God I Am Hurting and I Want to Be Made Whole Again: Wounds of the Heart They Do Heal.

By Martha M. Boyd

As I look around day after day at the body of Christ as a whole, many members but one body of Christ, my spirit is grieved. Pastor, teacher, preacher, Christian leaderour leaders are becoming weary, and they are no longer walking in the strong faith they once walked in. Day after day, I am face-to-face with yet another weary, wounded believer who is willing to quit and give up rather than get to the secret of the matter at hand.
I have found myself teaching, preaching to another with a wounded, broken heart while my heart was bleeding worse than the one whom I was helping. I found depressionwhatever pressed you could name, I was connected to it. Just down and out, I could not even get out of bed for weeks at a time. All I wanted to do was to help others become healed of their wounded issues while I was covering up, still in fragments myself. I see so many wounded leaders in charge of so many souls who are hurting and needing Gods help to make them wholethey are hurting and wounded themselves.
A question of our covered-up, wounded heart that my spiritual radar tuned into is, whom do we as spiritual leaders turn to when we are wounded and bleeding from our issues? I hear over and over from spiritual leaders: whom do we talk to when we find ourselves, as Paul puts it, in trouble on every side, case down, perplexed, and even persecuted who do we turn to? What step or tools does a leader who shepherds over many souls have to use to express in daily life how not to feel distressed, despair, forsaken or destroyed? How can you and I as leaders help a wounded Christian in the need to be made whole when we ourselves are still in fragments: uncompleted, fragile, easily broken, broken in many pieces, not all together ourselves?
I have learned over the years as a spiritual leader that we have learned how to covered up our wounds well; we have learned to cover up our pain and hurt that were afflicted upon us by

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9781493102778

Martha M. Boyd

Martha Boyd, she is a licensed and ordained minister and has been preaching and teaching the gospel for over ten years. She is obedient to the voice and Word of God; a minister who has been transformed into the image of God, she often shares her insights in women and men ministries. She is a wife of one man, a mother of five children, and a grandmother, and most of all, she has a passion to share and do the will of God. Minister Boyd has had this passion for ministries since the age of fifteen. So come on this journey and watch how God will transform you into his image if he has not already because it is a contagious epidemic of becoming in the likeness of Jesus, God the Son.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Part One:   Broken Ribs, They Do Heal

The first principle is getting back in position.

Part Two

Stage 4 Wounds of the Heart

The second principle to the healing process is to acknowledge and recognize that there is a problem.

Part Three

Stage 3 Wounds of the Heart

The third principle is pray

Part Four

Stage 2 Wounds of the Heart

The fourth principle of the wound of the heart is men and women of God knowing that they are on a mission to take back!

Part Five

Stage 1 Wounds of the Heart

The fifth principle of the wounded heart is being willing to leave all to get all!

Part Six

The sixth principle of the wound of the heart is men and women keeping the faith knowing that broken ribs, they do heal!

Biography

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I would like to send out a special thanks to:

My Mother Martha C. Simmons for her impartation into my life concerning teaching me to say daily thank God for Jesus from the womb unto 2009 thanks mom.

My husband, Marqus Boyd I for his long suffering concerning my all nights seeking out God for his guidance.

My children Victoria, Marqutta, Alexis, DeAngelo, Marqus II, and LaCorey for their patience through it all.

My sister, Dorothy Antone for being a sister after God’s own heart.

INTRODUCTION

As I look around day after day at the body of Christ as a whole, many members but one body of Christ, my spirit is grieved. Pastor, teacher, preacher, Christian leader—our leaders are becoming weary, and they are no longer walking in the strong faith they once walked in. Day after day, I am face-to-face with yet another weary, wounded believer who is willing to quit and give up rather than get to the secret of the matter at hand.

I have found myself teaching, preaching to another with a wounded, broken heart while my heart was bleeding worse than the one whom I was helping. I found depression—whatever pressed you could name, I was connected to it. Just down and out, I could not even get out of bed for weeks at a time. All I wanted to do was to help others become healed of their wounded issues while I was covering up, still in fragments myself. I see so many wounded leaders in charge of so many souls who are hurting and needing God’s help to make them whole—they are hurting and wounded themselves.

A question of our covered-up, wounded heart that my spiritual radar tuned into is, whom do we as spiritual leaders turn to when we are wounded and bleeding from our issues? I hear over and over from spiritual leaders: whom do we talk to when we find ourselves, as Paul puts it, in trouble on every side, case down, perplexed, and even persecuted who do we turn to? What step or tools does a leader who shepherds over many souls have to use to express in daily life how not to feel distressed, despair, forsaken or destroyed? How can you and I as leaders help a wounded Christian in the need to be made whole when we ourselves are still in fragments: uncompleted, fragile, easily broken, broken in many pieces, not all together ourselves?

I have learned over the years as a spiritual leader that we have learned how to covered up our wounds well; we have learned to cover up our pain and hurt that were afflicted upon us by others, pain and hurt that we as leaders have afflicted upon others, and even self-afflicted pain or whatever the case may be that has caused us to cover up our wounds with stuff such as the following:

Murders [killing others with our painful words], adulteries [cheating, playing the game of what goes around, comes around], fornications [sleeping around, trying to fulfill the pain and hurt], thefts [joy-taker; misery loves company; I am sad,