Today I’ll share with you 8 Bible Verses to Comfort the Brokenhearted and a prayer I myself prayed when I wondered if I’d ever be healed.
My brokenness kept me from truly experiencing life. Trauma had marked my heart with many scars and I looked on as others experienced joy, gave testimonies and talked about how Christ had changed them.
I felt so alone, like I was the only one who was broken inside; the only one who was struggling.
I smiled with my other sisters in Christ, as they celebrated, as they had joy, as they gave their testimonies and talked about how Christ had changed them. But inside I asked God, “What about me?”
I spent much time crying behind closed doors, wondering if I’d been forgotten, if I’d done something wrong and why I was suffering so. I felt angry, sad, fearful.
I struggled so much sometimes to simply get out of bed and get my day started. I struggled with any kind of social interaction because of the anxiety and fear.
I struggled to even sleep at all because the fear and terror of the things I’d experienced ran through my mind. I suffered with nightmares and just being afraid, the anxiety and the brokenness was always with me.
Would I ever come out of this darkness?
Would I ever experience the joy?
Would I ever testify to what God had done in my life?
Would I always be broken?
Would I always look on as other people received, except me?
Have you ever been in that place where it seems so dark that you can’t see any way out, that maybe God couldn’t even help you, or didn’t want to?
You Can come out of the Brokenness
Dear sister, I am here to tell you that you can come out of that darkness. God has not forgotten you. And I want to share with you some scriptures and prayers that brought comfort to my heart during that time where I was so steeped in brokenness, when I was so afraid that I would never come out of it.
Afraid I would always struggle and that maybe God had forgotten me.
I came out of that brokenness.
I came out step by step, little by little.
And these bible verses to comfort the brokenhearted and this prayer that I’m going to share with you is something that really comforted my heart during that time and helped me to not give up.
The scriptures I’m going to share are from the new king James version,
8 Bible Verses to Comfort the Brokenhearted
Psalm 34:18 The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart and save such as have a contrary spirit.
Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a contrite heart—
These, O God, You will not despise.
Psalm 147:3. He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.
Isaiah 61:1 The spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim Liberty, to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
Isaiah 61:3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
Isaiah 54:11 O you afflicted one,
Tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems,
And lay your foundations with sapphires.
Isaiah 54:14 In righteousness you shall be established;
You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear;
And from terror, for it shall not come near you.
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
And their righteousness is from Me,”
Says the LORD.
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A Sample Prayer
Thank you, Father God, that You are near to me because my heart is broken, that You save such as me, and that Lord, You do not despise my broken heart.
Thank you, Father that You heal my broken heart, that even this moment You are beginning to heal my broken heart, and I may not see it right away, but in the future, I will see the day is coming when I will be free from this bondage.
And I thank You, Father, that I do not have to fear because I will not be ashamed. I am not forgotten. I am not disgraced. You will establish me. You will lay my foundations of healing as I follow You; as I listen to You and follow Your leading and guidance in my life.
Lord, Your Word says that You are near to the broken. So, I pray that You would come near to me right now. I pray that You would comfort me with Your presence and that I would experience the healing that I so long for. In Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
What to Do with Them
So, you can look at these scriptures, speak them over yourself and pray that prayer whenever you need to,
Whenever the darkness is overwhelming,
Whenever you feel like you’ve been forgotten.
Whenever you wonder if you will ever get out of this, if you will ever heal, if you will ever experience true joy.
Look at these scriptures and pray this prayer and use that prayer as a beginning to your own prayer.
Can I pray for you today?
Father God, I pray for my sister in Christ, who has been wondering if You’ve forgotten her, who has been wondering if she would ever be healed.
And I pray right now this very moment that You would reach down with Your presence and that You would just touch her life, Father, touch her heart, comfort her heart. Speak to her heart.
Encourage her, help her to not give up, help her to not give in and just sit down and mourn instead of stepping forward.
Thank you, Father, that You will help her to take the next step, and the next, and the next.
Thank you, Father, that You’ll help her to walk out of the darkness and you will set the captives free. Thank you, Father, that You are the healer of the broken, that you are near to the broken hearted, that you do not despise the broken, but you are so near and compassionate.
And Lord, as my sister in Christ walks towards you and enters into this intimate relationship with You, receiving encouragement from Your Word, praying her heart to You, Lord, that You would answer.
And if there’s anything in her life that’s keeping her from hearing You, from truly experiencing an intimate relationship with You, I pray Father that You would come in and You would just remove those things by your Holy Spirit.
Lord, I thank You for working in my sister’s life, for giving her the freedom she so desires.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
