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God is close when it hurts!

Let’s pray 🙏🏾 and get this day underway♥️!

Hey hey family! 🌅 Let me just say this — if your HEART’S been through it lately 💔, Psalm 34:18 is a gentle whisper just for YOU 🕊️. The Word says that THE LORD IS CLOSE to the BROKENHEARTED and saves those who are CRUSHED IN SPIRIT 😔.

This isn’t some poetic saying. David LIVED THIS 🙇🏾‍♂️. He wasn’t writing from a mountaintop moment — he was running for his life, abandoned, rejected, misunderstood... and STILL he TESTIFIED: God is NEAR. 🙏🏾

We are not SHIELDED from HEARTBREAK. Not even JESUS was 💔. Think about it — knowing Judas would betray Him… watching people He LOVED turn away… Yeah, His heart broke too 😢. So what does that mean for us? It means it’s OKAY to WEEP 😭. It’s okay to FEEL IT. Just don’t walk through it without GOD.

Your job is not to pretend it doesn’t hurt. Your job is to fall at HIS FEET and say, “Lord, I need you HERE.” And guess what? HE IS. ✨ He sent His Spirit to COMFORT, not to REMOVE the pain, but to REDEEM it 💎.

🕊️Scriptures to Meditate On🙏🏾:

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 – The God of all comfort

Isaiah 41:10 – Fear not, for I am with you

#ComfortThroughChrist #GodSeesYourTears #JesusHeals #HolySpiritIsWithYou

#LetsPray #ADoseOfTruth #SideHustleQueen #ChristianTikTok #ChristianFacebook #ChristianYouTube #God #ChristianInstagram #Jesus #HolySpirit #LetsBreakBread #TheOne #LostSheep #ALightInTheNight #HealingSeason

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