HE HEALS THE BROKENHEARTED: PASTOR MENSA OTABIL – SUNDAY SERVICE, 13TH JUNE, 2021
SUNDAY SERVICE BY DR. MENSAH OTABIL (GENERAL OVERSEER INTERNATIONAL CENTRAL GOSPEL CHURCH (ICGC) ACCRA, GHANA)
TOPIC: HE HEALS THE BROKENHEARTED
DATE: 13TH JUNE, 2021
TEXT: LUKE 4:16-21
Amen! Let’s rise up together, as we make our DECLARATION OF FRUITFULNESS in this Year of Fruitfulness:
Are you ready? Say with me:
The Eternal God is our Refuge. He opens Rivers in desolate Heights.The Lord makes the wilderness a Pool of water.
The LORD God is my Sun and Shield; The LORD gives Grace and Glory.
Therefore, I delight myself in Him. Those who are Planted in the House of the LORD shall be fresh and flourishing.
Though the Earth be shaken; the Name of the Lord is my Strong Tower. By Faith I affirm that: In Christ alone is my Salvation. In Him I live, and move and have my being.
It is written: The Righteous are like trees Planted by the waters; bearing fruits in its Season.
So I boldly declare: As for me, my God has made me EXCEEDINGLY FRUITFUL.
In this Season, my Spirit bears Fruits of Righteousness, my Talents make Way for me. With my hands, I will Plant, I will Build, I will Harvest – Day by Day, Step by Step.
In Jesus’ Name – Amen!
My Message today is Titled: HE HEALS THE BROKENHEARTED.
If you feel broken hearted again and again, or from this moment: today, I believe God’s Healing Power would touch you and God would bring Health to you by the Holy Spirit – Amen!
My Text is picked from Luke Gospel Chapter 4:16-21; but I will be focusing on verse 18; where my Message is from.
But I will read Luke 4:16-21 (NKJV):
16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
17 And He was handed the Book of the Prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the Place where it was written:
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To Preach the Gospel to the Poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To Proclaim liberty to the Captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at Liberty those who are Oppressed;
19 To Proclaim the Acceptable Year of the Lord.”
20 Then He closed the Book, and gave it back to the Attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the Synagogue were fixed on Him.
21 And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” Amen!
… This is Jesus reading His Mission Statement.
He is talking about what His Ministry is all about. And if you look at it, He identifies different Groups that His Ministry is targeted to – He talks about the Poor, He talks about the Brokenhearted, he talks about the Blind, the Captives, the Oppressed.
… These are not exhaustive Group.
But He is talking about People who are Negatively impacted by Life; whom He had come to help and to rescue and to deliver and set Free.
And today, I want to focus on the Second (2nd) Area of need that the Lord mentioned – THE BROKENHEARTED.
Jesus announced that Part of His Mission is: TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED.
And, if you know your Scriptures very well, you will know that the Statement Jesus Christ made is in the Book of Isaiah.
Isaiah was the one who Prophesied it the first (1st) time regarding the Messiah. And Jesus came, Picked up those Scriptures and said, they are fulfilled!
So, whatever Isaiah Promised in Isaiah 61:1-3, Jesus came to fulfil it – He came to Heal the Brokenhearted.
If you read this Passage (Luke 4:18) in almost all English Translations of the Bible; you know there are several English Translations of the Bible. And they don’t always use the same words for everything.
But I checked most of the English Translations of the Bible, and in this Particular instance, almost all of them used the word ‘Brokenhearted.’
It is in King James, the New King James, NIV – All of them just talked about the Brokenhearted. Even the more generous Message Bible uses the work ‘Heartbroken.’
So, there is unanimity from all the Translations of the Bible that Jesus came to Minister to the Brokenhearted.
If you are Brokenhearted this morning – There is Deliverance for you, there is Healing for you and there is Help for you – Amen.
… Somebody say: I RECEIVE IT!
As I normally do, I try to define the words I’m using, so that we are on the same Page and understand where we are going.
So, let’s break down the word, BROKENHEARTED as it is used in Luke 4:18.
