Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
He heals the
brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. Psalm
147 verse 3
A broken spirit dries the bones. Please see Proverbs
Chapters 17 verse 22, 18 verse 14. A broken spirit aggravates sickness. A
broken spirit can be referred to as heartache or sorrow of the heart and such
conditions can make a person broken hearted. Please see Proverbs Chapter 15
verse 13. What are the causes of heartache, and broken heartedness? Some of the
causes include failed, stormy, unfulfilling and askewed relationships, unmet
desires, betrayal, anxiety (Proverbs Chapter 12 verse 25). A perverse tongue
such as the tongues of Peninah, Shimei can also make the victims of such
tongues to be broken hearted. Please see Proverbs Chapter 15 verse 4.
Peninah’s heart and tongue are appalling. Peninah
had everything any woman could probably ask for in life – she had a wealthy
loving God fearing man for a husband; had unnamed number of children, lived in
a big beautiful home with a number of luxury items and probably had a large
housekeeping and wardrobe allowance. Yet Peninah was an unhappy woman full of
bitterness and envy. She envied Hannah because Elkanah their husband loved
Hannah more. Additionally, Peninah grew her envy to great trees of bitterness
which she mentally processed as verbal venom, which she released at Hannah at
will with the singular objective of making Hannah miserable.
Beloved, I dare to say that Peninah was a septic
tank of verbal venom designed to overwhelm and poison Hannah to a state of
great anxiety that would make it impossible for Hannah to eat. Ironically and
quite sadly, Peninah enjoyed the satanic mission and assignment of unleashing
verbal venom on her fellow human being and her fellow woman with whom she
shared her husband, Elkanah. To state it mildly, Peninah was vicious. It is one
thing to be nasty because you find it difficult to deal with negative emotions
but for a person to actually enjoy being nasty and spill out verbal venom at
the drop of a hat speaks of utmost depravity, loss of humanity and any iota of
goodness. Peninah had lost her humanity and was a very useful instrument of
satanic oppression in the hands of the devil. Her heart crafted evil words and
utterances which her despicable tongue; a tongue which was greatly in need of
healing released with reckless abandon. Her heart was a bitter factory of evil
while her tongue was a leaky faucet of verbal venom. Please read 1st
Samuel Chapter 1 verses 1 to 10. She succeeded for a while in making Hannah
miserable because Hannah was ignorant of who she was as a child of God. So
Hannah wept sore and refused to eat.
Peninah’s tongue has the capacity to mislead and
misdirect people into the wrong direction. The utterances take a person’s focus
away from God Who has the solutions to focus on the challenges, the attendant
ridicule and mockery from the Peninahs of the world and of course on anxiety,
fear, worry and misery. No one needs a Peninah but when they show up, it is
godly wisdom to ignore them and focus on God so that a person does not lose
focus and direction. Peninah’s tongue
also has the capacity to make a person wander in the trackless deserts of fear,
confusion, worry, anxiety and misery. And the more a person pays attention to
Peninah’s tongue, the more entangled the person becomes in the trackless desert
without any exit doors in sight. However, if such a person wakes up to who
Peninah is and the reality of Peninah’s tongue and then takes a quality
decision to ignore Peninah’s tongue and attune his or her ears to the word of
God, then victory is guaranteed from the misleading tongue of Peninah.
Additionally, the person can then see clearly especially God’s exit doors out
of Peninah’s tongue designed to make a person a wanderer in the trackless
deserts of worry, anxiety, fear and confusion. Once out of that trackless
desert, the word of God then provides apt and timely direction for stability,
building and desired growth.
In essence, Peninah’s tongue is opposed to progress,
growth, building and restructuring to consolidate. Peninah’s tongue is a
satanic tool that should be ignored. It is destructive and always brings about
destruction. But for God’s intervention, Hannah would have wallowed in misery
and untimely death. But God intervened and spared her the purported destruction
from Peninah’s tongue.
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