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    Restart Your Heart: 21 Encouraging Devotions So You Can Love Like You've Never Been Hurt
    Restart Your Heart: 21 Encouraging Devotions So You Can Love Like You've Never Been Hurt
    Restart Your Heart: 21 Encouraging Devotions So You Can Love Like You've Never Been Hurt
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    Restart Your Heart: 21 Encouraging Devotions So You Can Love Like You've Never Been Hurt

    By Jentezen Franklin

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    Does it sometimes feel as though painful events and circumstances have caused your heart to flatline? Have you been looking for a chance to change? If you know that something needs to be done, then hear God saying to you, "It's time." Give him permission to begin a work of healing within you. It's time to restart your heart.

    In this inspiring 21-day devotional, author and pastor Jentezen Franklin offers hope and encouragement to individuals seeking reconciliation, healing, and breakthrough. Pastor Jentezen shows you how to leave behind hurt and bitterness, and instead choose love and forgiveness, to release unfathomable freedom and joy in Christ.

    It is your season for healing. The Holy Spirit will help you in every single area of your life. Live in expectation!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateDec 18, 2018
    ISBN9781493420117
    Restart Your Heart: 21 Encouraging Devotions So You Can Love Like You've Never Been Hurt

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      Such a beautiful book filled with words of encouragement that has truly helped me transform my thinking
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      After reading “Love like you’ve never been hurt” this 21 day devotional really took every lesson home. Forgiveness is not easy, God knows is not easy for us, yet He commands us to do it, not for others, but for ourselves. His plan is for us to live fully and un forgiveness creates bitterness in our hearts, which keeps us from living the life He had planned for us.

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    Restart Your Heart - Jentezen Franklin

    © 2018 by Jentezen Franklin

    Published by Chosen Books

    11400 Hampshire Avenue South

    Bloomington, Minnesota 55438

    www.chosenbooks.com

    Chosen Books is a division of

    Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan

    www.bakerpublishinggroup.com

    Ebook edition created 2018

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

    ISBN 978-1-4934-2011-7

    Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

    Scripture quotations identified NASB are from the New American Standard Bible® (NASB), copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.Lockman.org

    Scripture quotations identified NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

    Scripture quotations identified NLT are from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

    Author represented by The FEDD Agency, Inc.

    CONTENTS

    Cover    1

    Title Page    2

    Copyright Page    3

    Introduction: The Power of Expectation    5

    1. It’s Time    9

    2. The Hardest Words Ever Said    15

    3. Love Matters    20

    4. Love Never Fails    26

    5. Pushing Past the Quitting Points    32

    6. It Is Never Wrong to Love    38

    7. Don’t Settle; Keep Climbing    43

    8. Stop Keeping Score and Start Losing Count    48

    9. The Best Brought Out by the Worst    54

    10. The Struggle Is Real    60

    11. Let Love Lead You    66

    12. Get Ready for a New You    72

    13. His Loving Kindness    78

    14. Blessed Are the Peacemakers    83

    15. Love God Like You’ve Never Been Hurt    89

    16. Believe the Promise    94

    17. Pulling Down Strongholds    100

    18. Faith in the Unseen    105

    19. Quitting Is Never an Option    111

    20. After This—There’s More    117

    21. Pulling It All Together    123

    About the Author    128

    Back Cover    129

    INTRODUCTION

    THE POWER OF EXPECTATION

    It’s time to restart your heart. Too many of life’s challenges and challenging people have filled our minds with doubt, frustration and bitterness. Check yourself by checking your self-talk. What kinds of thoughts occupy your mind these days? Are they thoughts of a hope and a future? Are they thoughts about whom you can bless and who has blessed you? Do you spend more time thinking about what you don’t have than praying prayers of thanksgiving for what you do have? The conversations we have in our heads tell us a lot about the condition of our hearts. Why don’t we restart those thought processes right now—today? Do you need a miracle? Do you desire a breakthrough? How about a word from God or a healing? It’s time to expect great things!

    Nothing can derail our pursuit of God like an offense or a hurt at the hands of another. When it comes at the hands of those we least expect to hurt us, the effects can last for years. If there is anything I have learned as a pastor, it’s that time does not heal all wounds. In fact, sometimes time can be our worst enemy as that root of bitterness grows deeper, the walls go up, and the hurt turns into bitterness and isolation.

    Over the next 21 days, I believe all of that can change. That needs to change. A restart is what is needed, and there is no time like the present to begin that process. The only requirement is expectation. Hebrews 11:6 tells us that our faith pleases God. We need to understand that if God is going to do something, He looks for people who live with great expectation. In Luke 3 we see desperate people in eager expectation of their Messiah’s coming, on tiptoes in anticipation:

    Now as the people were in expectation, and all reasoned in their hearts about John, whether he was the Christ or not, John answered, saying to all, I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

    Luke 3:15–16, emphasis added

    Our God is all-powerful, yet we limit His work in our lives when we refuse to believe in His ability and His victory. We need to activate our faith and stand in tiptoe expectation, knowing He can do the impossible! Let’s take a look at one man in the Bible who held great expectation.

    The Lame Man at the Temple

    There was a man who was lame from birth, but despite his disability, he managed to get people to carry him to the Temple to beg for money each day. His life, his livelihood and his identity revolved around his sickness. But that all changed at three o’clock one afternoon with an event that altered the trajectory of this man’s life forever. The Bible tells us that Peter and John, as they were heading to the Temple, took notice of this beggar and stopped and looked intently at this spectacle of a man. The Bible says that Peter looked right at him, as did John. Then Peter said, Look at us. So the lame man "gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them" (Acts 3:4–5, emphasis added). The rest is history as that lame man was healed instantly as his feet and ankles became strong.

    The man activated his faith and received his miracle right then and there because of his great expectation. What if that lame man had said to Peter and John, I’ve been here every day of my life up to this point. I guess I’m just destined to be here every day from here on out. His miracle would not have taken place without his faith. He expected a gift that day—and he got a life-changing one. But, day after day, his expectation overcame his pessimism as he would awake and say, Maybe today!

    Here’s the best part of the story. He got up from that place, and, while he could have gone anywhere he wanted to go with healthy feet and ankles, he chose to go with Peter and John to the Temple courts jumping and praising God. His heart had been restarted—and yours will be, too, as you begin to see the broken places you have learned to live with healed and made useful again.

    A New Day

    God has so much for you. It is no accident that you are reading these pages right now. These 21 days are a divine appointment for a surgical procedure you need. Allow the Lord to restart your heart the way He has, story after story, for readers

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