The first (1st) word is the word ‘BROKEN.’
And as we know, the Bible is written both in Hebrew and in Greek – The Old Testament is in Hebrew, the New Testament is in Greek.
Since this word is lifted from the Old Testament and spoken in the New Testament, it is rendered both in the Hebrew and in the Greek.
In the Hebrew, the word that is translated as ‘BROKEN’ means to be Shattered or Smashed.
The idea is of something that is forcefully hit against a hard Object – It is like the way you take a glass or an egg and shatter it on the Ground.
… So, that’s how the word in Hebrew mean: Something that is shattered or smashed.
The Greek word is similar to it, but it has a different nouance to it. And it means: to grind, to crush, or to destroy.
The idea is similar to rubbing stones together till they all turn Powdery.
… So you just get crushed, rubbed together and you disintegrated and it all goes out of your mouth.
So, both are talking about BROKEN in different ways – One says it is to Shatter, the other says it is to Crush.
What about the word ‘HEART?’
The word ‘HEART’ means our Inner Self – Your Inner Self, your Real Core Being.
The word ‘HEART’ is also used to mean our Passion and Energy.
And the word ‘HEART’ also means our Will and Thoughts.
The HEART is our Inner Self, our Passion and Energy; and also our Will and Thoughts.
So if you put the two (2) words together – BROKENHEARTED; It is when things happen to us to Shatter and Crush us from within.
I don’t know whether that had ever happened to you? But when a Person gets Brokenhearted; inside them, in their Inner Self, in their Energy, in their Passion and Thoughts, they feel shattered and crushed.
And when that happens, normally, we lose our appetite for Life; and invariably, it leads to despondency and depression.
… Very terrible conditions can come from being Brokenhearted!
We can be Brokenhearted Spiritually, Psychologically, and Physically. In fact, in Medicine, there is something called: ‘The Brokenhearted Syndrome:’ where People literally get Brokenhearted.
And it is Physiological; it is not just Psychological.
So, we can be Brokenhearted Spiritually, Physically and Psychologically. Mentally, we can be Brokenhearted.
Many things can break out hearts; and I don’t know whether you have ever felt Brokenhearted.
Most of us carry a brokenheart and we seems to be functioning normally. But something is broken inside of us; something is crushed inside of us; something just hit us and we just can’t seems to recover from it.
It’s almost as if somebody just took you and hit you against a rock. Or life has been rubbing you and squeezing you, till everything is coming out of you.
… That’s what a Brokenheart is!
And Brokenheart can come from many Sources:
I. The one we are familiar with is when we suffer Loss – A Loss of a Loved One!
Anytime we suffer loss, we are likely to be Brokenhearted. And the loss can come from a tragedy: the loss of a Life in death, or it can come from breakup of a Relationship – Somebody you love leaves you and your Life feels empty!
Because the Person fills so much of your heart (of your Life) and they just leave you and there is an emptiness you have.
So a loss of a Loved One can cause Brokenheartedness.
II. And then, Disappointments and Discouragements can cause Brokenheartedness.
When we have an expectation that something would be done and it never gets done! And then our heart is wounded.
III. Or Betrayal of a Trusted Friend.
Each one of us has had brokwnhearts at some Points in our lives – Somebody you thought loved you gossips behind you; Somebody you thought loved you (had your back) went behind your back sold you to Somebody else, and didn’t defend you.
And so, when People betrays us, we feel Brokenhearted.
IV. Or sometimes it come from a Frightening Medical Diagnosis.
The Doctors tell you something really terrible about your Health, and you just feel Brokenhearted and you fall in despair.
V. Or you lose a job or you lose Financial Security.
… It could cause Brokenheartedness.
So, there are different ways in which People get Brokenhearted. But ultimately, Satan is behind all Brokenheartedness.
… He is the one who seeks to crush us and grind us – “The thief comes to steal, to kill and to destroy.”
In Psalms 69:20, A man just like us; a man called David – Passionately likes the Lord. But also goes through all of Life’s Challenges.
In Psalms 68:20, David talks about Brokenheartedness.
