These are a collection of my favorite Bible verses about a broken heart that can help ease the pain and burden you’re feeling now. The Lord God heals broken hearts if we let him remove this pain from us.
“When my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” Psalm 61:2.
Prayers
Verses
Psalms 34:18
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
If you’re wondering how God can mend a broken heart after a broken relationship or if you’re here today with a shattered heart, you’ve come to the right place.
It’s essential to remember that only God has the power to mend a damaged heart. You may have heard the saying “time heals all wounds,” but this is only partly true. Even if a broken heart does eventually mend, God is the one who makes it possible. For genuine peace and healing, one must rely on God. The greatest approach to relying on God in these trying times is to turn to him in prayer.
Recognize your need for Him. Request that the Lord mend your wounded heart. Ask Him for help in moving forward from the failed relationship.
Psalms 51:17
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.
Grief is both a feeling and an action. It’s okay to cry when your heart is broken. It’s acceptable to feel worn out. You are not required to prevent it.
Scripture acknowledges the value of mourning. God cried without apologizing for it. God does not have dry cheeks when His heart is aching, and you shouldn’t feel guilty if you don’t either.
Christians are not just those who weep; they are those who weep properly. It is not enough to just let our emotions out; they need to be nurtured. It’s important to combine hope with our emotions.
Psalm 73:26
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Grief calls for prayer. It is our souls’ connection with their Creator and Sustainer. When we pray, we aren’t trying to change God’s mind; rather, we are giving Him our deepest aspirations and relying on His stewardship, even when they aren’t fulfilled.
In His hour of great need, Christ cries out in prayer. Something about praying, about expressing to our Lord our deepest thoughts and emotions, makes our hearts more open to the comfort that only the gospel can offer. God adores hearing the sincere, genuine prayers of His children.
Our prayers and hearts will benefit when we feed from God’s word through difficult times.
Psalm 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Grief may be draining. We find ourselves emotionally and physically exhausted. At moments like this, it can be difficult to breathe at all as an awful and persistent fog seems to envelop our minds and bodies. Rest is necessary for those who are grieving. We need rest in our spirits as much as in our bodies.
Resting in Jesus often means purposefully stepping away from the chaos of the outside world. Making the decision to channel what little emotional energy we do have toward the goals of God’s kingdom, bringing about a peace that reason alone cannot explain.
Do not grieve by yourself. Grief is not a private matter. God loves His children too much for them to keep all their pain to themselves. To uphold the command of Christ, bear one another’s burden.
Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
In your moment of need, allowing people to walk with you is a way to serve them while simultaneously allowing them to serve you. Satan uses our sorrow to help satisfy our desire to withdraw, both individually and collectively. It just seems like too much of a chore to manage to gather for worship.
It may be challenging for us to sing, pray, or focus during worship when we are grieving. The Lord’s Supper could appear to be an empty ritual. But when everything else seems to be failing, worship acts as a sort of spiritual ventilator, keeping us alive. Worship is easing our sadness and nourishing our spirits back to health, even when we don’t realize it.
Psalm 34:18
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Dear Jesus, I come to you today asking for your healing touch. I know that You are the healer of all things and the Great Physician.
You want us to turn to you with our burdens because through them we find hope. I am coming before you right now, brokenhearted and broken over the sadness in my life…
Please Jesus heal me.
Heal me, Jesus. Heal me, Jesus. Heal me, Jesus. I need your touch here and now to make all things whole again.
Amen.
Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
Luke 12:2
Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Psalm 56:8
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Psalms 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Corinthians 5:7
For we live by faith, not by sight.
Psalm 103:3
Who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
Proverbs 13:24
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
James 4:17
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
Psalm 91:1
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Timothy 3:5
Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Corinthians 13:7
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
Lamentations 3:22
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;
John 8:32
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Chronicles 12:14
And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.
Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
Psalm 119:11
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Proverbs 4:23
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Peter 4:19
Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
Psalm 55:22
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Corinthians 4:9
Persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
Proverbs 12:26
One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Titus 1:2
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Luke 18:1
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
Psalm 53:2
God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
John 14:13
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 6:37
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
Romans 5:13
For sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Psalms 55:22
Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.
Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Psalm 107:20
He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Psalm 46:5
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.
Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice;
Romans 10:17
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
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