HEART ATTACK (part 1 of 4)

A broken Spirit says, “there is no way.”
- A broken Heart says, “I don’t know a way, but I will follow the
way.”

- A broken Spirit says, “I can’t so I won’t”
- A broken Heart says, “I can Through Christ that strengthens me”

- A broken Spirit says, “I am down and I cannot get up.”
- A broken Heart says, “I am down but watch me get back up.”

- A broken Spirit says, “There is no way to win.”
- A broken Heart says, “It’s not by might nor by power but by God’s
Spirit”

- A broken Spirit says, “There is no hope.”
- A broken Heart says, “My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus
- blood and Righteousness”

- A broken Spirit says, “I quit, I give up, I’m throwing in the towel.”
- A broken Heart says, “As long as I have breath in my body,
Strength in my soul I’ll never quit, I want
stop.”


3. Your Spirit is that part of you that keeps you going when your heart is
lying on the floor broken into pieces.

Proverbs 17:22 but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

4. A wounded Spirit is one that has lost it ability
- To turn to God.
- To trust God
- To know that God is in control
- & To understand that what Satan has meant for evil God can take it and use it for His glory.

5. A broken heart can keep going because it still has
- Something to trust in
- Something to Hope for
- Something that is sure

6. Heart Attack Victims

A. Broken Hearted Job
- 10 caskets of his children
- Health gone
- Money gone
- Wife & friends turn on him
- His spirit is still strong
- “Though He Slay me yet will I Trust Him.”
- Broken hearted but not broken spirit

B. Broken Hearted Ezekiel
- Preaching and comes home to find that his baby is dead
- Goes back to preach a few nights later comes home his wife dies
- The next day he is out there preaching
- Broken hearted but not broken spirit

C. Broken hearted David
- Sinned
- Child dies
- Cries out with a repentant heart, “God renew a right spirit in me.”
- When you lose out with God the first thing to go is your spirit.
- God restores him.

D. Broken hearted Ananias Judson
- He went to Burma and preached 40 years
- Buried his children in Burma
- Buried his wife in Burma
- Returned home alone Crushed but with a spirit that had seen him through.

E. Broken hearted here today
- You can rise above the attack of Satan
- Hold your head up high
- Look to the sky
- And shout “Devil you me break my heart but you will never break my Spirit.”



III. Building A Heart that withstands attack

Ps 112:7 He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.
8 His heart is secure, he will have no fear; in the end he will look in triumph on his foes.
(NIV)

1. It is built on commitment.

Psalms 112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
- No matter what comes at me I will not let my heart worry because it is fixed on God

2. It is built on faith

Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:

A. Moses, Had a heart of faith to march