And this is how he describes his condition – He says:
Reproach has broken my heart, And I am full of heaviness; I looked for Someone to take Pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
David talks about how he felt when he was Brokenhearted – And if you listened to him carefully must of us can identify with how David felt.
There are Three (3) Things I want you to note, that David is talking about:
He talks about REPROACH, he talks about HEAVINESS and he talks about LONELINESS.
And from David we learn that when we are Brokenhearted, we have a feeling that something is broken within us – You just feel like something is is not right; something is not correct, something is broken.
… Something which used to be Strong has been broken.
- David said Reproaches has broken his heart.
Reproaches can come in shame, in attacks, in all kinds of thing that come into our lives. And David said they broke his heart.
I don’t know what has broken your heart; it could be Reproaches, it could be a Loss, it could be disappointment, it could be betrayal, it could be a News you have heard that has really broken your heart but David says, something feels broken within him.
- Secondly, from David we learn that brokenheartedness is a Deep Sadness and Frequent crying.
David said he was full of heaviness – It’s almost as if there is a Cloud that has settled on your heart. And the cloud is not moving!
You know, many times darkness clouds – They come, they offload the rain and they move on. But there are certain clouds that settle on our hearts and they don’t seems to move on.
So, the Cloud is settled! Its darkness is heavy and it’s Pouring water, and it’s raining and raining. And it never lets go! It’s almost like having a Year long Rainy Season or three (3) to five (5) Years Rainy Season.
… Crying in tears and heaviness and never feeling light!
And David is saying, I am full of heaviness.
When we go through Brokenheartedness, there is this sense of deep sadness, and we just can’t turn off the water; we just keep crying.
- And then David talks about something else he felt when he was Brokenhearted: A feeling of ISOLATION and ABANDONMENT.
He said, I looked for Help and there was no one to Help me; I looked for comfort, and I found none; somebody to take Pity and there was none.
When you are Brokenhearted, it just seems as if nobody can Help you! Even People with Good intentions just can’t Help you. People who sit by you and hope to encourage you, just can’t Help you because, there is Nobody to Help us.
Now, that makes it difficult when there is Nobody to Help you. Your friends can’t Help you, even your Pastor can’t Help you.
SO WHERE DO YOU GO FOR HELP?
… Government definitely can’t help you!
That’s where Jesus comes in! He says that’s His job.
On this first (1st) day of His job – when He is entering His Ministry. This is what Jesus announced.
He said: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me To Preach the Gospel to the Poor; He has sent Me to heal the Brokenhearted,”
I came to announce that there is a HEALER in the house and His Name is JESUS CHRIST.
And if no one can Help you; and there is heaviness and the heaviness is not getting off; JESUS CHRIST is the Healer of the Brokenhearted – Amen.
He can repair whatever has been broken or lost.
Proverbs 18:14 says: The Spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, But who can bear a Broken Spirit?
When a Person is broken, it almost seems like nothing can Help them again. Nothing can restore them.
Psalms 147:2-3 – And this is what it says:
The Lord builds up Jerusalem;
He gathers together the Outcasts of Israel. He heals the Brokenhearted
And binds up their wounds.
Three (3) Things I want you to note:
I. First (1st) is that the Lord BUILDS:
He can put the things that had been torn down up again. He can put up everything that had been Pulled down.
If you feel that something had been Pulled down in your Life, God can build it again because, He is the Healer.
II. The Second (2nd) thing the Psalmist says is that the Lord GATHERS:
… He can reassemble the things that have been scattered in our lives.
Do you feel as if something has been scattered in your Life? It’s almost as if a whirlwind came and blew away everything you have gathered; everything you have put together, everything you have assembled.
Sometimes, it is Love that you thought was Strong; you have built this relationship. This Persons love you with all their hearts. You love them with all your heart. And you think: Oh, we have a Solid Relationship. This Relationship will last forever.
And then, there is Unfaithfulness; there is Infidelity. And your heart is just broken. And you wonder: Can I ever be rebuilt? God is able to rebuild you – Amen!
