Prayers for Broken Hearts: 5 Prayers for Comfort and Healing
It’s not easy to know how to pray for a broken heart. Whether you are hurting or you want to pray for a loved one who is suffering, today we’ll explore five comforting prayers for broken hearts. My hope is that these prayers will offer healing and hope to those who are hurting today.
I invite you to join me in one of my favorite places, our backyard fire ring, and we’ll talk about how to pray for hurting hearts.
5 Comforting Prayers for Broken Hearts
Four charred logs rest haphazardly on the ashes. Wisps of smoke arise from the center of the heap. As I hunker down for a closer look, a fiery ember glows like a tiny beacon of hope buried in the rubble.
After blowing on the ember and feeding the flame with wispy grass and dried kindling, I warm myself by the flames and consider the mystery of hope from ashes.
I reflect on times when my hope ran out and I was left alone, staring at the ashes of my broken-down dreams.
Perhaps you can relate. Maybe your heart has been shattered into a million tiny pieces.
If this is you, let me encourage you today: God will use your brokenness to minister to others. First, he wants to heal your heart with his love.
God will use your brokenness to minister to others. First, he wants to heal your heart with his love. #healing #brokenness Click To TweetWe need his light to shine into our shattered hearts before we can radiate that love to the world around us.
If your heart is hurting today, here are five comforting prayers for broken hearts. As you pray these prayers, imagine God’s healing light shining into the cracks of your heart. He loves you and wants to help you navigate this painful time.
5 Comforting Prayers for Broken Hearts
1. Ask God to shine his healing light into your heart.
Here is a prayer to pray: “Father, shine your healing light into the cracks of my broken heart. I realize that I cannot heal myself. I also realize that time is not the great Healer; you alone are the great Healer. Thank you for hearing my prayer and sending your light and love to minister to me in this difficult time.”
2. Ask God to help you resist the spirit of offense.
Have you been blaming God for allowing this difficult time in your life?
It’s important to remember that God can work all painful situations for good purposes in our lives; however, he does not prowl around the earth trying to destroy our hopes and dreams. Destruction belongs to Satan, and God does not approve of his work.
Ask God to help you keep a soft and unoffended heart; offense is a primary barrier to healing.
Satan wants nothing more than for this loss to cause you to harden your heart and turn away from God. If this happens, Satan wins.
“Father, I pray that you will help me to keep a soft heart as I endure this time of sorrow. At times, I feel tempted to blame you for this pain or turn from you in offense. Lord, please help me to remain open to your tender love and protect me from the spirit of offense.”
3. Pray an honest prayer telling God how you feel. (He can take it.)
It’s important to pour our hearts out to God. As you walk through the grieving process, you will likely experience a wide array of emotions, including anger and even apathy toward God.
Talk to God about these emotions. God knows how you feel. Remember that you aren’t telling him for his sake; you are telling him so that you can find healing.
Here is a prayer you might pray: “Lord, I feel so many emotions. At times, I’m angry with you and feel tempted to turn away from you. I confess these attitudes and ask for your forgiveness. I also realize that I need to forgive you for allowing this to happen. Your actions never demand our forgiveness, but I pray this as a way of turning away from any blame I have been feeling toward you. Please forgive me. Please soften my heart. Help me to cling to you.”
2 More Prayers for Broken Hearts to Find Healing
4. Ask God to help you trust him.
Most likely, you don’t understand the painful circumstances around you. God is providing an opportunity for you to grow in trust.
Here is a prayer for greater trust: “Dear God, I don’t understand why you are allowing this pain in my life. Nevertheless, I realize that your ways are higher and better than my ways. I’m having a tough time trusting you with this situation. Please help me to turn to you and grow in trust as I walk through this with you.”
5. Ask God to help you find rest in his presence and comfort in his love.
In times of grief, most of us face the temptation to cope with our pain in unhealthy ways. Some of us escape into work and activity. Others escape into food, exercise, alcohol, drugs, or entertainment. We ignore our sadness or rush through it.
Meanwhile, God wants to be our source of strength and comfort in painful times.
Ask God to help you find your comfort in him by praying this prayer: “Lord God, thank you for your love for me. You have promised that those who turn to you will find rest. I fix my eyes upon you today. Please help me to find comfort in you during this time. Show me how to find this comfort in practical ways as you begin healing my heart.”
Apply These Prayers for Broken Hearts in the Following Ways:
After you have prayed, sit with your Bible and soak in his promises.
Let him send forth his Word and heal you, just as he promised.
Worship him in song.
Write in your journal.
Pour your heart out to him in prayer.
Ask him to show you what steps to take to move toward healing, and follow wherever you sense he is leading. He will make a way—one step at a time.
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