Jesus, the Good Shepherd, heals your brokenness and strengthens you for ministry.

“I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up [chabash] the broken [shabar] and strengthen what was sick” (Ezek 34:16)

“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted [suntribo kardia]” (Lk 4:18)

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” (Jn 10:11)

“I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.” (Jn 10:14)

“The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart [shabar leb]” (Ps 34:18)

“He heals [rapha] the brokenhearted [shabar leb] and binds up [chabash] their wounds.” (Ps147:3)

“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal [chabash] the brokenhearted [shabar leb]” (Isa 61:1)

“Come, and let us return to the LORD; for He has torn, but He will heal [rapha] us; He has stricken, but He will bind [chabash] us up.” (Hos 6:1)

“For He bruises, but He binds up [chabash]; He wounds, but His hands make whole [rapha].” (Job 5:18)

“of which I became a minister according to the gift [dorea] of the grace of God given to me by the effective working [energeia] of His power dunamis.” (Eph 3:7)

“and what is the exceeding greatness [huperballo megethos] of His power [dunamis] toward us who believe, according to the working [energeia] of His mighty power [ischus kratos] which He worked [energeo] in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places” (Eph 1:19,20)

“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power [dunamis] that works [energeo] in us” (Eph 3:20)

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord” (1Cor 15:58)

“As each one has received a gift [charisma], minister [diakoneo] it to one another, as good stewards [oikonomos] of the manifold [poikilos] grace [charis] of God.” (1Pet 4:10)

“that He would grant [didomi=gift] you, according to the riches [ploutos] of His glory [doxa], to be strengthened [krataioo] with might [dunamis] through His Spirit in the inner man” (Eph 3:16)

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power [dunamis] may be of God and not of us.” (2Cor 4:7)

“strengthened [dunamoo] with all might [dunamis], according to His glorious power [kratos], for all patience and longsuffering with joy” (Col 1:11)

“As each one has received a gift [charisma], minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace [charis] of God.” (1Pet 4:10)

Reading: Ezek 33-35; Col 2