God Uses Broken People

Is there a God?

No matter what theories you have heard or read, there is one question that no scientist can answer.

Why does anything exist at all? Why is there something instead of nothing?

If you can read these thoughts, you are alive.

How did you come into the world?

Were your parents a loving couple? Maybe not.

Whether you were wanted by your mother or came from an unwanted pregnancy, there is a God who made that pregnancy possible.

If no one on this earth wanted you, there is a loving God who created you because he wanted you.

There are so many people who have only experienced rejection. Then they may hear from preachers that they are also rejected by God because of their sins.

A young Christian approached a young prostitute and threatened her with the flames of hell.

Jesus threatened the proud religious people with the flames of hell, but he was always kind and compassionate with the prostitutes and other broken people.

The self-righteous religious professionals scolded Jesus for keeping company with supposedly wicked sinners.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ Lk 7:34 NIV

Jesus was the Son of God who was in eternal fellowship with Father God before the foundation of the world. God saw broken people, ruined by their own sins, or by the sins of others.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Jn 3:16–17 NIV

When Jesus visited his hometown, he explained his mission of salvation by quoting the Bible.

“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, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; Lk 4:18 NKJV

Jesus did not only want to forgive and heal broken people. He chose rejected people to proclaim God's new world.

Jesus chose despised women, and sent them out.

The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.” Jn 4:18 NIV

This woman then believed in Jesus as the Messiah.

Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,
“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” Jn 4:28–29 NIV

Jesus sent this woman to her village, and everyone came to believe.

If you are broken, Jesus doesn't just want to forgive and heal you. He wants to give you a new life. In this new life you can also help others.

GOD LOVES YOUR HEART

God loves you, every part of you. 

You have dreams and longings deep in your heart. 

• He created your heart with all your dreams and desires and He loves your heart.

But doesn’t the Bible say:

“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? Jeremiah 17:9 (NLT) 

It is true that you and I were born into a spiritually and morally damaged world. 

• As we grow older, we realise how our parents are full of faults. 
• If we are honest, we can see that we are no different, wanting a better life but so often disappointing ourselves and others.

But God made your heart, your hunger for love and truth, your desire for the goodness which always seems to be beyond you.

A man in Los Angeles owned a sex shop selling pornography.
A Christian wanted to help him make peace with God but it was no use telling the man he was a sinner. 

But God gave the Christian man a revelation. 

• This man had a divine gift of comforting people. 

(He was using it the wrong way, selling people the false comfort of sexual illusions.)

When the man saw himself through the eyes of God’s creative love, something changed inside him and he received the love and forgiveness of God. 

He began a new life with Jesus that day.

God loves your heart. He knows your longings and frustrations. 
The past, present and future are like an open book to Him. He created time itself.

Before the beginning of the world He saw you and He looked into your troubled soul ages before you were born.

• He has a wonderful plan for your life. 

• Ask Jesus to come to you and transform you from the inside.

When someone becomes a Christian, he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same any more. A new life has begun! 2 Corinthians 5:17 (TLB) 

Many people consider themselves to be Christians but they don’t know Jesus. 

True Christianity is knowing God personally and willingly allowing Him to transform your life fromt the inside.

For God took the sinless Christ and poured into him our sins. Then, in exchange, he poured God’s goodness into us! 2 Corinthians 5:21 (TLB) 

• God wants to do all of this for you and then to take you on a wonderful journey through a new life that never ends. 

• It all starts with a supernatural personal encounter with Jesus the Son of God. 

• He is here with you now. 

• He died but He returned to life and His love now fills the universe.

“Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends. Revelation 3:20 (NLT) 

A Muslim woman in Iran was watching a Christian TV programme and she heard this message.

• She  heard a knock at her door and when she answered, she saw Jesus standing there, a glorious man in a shining white robe. 

She invited Him inside and offered Him some food. Salvation came to her life that night. 

Whether or not you see Jesus with your natural eyes makes no difference to the spiritual reality of His presence and His love for you.

When Jesus offered His life on the cross, He paid the penalty for our sins but He did not stay dead. As a real human man, Jesus sacrificed His life for us but as God He could not stay dead. 

God is eternal and His supernatural life is an unquenchable fire.

• When Jesus returned to life, He appeared to His disciples. Thomas was not with them and would not believe the story. 

Then Thomas saw Jesus and He believed.

Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!" Then Jesus told him, 

• "Because you have seen me, you have believed; 
• blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." John 20:28-29 (NIV)