many years I have experienced an emotional and internal heart bleeding without an understanding of what was really happening inside.  If you have no clear view of the true problem it is impossible to treat.  I had received a prophetic word that God was "unlocking" my heart and another that said God was "enlarging my heart".  Another prophetic word said that God wanted me to be undone in His Presence.  I knew that I had emotional pain, like a tank inside that instead of being filled with love and joy was filled with pain.  It is fairly universal that all people fear the unknown at some level, it was fear that kept me from seeing what was truly going in my heart.  In the same article from Janet Treadway she says,  "Sometimes our heart is so broken that we can't even express the words and nothing seems to take the pain away."  I can attest to the last one especially, I had received lots of ministry, counsel, encouragement, and yet still was left with a pain tank in my heart nearly full.  Jack Frost once said that in order for love to flow in, the pain must flow out.  I can attest to this, that while I desperately wanted to experience Father's love I kept seeming to run into the pain and the fear that hid it away.  In Psalms 147:3 David attests to God's healing power, "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds."  Could it be true that there are many people who are walking around living in the reality of being broken hearted, without hope of being whole, and not even clearly understanding how deeply they have been wounded.    I was struck by Jesus affirmation of the Great Commandment in Matthew 22:37, "And He said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND."  When you are heart broken you cannot love the Lord with all your heart because your heart is shattered into pieces and the pieces of a broken heart must be reconciled (bind up) through encounters with Jesus.  The anointing of the Holy Spirit on Jesus as the Son was the power for Jesus to bring healing through binding up broken hearts.  So as sons and daughters of God through Christ, we have the same anointing and thus are empowered by the Holy Spirit to bind up those who have broken hearts.  Yet broken hearts are often hidden away due to the fear of being hurt again, they close up to protect themselves.  Amazing that Father knew that my heart needed to be unlocked to be healed and bound up.  There are more ministries and approaches today than ever in history before, I believe that Father is truly empowering and raising up His Body to do the work of Jesus by binding up the broken hearted.  In the Kingdom of God everything is seed, which when planted grows up into a big tree that bears good fruit.  As people on an individual level are experiencing Jesus binding up their broken hearts through ministers yielded to the leading and direction of the Holy Spirit, I wander if this is the seed for the heart of the Body of Christ to be healed.  Recently one of my co-workers was reading the book "Why We Eat Our Own?" which was an atheist comment to the author of why he did not want to become a Christian.  I believe this is the world testifying what we in the Body may not be able to see, the very heart of the Body of Christ has been broken.  As I have learned denial of a broken heart does not heal it and neither does protecting it by closing down.  Could it be that those in the Body of Christ who are brokenhearted have not be able to heal because the wider of culture of Christianity still eats our own and doesn't have the Father's value for the least among us (a Kingdom value Jesus often spoke of).  I know that in my life I haven't been able to function and flourish to my full potential "in Christ" I believe because of a broken heart.  We were created to love the Lord your God with all our heart, this is not simply a command but our very design for coming to full life.  Jesus said He came to bring life and life abundantly, could it be that this command is one of the keys to the abundant life.  Not only did Jesus affirm this commandment, He lived it out and fully loved the Father with His whole heart even unto death.  I believe the healing of broken hearts is much more important than the Body of Christ has seen it and has far greater implications in seeing the reality of the Kingdom of God manifest here on the earth they we have known.  Proverbs 4:23 points to the truth of how God sees the heart and it's importance in our life, "Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life."

With a heart being restored,
Bret