Lord, Teach Me To Pray: Prayer For Wounded Hearts

Praying for a wounded heart came easy for me to learn for some reason. God would give me a picture of a container, and as I prayed, I could see the Holy Spirit going down into the container until He reached the bottom. Then as He came up, everything in the container was taken out with Him. All the bad memories, all the pain, all the hurt, and all the anger just took hold of the Holy Spirit and left with that prayer. 

Sometimes the Holy Spirit would lead me to pray healing of the heart for a certain incident in a person’s life. Other times He would give me a word to speak that would trigger a memory and bring release. Proverbs 18: 14 (NKJV) reminds us, “The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, But who can bear a broken spirit?”  I learned that prayer is like soothing oil being poured over an open wound in the heart, bringing healing.

Our heart is capable of many things. It can be drawn to people or things. It can be hard, unyielding, soft or pliable. Our heart can lust, hate, or grieve. It can be immovable, proud, angry, discouraged, filled with agony, or be just plain evil. God wants us to give Him all of our heart, not just a portion, and He wants our hearts healed and whole. 

Jesus said that He came to heal the broken hearted. He knew what it was like to have a broken heart. David, after his seduction of Bathsheba and the plotting to kill her husband, realized his heart had become evil. He had destroyed his integrity, killed his son, and hurt his family. He cried out for a clean heart and a new spirit to be placed within him. God healed his heart. We can experience the same through the amazing power of prayer! 

Dr. Sharon Predovich