The Blessing of Brokenness

Blessed Brokenness- After yesterday's word I pray that you allowed yourself to be broken so that God could fix you. In today's word Dr. Evan's refers to restoring furniture and being broken can definitely be liken to that. To restore something old means that when you are finished you get something new. This is confirmation. You see there plenty of mornings that God wakes me up at 3am I know it's to pray, if He wakes me up at 6am I know it's to pray those are prayer times. This morning the enemy tried to wake me up at 4:30 with a horrible headache but not only did I get medicine I got  a WORD from on HIGH to go with this word. You see when you are restoring stuff it requires shifting some pieces, cutting out some scratched parts, some dented parts. SO let's say God is restoring you, He needs to break you all the way down, He needs to cut out sin, hatred, unforgiveness, strife, pettiness. He needs smooth out the rough places, He needs to replace somethings that fell off along the way, like love, like humbleness, kindness, & the ability to forgive.  This morning as I walking to the kitchen I heard the pastor say God is shifting you and He is going to get something new out of something old. I got back in my bed looked at my phone that was flashing at me and out of all the words I got this one jumped out The Blessing of Brokenness.

I think it caught my attention because even though the joy of the Lord is my strength I am broken, I am waiting on God to put me completely back together, I am waiting on Him to restore my life, my finances, my marriage, my relationships, my family unit as a whole. Anyone who really knows me knows that I love my family, the good the bad the indifferent. There are plenty that get on my nerves and I am sure the feeling is mutual, but if they need me I am here. There are times when God will cause me to just reach out to them and it's always on time. Now even though they are family/friends I don' t talk to them everyday and some of them not at all, so my first response is God are you serious.  But I  learned along time ago obedience is better than sacrifice, 

Today is Thanksgiving and many of you are like me you are sad, but thankful, you are mourning but thankful, because some family member(s)  that used to be there won't be this year for some reason or another, maybe they have gone on to glory, maybe they are just absent from your life at this time. God said to invite the Trinity to take their place. Then let the trinity know that you are thankful for the time you had with them, and ask the Trinity to stay and feel that void. 

I won't keep you much longer but I have to impress this upon you, if you have not yet allowed God to break you and start the restoration process please do so, because He is the only one that can fix you. He can't fix you if you won't let Him know you are hurt and broken. Oh He knows, but He is a gentlemen and He is not going just start working on you and you haven't asked Him too, you haven't reached out cried out and said fix me Lord and use me.  Yes, it's a humbling experience, but it's far better than perishing because of your pride.  

I am at peace today when I thought I would be a mess, because nothing in my life right now is how I wanted to be, my family relationships are strained, my marriage needs work. My finances could surely be better. But I am here, and because I don't mind being broken, I am being broken. GOD is healing, repairing and restoring and He is using the glue called loved, the cement called prosperity, the varnish called joy. No no band-aids, ace wraps, or duct tape. He is using the good stuff.  The stuff that is going to get something new out of something old.  I am sure my family and friends maybe reading this saying she strikes again, telling our business.  I am being obedient to God so if you mad about it get over it.  I am not the only one in this situation. I am not the only one who has  dysfunctional family members and friends. God wants someone reading this to know that they are not alone.

God wants someone reading this day to be the one to say God heal my family and start with me. He wants someone to have enough love and compassion to say I'll take the mantle God start with me I am hurt, I am broken and so are my people please restore me and them.  Before this day ends God wants someone to get in a corner and ask God to move at the speed of multiplication so that before the end of the year broken people are healed and made new, families are restored, the people that are gone on to glory are remembered with happiness and not mourned. He wants you ask for closure to things that need to be closed and put away. God does not want us to take junk and hurt into the new year. 

Allow God to give the Blessing that He is trying to give out of your Brokenness. Rather you know it are not. It starts with you. I know it doesn't feel good, I know it hurts, I know you'd rather be in any other position, but think about this you, could be in the hands of Angry God and that wouldn't be good, you could be in a place where your pride and disobedience has caused God to take His hands off you, remove the hedge of protection around you and allow the enemy to have his way. 

Be thankful for the blessing of brokenness, be thankful not just today but tomorrow, because God is not a man that He should lie, and He said if we ask in Jesus name that He will give us the desires of our hearts. 

Father God, I ask that each person reading this realizes the blessing in their brokenness, I pray that they see that it is not just about them but just like you sent Jesus to save us all, you have chosen them to save their families. You have set them apart and that even though they may not want this job I pray their response is the same as Jesus' was on that day, that they say never the less not my will but your will be done.   Enjoy your time with your family someone out there is all alone and doesn't know the love of family or God. So again even your brokenness you are blessed. 

I am Blessed to Be a Blessing, 

Shon Garner Cole and you can follow me at http://realtalkwithshon.blogspot.com/

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We've all seen restored furniture. Restoring furniture involves stripping away old varnish or paint with strong chemicals. This reveals all the nooks, crannies and original spots on the piece. The sanding takes place next - the wood is rubbed with coarse sandpaper in order to level out its imperfections. Then the furniture is ready to receive a new stain or paint color - it's ready for a new look. New glory can be given to old furniture. And God can do the same thing with us. He can put new glory inside an old life, but He must first strip away our old nature and sand away our sinful strongholds.

We shouldn't run from being broken. It's not pleasant or happy, but it will produce a better life. Brokenness is a blessing because it puts us on the road to a breakthrough. Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit" (Matthew 5:3) Those who are spiritually broken will be blessed because they will see God and experience His reality flowing through their lives.

Scripture promises that God remains with those who are broken and makes them stronger than before. Psalm 34:18 says, "The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit." Isaiah 61:3 teaches that God would give those who mourn and are broken "agarland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified."