Heart Attack (Part 1 Of 4) Series

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 into Pharoph’s court because he had been in the presence of God.

B. David, had a heart of faith when he stood before Goliath because he had experienced the anointing before.

C. Elisha, had a heart of faith because he had seen the hand of God move through Elijah and was able to take that mantle and divide the river Jordan.

- The more your in the presence of God; the more you experience the anointing of God, the more you walk with people that pull you to God, the more your heart will be built up in faith.

3. It’s built on trust

- No matter how great the attack God will see you through & victory over our foe will be ours.