Ps 147:3
3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. (KJV)

He not only heals our broken heart, he binds up our wounds. Think back over your life. How many heart wounds we have all had? But thank God that he comes through with a healing for our hearts so we can carry on for him and our families.

The pain all of you have felt in your lives is staggering. But think again. The Bible says Jesus was touched with the feeling of our infirmities.

Heb 4:15
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (KJV)

Infirmities, here, translates a Greek word that is a combination of two words. It combines the Greek negative with the word for strength. In the above verse it means the absence of strength. It means no strength at all.

In other words, when we have heart wounds to the breaking point, we are drained of strength. We are drained of the will to go on. This is a helpless, hopeless feeling. This is the meaning of the above expression, the feeling of our infirmities. It is a weakness we actually feel.

No matter what we must go through, Jesus has already “been there and done that.” He knows from personal experience our hurts, our wounds, our pains and our feelings of no strength to carry on.

Jesus has been tempted and/or tried in all the same points where we have been tempted and/or tried. He has felt what you have felt and has made it through. Consequently, he heals those of us who are broken in heart and then He binds up our wounds.

How good to know that Jesus understands us. How good to know that he can identify with us when we pain and grieve. He was indeed touched with the feeling of our infirmities. How good to know that we can identify with him in this.

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Some mistakes they will often make is assuming the person they are talking to is weak like them or has had such a miserable and pathetic life like they have? Or that the person they are trying to convert has an addiction problem of some type?

Personally having been witnessed too about once a week while minding my own business, someone just has to come tell me about their God and their life story of how they found God and it changed their life. That is great, yet what they so often do is start telling me how they were abused as a child, were an alcoholic, did drugs, had a divorce or did some other hideous thing to another. What always turns me off is that I have no sympathy for losers and I am glad they found their invisible friend to help them cope.

Surely being psychotic, schizophrenic or having an invisible friend does not impress me, it scares me and considering these pathetic, loser and addiction issues, I do not wish to have them as friends or to be involved in anything they are. I am totally turned off. So if you go around preaching to people, telling them of your pathetic past or your invisible friend be careful how you do it. It is a huge turn off and you make yourself look like a complete fool, lacking personal character and are often perceived as a mental case. Think on this and keep your religion to yourself.

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