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💔•—• Prayer When Love Has Failed •—• 💔By Anthony Valente👉 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. (Psalm 34:18)Living is sometimes painful. Loving? Even more so. Sure, lots of our busy days are full of peace, joy, and togetherness; but pain is part of the package. It’s promised to us in the Bible.As Christians who count on a great and loving God, pain comes as a wake-up call to consider it pure joy (James 1:2) and be certain of what we cannot see (Hebrews 11:1). If not for faith—even when it feels tiny as a mustard seed—that God works it all for good (Romans 8:28), getting your heart broken could devastate the strongest of souls.Heartbreak can happen in many ways.… betrayal, deceit, rejection, attack, or loss of something or someone you love so dearly. By virtue of the vulnerability with which we love—hearts get broken. And yet this truth remains:The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. — Psalm 34:18Very close. Been in your shoes, in fact. God didn’t want your heart broken, and he will most assuredly surround you with his everlasting love as you wrestle through it. He is mighty and able to use even grief to refine you and accomplish his great purposes.Scripture is full of promises for your broken heart. What’s interesting is that we get to see our body heal from cuts, but how a broken heart heals is a mystery. How long it will take, and what the healing will look like, is different for every person, and every situation.The best any of us can offer is faith that as we pray, God ministers the balm of his mercy and presence. We can hope that he will replace mourning with dancing (Psalm 30:11) in his perfect timing.So what do you say to someone whose heart is breaking? How do you pray for someone with a broken heart? How do you pray for your own healing?Whether your heart is broken, or someone you love is struggling, here is a prayer for a broken heart.Let us pray.🙏 Dear Lord Jesus,I have been hurt very deeply by someone who I thought truly loved me, and we wanted to spend our lives together, but they have caused me deep pain and left my emotions in tatters. Lord, at times I have felt that my heart would break and have been finding it very difficult to come to terms with the fact that love has failed. Restore my brokenness I pray, and send Your comfort and strength into my soul, as I try to pick up the pieces of my brokenness and begin to face the future once again. Lord, I know that I cannot do this in my own strength, but only as You carry me in Your loving arms and pour Your healing and comfort into my broken soul. Help me to leave this disappointing time of sadness behind and look to a future with fresh hope and expectation, knowing that in You is the fullness of joy and from You alone comes the only true love that can fully satisfy the heart that is hungry for love. I pray that I may allow the healing process of Your love to begin to mend my brokenness, so that in Your time and in Your way You would bring the person of Your choice into my life, for You are the Lord of Love, and have given us the capacity to love others and to be loved by them. Help me to pray, "Thy will be done," in this area of my life and teach me how to love You as I ought, and give me the capacity to love others in the same way that You have loved me. Father — thank You for Your promise to bind up my brokenness and heal my hurt. May I walk humbly before You, trusting Your many precious promises knowing that You are able to carry me through any and every situation that life may throw at me. I need You Lord. I love You Lord.In Jesus' Name I Pray,AMEN 🙏 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.(Isaiah 43:18-19)You have allowed me to suffer much hardship, but you will restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth.(Psalm 71:20)He will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death, no more grief or crying or pain. The old things have disappeared." (Revelation 21:4)“For His anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.”(Psalm 30:5)For we walk by faith, not by sight.(2 Corinthians 5:7)Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.(Psalm 55:22)My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.(Psalm 73:26)“And we know that all things work together for good for those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”(Romans 8:28)“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”(Matthew 11:28)“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed, perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.”(2 Corinthians 4:8-10)Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.(1 Corinthians 13:7)“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you; I will uphold you with my righteous hand.”(Isaiah 41:10)“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give it to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."(John 14:27)I can do all things through him who strengthens me.(Philippians 4:13)Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.(Psalm 37:4)"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’”(Jeremiah 29:11)That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.(2 Corinthians 12:10)Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.(Proverbs 3:5-6)“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."(Philippians 4:6-7)Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. (1 Peter 5:7)"Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.(Mark 11:23)My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. (Psalm 51:17)“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.(Isaiah 1:18)He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds.(Psalm 147:3)You, LORD, are all I have, and you give me all I need; my future is in your hands. How wonderful are your gifts to me; how good they are! I praise the LORD, because he guides me, and in the night my conscience warns me. I am always aware of the LORD's presence; he is near, and nothing can shake me. And so I am thankful and glad, and I feel completely secure, because you protect me from the power of death. I have served you faithfully, and you will not abandon me to the world of the dead. You will show me the path that leads to life; your presence fills me with joy and brings me pleasure forever.(Psalm 16:5-11)Even if my father and mother abandon me, the LORD will hold me close.(Psalm 27:10)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.(2 Corinthians 1:3-4)For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.(2 Corinthians 11:2)(pic verse)Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.(Psalm 126:5-6)