Are you broken today? Lying in a bed of sorrow? Is it due to the afflictions that surround you? Or is it from the sin within you? Do you wonder if God really loves you? Or are you afraid that He has turned His back on you? My prayer is that these four songs comfort your broken heart and help restore in you God’s Joy, God’s Hope, and the truth of the fact that God’s love for you.
Psalm 34:
17 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
A Broken and Contrite Heart
By Effie Darlene Barba
My broken heart I bring you Lord
Contrite from my defeat
I long to feel Your love restored
I fall before your feet
I felt the warmth that mercy brings
Your love my sin did hide
You paid the price, as angels sing
“By faith, you’re justified”
And clothed now in your righteousness
Of which I ne’er deserved
My all I give, how could I less
No part of me reserved
I long to see Your face today
To seek You with my heart
Your Glory lights my darkened way
That I shall ne’er depart.
Psalm 51: Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
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