Help my heart be broken to the things that God’s heart is broken about.

Storms make a strong tree, sufferings make a strong saint.

Hopelessness went out with the resurrection

2 Cor. 4: 16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner manis being renewed day by day. 17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, 18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2 Cor. 5:1-7   1 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven,  3 inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.  4 For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.  5 Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.  6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.  7 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 

Psa. 68:19-20 19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation. 20 God is to us a God of deliverances; and to God the Lord belong escapes from death.

Pro. 17:14 The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but as for a broken spirit who can bear it?

Romans 8:18  For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Ps. 34:15,17-19 15 The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and His ears are open to their cry. 17    The righteous cry, and the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. 18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

Rev. 21:3-4  3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, 4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.

Pro. 14: 13 Even in laughter the heart may be in pain, and the end of joy may be grief. 

Eccles 7:1,3, 1 A good name is better than a good ointment, and the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter, for when a face is sad a heart may be happy.  

John 14:1-3  1 “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe  also in Me. 2 “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3 “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.

Phil. 3:20-21 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-4, 11 1 There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven 2 A time to give birth and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. 3 A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time to build up. 4 A time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.  11 He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

I Thessalonians 4: 13-18   13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.  14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.  18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Ps. 147:1,3,4,5, 1 Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God…3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. 4 He counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them. 5 Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.

Psalm 147: 6  The Lord supports the afflicted; He brings down the wicked to the ground. 11 The Lord favors those who fear Him, Those who wait for His lovingkindness.

Ps. 30:4-5 4 Sing praise to the Lord, you His godly ones, and give thanks to His holy name. 5 For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime; weeping may last for the night, But a shout of joy comes in the morning.