Or maybe you feel that you have worked so hard to gather – You have gathered so much! And then something comes and scatters it. Your heart is broken. And you wonder: can I ever recoup what was scattered?
… The Lord gathers!
III. And the Third (3rd) thing we see here is that the Lord HEALS:
“… He binds up the things that were broken.”
If you feel broken, God will binds you.
And this morning, there is Healing for you, there is Help for you, there is Deliverance for you. Because Jesus says: “That is what I specialize in.”
That is what He came to do for us – He came to Heal the Brokenhearted.
We used to Sing a Song way back in the day:
MY GOD IS ABLE, HE’S ABLE,
I KNOW HE IS ABLE,
I KNOW MY GOD IS ABLE TO CARRY YOU THROUGH;
FOR HE HEALS THE BROKENHEARTED,
SETS THE CAPTIVES FREE;
RAISE THE DEAD, HEALS THE LAME AND WALKS UPON THE SEA.
MY GOD IS ABLE, HE’S ABLE,
I KNOW HE IS ABLE,
I KNOW MY GOD IS ABLE TO CARRY YOU THROUGH;
That God will carry you through! He heals the Brokenhearted, He sets the Captives free. He is able to heal Evey Brokenhearted.
Somebody say: I RECEIVE HEALING!
So, I don’t know the heaviness in your heart this morning; wherever you are now or reading this Message on the Label of DMC and you are wondering: Will this heaviness ever leave me? – It is leaving now! Not because of of me, but because of the Man Who read His Manifesto over 2,000 years ago. And said this is my Mission: “I have come to HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED.
No matter the Source of the Broken heart; whether it’s a loss or a disappointment; whether it’s something that has been scattered; whether it’s a News you have heard, that has broken your heart – HE HEALS THE BROKENHEARTED!
SO, WHAT DOES HE DO?
We go back to the same Isaiah who talked about the Healing of the Brokenhearted.
Isaiah 53:4-5; talking about the Ministry of the Messiah, it says:
Surely He has borne our griefs. And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our Transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our Peace was upon Him, And by His Stripes we are healed.
… This is the Redemptive Ministry of Jesus Christ.
And when we come to Him for Healing, we have to acknowledge that Jesus Christ carried our sorrows and our chastisement.
“… He has borne oursorrows and carried our sorrows… The chastisement for our peace was upon Him.”
When we receive Salvation to be Born Again; we receive Salvation by acknowledging that Jesus has carried our sins. That when He was Crucified on the Cross, He took our sins upon Himself.
And that is why our sins can be forgiven; and the burden of sin can be removed. But that is not all Jesus came to do!
He didn’t only carry our sins, but He also carried our sorrows. He carried our griefs, He carried our chastisement so that there will be Peace in our hearts.
So, just as we receive Him as the Saviour out of our sins; we also have to receive Him as the Deliverer from our griefs.
The same Jesus, who takes away our sins, also takes away our sorrows.
“Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; …The chastisement for our Peace was upon Him.”
Jesus’ heart was broken so that your heart would not be broken. He carried our Brokenheartedness when He died.
He Pierced His side – Blood and water came out. His heart was broken so that ours would be repaired.
So, if you feel Brokenhearted in anyway, by whatever means: Jesus Christ has carried your grief, He has carried your sorrow, He has carried your chastisement, He has carried your disappointment, He has carried your betrayal, He has carried your denial, He has carried that feeling of heaviness.
A crown of thorns was out upon His head. The heaviness is upon Him so that the Glory and the Joy of the Lord would be your Portion.
And this morning, you can receive Freedom, because Jesus Christ carried your sorrows. That disappointment is not going to live with you forever.
Today, you are being Freed – Amen.
Yes, they left your Life, but God never left your Life. God is still with you. And Jesus carried our griefs.
Say aloud: “Lord, You have carried my Pain, and my grief. Lord, You have carried my chastisement. And I receive Healing for my Brokenheartedness – Amen.”
… He carried it! He carried our sins, He carried our griefs.
