God will take your broken heart and He will heal it.
I saw a picture of my husband this week and he was sitting in the middle of an Eleanor
Mustang that he's restoring and the Holy Spirit just dropped a message in my heart
for you today based on the concept of restoration.
You know, we're all going through things in life.
We experience brokenness and it's a part of being human.
I want to read you some quotes.
This is good.
God will use broken things.
He takes broken soil to produce a crop.
Broken clouds to give rain.
Broken grain to give bread.
Bread will give us strength.
It's the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume.
It is Peter weeping bitterly who returns to greater power than ever.
And that's from Vance Havener.
God can heal your broken heart if you'll give Him all of the pieces.
And when you give God your broken heart, then that's when the restoration begins.
And He is an expert at restoration.
He will take things that are crushed and broken and bruised and He will make them whole again.
My family's gone through several deaths this year.
We had three deaths in four months and it's been heartbreaking.
And at times the grief just hits you in strange ways.
You know, you'll remember something or you'll pick up something and suddenly the heaviness
is there all over again.
But He is good and I've got some scriptures for you today.
Psalms 34, 18, the Lord is near to the brokenhearted and He saves the crushed in spirit.
Psalms 73, 26.
My heart and my flesh might fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion
forever.
He will be your strength when you don't have any strength anymore.
We all know this one because we quoted at funerals, yea, though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
For thou art with me, your rod, which is a symbol of authority, and your staff, what
He gives you to hold on to, they comfort me.
Psalms 145, 18, for the Lord is near to all who call on Him, all who call on Him in truth.
And that just means you're honest, you know, you have to give the broken pieces to Him.
You have to give it to Him and to allow Him to fix it.
And then when you finally, in your humility, let go of all of those broken pieces, that's
when He can come in and He can begin to restore.
Proverbs 16, 20, whoever gives heed to instruction prospers.
And blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord.
Trusting God is a process.
And learning to trust Him over time is a process.
I'm going to show you a video now, and this video is a shot of my husband working on an
Eleanor Mustang.
This is a specific movie that has popped up several times in movies.
And he's taking this muscle car that has been crushed and bruised and he is restoring
it back to what it was originally supposed to look like.
And I saw this picture, my husband's sitting on the inside of the body of this car and
he's working on all of the insides, on all the stuff that nobody ever sees.
The owner, the buyer, the body man, they're all going to look at the insides of this car,
just like our Father God looks at all the things inside our hearts.
He knows where we're crushed and bruised.
He knows where we're broken and devastated.
He knows where we've been hurt and we need to be restored.
And he will go in the inside and he will gently begin to take everything that is not
seen and what is seen and he will make it new.
We've got to walk around Eleanor here and show you all the bodywork that had to be done.
I still got to get up underneath there, it's just hard to get at.
This side of the car is the side I did.
There's a lot of stuff that's under primer that you can't see that I've already done.
I got mine done too.
Anyway it should be good and straight.
I'll be glad this thing's out of my life. It's nice to say you've done something like this, but it is tedious work.
That line that's on there, that's all by hand because it was all crushed in there and a big dent right through there.