<blockquote>
Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it" (<a id="verse_1632878118900345" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Matthew/26/26">Matt. 26:26</a>).
</blockquote>The Lord Jesus is not going to break' anything in our lives that does not require breaking. But that of the old which remains unbroken, which we seek to hold back from the processing of His nail-pierced hands, will continually leaven and spoil our attempts to feed others."How often we have murmured under trial only to see later the preparation of the Lord Jesus of our hearts that we might be His ministers of comfort in an hour of need in the life of another (<a id="verse_1632878118807334" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/2-Corinthians/1/4">2 Cor. 1:4</a>). Afflictions, therefore, many times are the advance token of the Father that we are being prepared for a special ministry of comfort to others. This is a principle seen throughout the Word. All that would be used of the Father in the hands of the Lord Jesus to meet the needs of the hungry-hearted must first be made a blessing by Him. This involves being broken in His hands. This process is necessary because of our tendency to think more of working for the Lord Jesus than becoming a channel for the outflowing of heavenly bread to broken hearts on every side." -H.R."Others come to us in their deep need, and, with our hearts breaking, we are called upon to give out of our emptiness and loss what we seem to need ourselves. We are asked to claim victory' for others in distress, when it seems that we are in greater distress than they. Thus it was at Calvary! He who had loosed others from bondage was given up, as it appeared, to the full rage of the murderous enemy. He who had done the mighty works of God for others, lay in impotence and weakness in the hands of men. Yes, this is the Cross. Life, power, blessing, deliverance for others - and nothing for thyself, but to lie in the will of the Father, and accept from His hand all that He pleases to permit to come upon thee.""Come and let us return unto the Lord; for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up" (<a id="verse_1632878118720543" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Hosea/6/1">Hosea 6:1</a>).

A 365 day devotional that will help you in your Christian growth and walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.  This devotional is a collection of quotes from some of the best authors in the realm of Christian growth that has been organized by Miles J Stanford.  This devotional study is divided into 12 sections each containing 31 daily portions.

None but the Hungry Heart

 Broken Bread 

"Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up." Hosea 6:1 It is the LORD's way to tear before He heals. This is the honest love of His heart and the sure surgery of His hand. He also bruises before He binds up, or else it would be uncertain work. The law comes before the gospel, the sense of need before the supply of it. Is the reader now under the convincing, crushing hand of the Spirit? Has he received the spirit of bondage again to fear? This is a salutary preliminary to real gospel healing and binding up. Do not despair, dear heart, but come to the LORD with all thy jagged wounds, black bruises, and running sores. He alone can heal, and He delights to do it. It is our LORD's office to bind up the brokenhearted, and He is gloriously at home at it. Let us not linger but at once return unto the LORD from whom we have gone astray. Let us show Him our gaping wounds and beseech him to know His own work and complete it. Will a surgeon make an incision and then leave his patient to bleed to death? Will the LORD pull down our old house and then refuse to build us a better one? Dost Thou ever wantonly increase the misery of poor anxious souls? That be far from Thee, O LORD.

Another classic from the pen of C.H. Spurgeon that will challenge and inspire you on your daily path to Heaven.

Charles Spurgeon's Faith's Checkbook

Surgery for Healing

For Reading and Meditation:      Hosea 6:1-11A danger that we must acquaint ourselves with as we discuss the need to contemplate God more deeply is that of becoming more interested in godliness than in God Himself. Theologian Jim Packer puts the point effectively when he says that "moving in evangelical circles as I do I am often troubled by what I find. While my fellow believers are constantly seeking to advance in godliness, they show little direct interest in God Himself. When they study Scripture, only the principles of personal godliness get their attention; their heavenly Father does not. It is as if they should concentrate on the ethics of marriage and fail to spend time with their spouse!" He goes on to say: "There is something narcissistic, and, to tell the truth, nutty in being more concerned with godliness than about God." I think "nutty" is the right word. I knew a man who went to every seminar he could find on the subject of marriage, and whenever he came upon a new idea of a deep insight he would reflect for hours on its wonder and profundity. The only trouble was he never got past the reflecting stage, and while he indulged himself in new and profound ideas, his wife was left languishing at home. How sad that a man can take more interest in the principles that undergird his marriage than in the partner whom he has pledged to love, honor, and cherish. Let's be watchful that we don't care more for the principles of godliness than the God we are called to praise and please every day of our lives.Gracious and loving heavenly Father, forgive me I pray if I have been caught up more in the mechanics of my faith than in the dynamics of it. May nothing ever become more important to me than my relationship with You. Amen.<div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>2 Timothy 3:1-5</li><li>2 Chronicles 25:1-2</li><li>Isaiah 29:13</li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What is one of the signs of the last days?</li><li>What is said of Amaziah?</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears." (v. 4)

<h3>Israel Unrepentant</h3>6 <poetry>“Come, let us return to the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap>. He has torn us to pieces <indent>but he will heal us; </indent> he has injured us <indent>but he will bind up our wounds. </indent> </poetry>

Hosea 6:1

“Come, let us return<cr>1</cr> to the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap>. He has torn us to pieces<cr>2</cr> <indent>but he will heal us;<cr>3</cr> </indent> he has injured us <indent>but he will bind up our wounds.<cr>4</cr> </indent>

 “Come, let us return  to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces  but he will heal us;  he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.  

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 “Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. 

Hosea 6:1 NIV

Hosea 6:1 NIV

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