WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:17.960 God will take your broken heart and He will heal it. 2 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:23.960 I saw a picture of my husband this week and he was sitting in the middle of an Eleanor 3 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:30.360 Mustang that he's restoring and the Holy Spirit just dropped a message in my heart 4 00:00:30.360 --> 00:00:34.700 for you today based on the concept of restoration. 5 00:00:34.700 --> 00:00:38.240 You know, we're all going through things in life. 6 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:43.200 We experience brokenness and it's a part of being human. 7 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:44.800 I want to read you some quotes. 8 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:45.800 This is good. 9 00:00:45.800 --> 00:00:48.880 God will use broken things. 10 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:53.320 He takes broken soil to produce a crop. 11 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:56.040 Broken clouds to give rain. 12 00:00:56.040 --> 00:01:00.560 Broken grain to give bread. 13 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:02.920 Bread will give us strength. 14 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:08.400 It's the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. 15 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:17.040 It is Peter weeping bitterly who returns to greater power than ever. 16 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:19.440 And that's from Vance Havener. 17 00:01:19.440 --> 00:01:24.680 God can heal your broken heart if you'll give Him all of the pieces. 18 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:34.480 And when you give God your broken heart, then that's when the restoration begins. 19 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:37.440 And He is an expert at restoration. 20 00:01:37.440 --> 00:01:43.040 He will take things that are crushed and broken and bruised and He will make them whole again. 21 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:46.200 My family's gone through several deaths this year. 22 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:51.560 We had three deaths in four months and it's been heartbreaking. 23 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:55.520 And at times the grief just hits you in strange ways. 24 00:01:55.520 --> 00:02:01.600 You know, you'll remember something or you'll pick up something and suddenly the heaviness 25 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:04.000 is there all over again. 26 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.080 But He is good and I've got some scriptures for you today. 27 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:14.800 Psalms 34, 18, the Lord is near to the brokenhearted and He saves the crushed in spirit. 28 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:17.160 Psalms 73, 26. 29 00:02:17.160 --> 00:02:25.480 My heart and my flesh might fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion 30 00:02:25.480 --> 00:02:27.680 forever. 31 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:33.880 He will be your strength when you don't have any strength anymore. 32 00:02:33.880 --> 00:02:37.840 We all know this one because we quoted at funerals, yea, though I walk through the valley 33 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:41.080 of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. 34 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:46.960 For thou art with me, your rod, which is a symbol of authority, and your staff, what 35 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:51.840 He gives you to hold on to, they comfort me. 36 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:59.960 Psalms 145, 18, for the Lord is near to all who call on Him, all who call on Him in truth. 37 00:02:59.960 --> 00:03:08.120 And that just means you're honest, you know, you have to give the broken pieces to Him. 38 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:12.720 You have to give it to Him and to allow Him to fix it. 39 00:03:12.720 --> 00:03:19.440 And then when you finally, in your humility, let go of all of those broken pieces, that's 40 00:03:19.440 --> 00:03:25.480 when He can come in and He can begin to restore. 41 00:03:25.480 --> 00:03:30.800 Proverbs 16, 20, whoever gives heed to instruction prospers. 42 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:35.160 And blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord. 43 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:38.760 Trusting God is a process. 44 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:40.920 And learning to trust Him over time is a process. 45 00:03:40.920 --> 00:03:49.000 I'm going to show you a video now, and this video is a shot of my husband working on an 46 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:50.720 Eleanor Mustang. 47 00:03:50.720 --> 00:03:56.000 This is a specific movie that has popped up several times in movies. 48 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:05.000 And he's taking this muscle car that has been crushed and bruised and he is restoring 49 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.760 it back to what it was originally supposed to look like. 50 00:04:09.760 --> 00:04:15.200 And I saw this picture, my husband's sitting on the inside of the body of this car and 51 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:20.800 he's working on all of the insides, on all the stuff that nobody ever sees. 52 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:27.880 The owner, the buyer, the body man, they're all going to look at the insides of this car, 53 00:04:27.880 --> 00:04:32.600 just like our Father God looks at all the things inside our hearts. 54 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:34.560 He knows where we're crushed and bruised. 55 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:37.440 He knows where we're broken and devastated. 56 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:42.060 He knows where we've been hurt and we need to be restored. 57 00:04:42.060 --> 00:04:51.940 And he will go in the inside and he will gently begin to take everything that is not 58 00:04:51.940 --> 00:04:57.940 seen and what is seen and he will make it new. 59 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:16.280 We've got to walk around Eleanor here and show you all the bodywork that had to be done. 60 00:05:16.280 --> 00:05:25.200 I still got to get up underneath there, it's just hard to get at. 61 00:05:25.200 --> 00:05:29.840 This side of the car is the side I did. 62 00:05:29.840 --> 00:05:49.040 There's a lot of stuff that's under primer that you can't see that I've already done. 63 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:52.840 I got mine done too. 64 00:05:52.840 --> 00:05:55.720 Anyway it should be good and straight. 65 00:05:55.720 --> 00:06:05.720 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. 66 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:18.720 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.