Listen to me: Many things are going to break your heart. People you trust will disappoint you. You will loose things. It’s Part of the falling world. Our world is not Perfect, it’s falling. Bad things are happening.
But as Christians, we also know that there is coming a time when God will give us a Brand New world – Where there is no sorrow and there is no tears.
But before we get there, here and now, He still gives us a foretaste of Glory Divine. He is able to take away every Brokenheartedness.
AND HOW DOES THE LORD DO IT?
Three (3) Ways that Jesus Heals us from Brokenheartedness:
- He sends His Word to heal us.
How is He going to heal us? He is going to send His Word to heal us.
I believe this morning, He has sent me to send His Word to heal you.
That’s why, of all the Messages I could Preach, this is the one He told me Preach.
Why? – Because God is sending His Word to you to say: My son, my daughter, my child, know how you feel. And I am your Healer. I understand what you are going through, and I will restore you!
Don’t despise the Word He sends to you; because He sends His Word to Heal us.
- He Touches us with His Holy Spirit.
Today, the Holy Spirit is dissolving every heaviness in your heart. Recieve the Ministry of the Holy Spirit – Amen!
And I command every heaviness, every darkness that has settled on your heart to move away – Amen!
Let the rain Clouds move; let the Sunshine come in; let a Brand New Day begin in your life – Amen.
… The Holy Spirit is the One who moves away the heaviness from our heart.
- And the Lord Heals our Brokenheartedness when He Folks us with His Joy and Gladness.
I can now Sing this SONG:
I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW,
THE RAIN IS GOING,
THE DARK CLOUDS HAVE LEFT ON THEIR OWN.
May God cause a New Joy to come into your heart – Amen.
You will just be there and bubbling with the Joy of the Lord; with Gladness, smiling wholeheartedly. Not smiling from the Lions, but smiling from your stomach. Smiling from deep within you. The Joy of the Lord, the freedom of Laughter.
May the Lord fill your mouth with laughter – Amen! May He fill you with true Joy – Amen.
Not just because you forgot all that has happened, but he has replaced what had happened with His Not, with His Gladness, with His Healing.
The Joy of the Lord is your Strength!
This morning, I believe God is bringing Healing to many People. And if you feel Brokenhearted in anyway, I just want you wherever you are now or reading this Message on the Label of DMC (you just feel Brokenhearted in anyway) just Stand u Up!
… Definitely, if you are driving, don’t Stand. You can Park your car and Probably Stand Up.
If you know somebody who is Brokenhearted, you can Stand for that Person: A Loved one, a friend, a Parent, a brother, a sister, a Church Member, a Colleague in the office – Who is just going through deep Pain and they just can’t seems to get over it.
Lift up your hands to God and receive Healing – Amen!
CLOSING PRAYER
Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ, our Healer, who declared over 2,000 Years ago that He brings Healing to the Brokenhearted.
I speak Healing in His Name to everyone whose hands are lifted up. And I speak in the Name of Jesus;
That every Spirit of Heaviness be broken from your life!
The Clouds of Anxiety and Worry; Hopelessness and Despair be lifted from your heart.
May the Lord lift the heaviness from your heart!
And I Pray that the Holy Spirit would touch you wherever you are; and touch you with the Supernatural Power of God and Restore your Soul.
And may the Joy of the Lord rest upon you!
May the Lord touch you with His Joy; May the Lord touch you with His Glory; May the Lord touch you with His Power.
And I Pray that everything that has rested in you be lifted from you!
Recieve Healing right now (repeated)! Healing for your Soul, Healing for your heart, Healing for your emotions.
Healing from your Being, Healing in your Inner Self, receive it now, in the Name of Jesus!
The Disappointment is rolling away; The Pain is rolling away; The Despair is rolling away!
I see Joy coming in, I see the Glory of God flooding your heart. The Lord is filling your heart with His Presence and with His Peace which Passes all understanding.
In Jesus’ Name – Amen and AMEN.
If you believe God has touched you, why don’t you Celebrate the Lord and give Him Praise.
And Thank Him for the Healing, for the Restoration, for the Joy that He brings to us.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name – AMEN!!!
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