God Heals the Broken Hearted 3

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

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 the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; Isaiah Chapter 61 verse 1.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor .Luke Chapter 4 verses 18 to 19.

But beloved, please wait a minute. Did Hannah’s unhappiness on account of Peninah’s venom make Peninah a happy woman? Not at all! Peninah continued in her misery as she really and truly was the unhappy one who could not find anything to be happy about in life. In reality, Peninah was the one who needed help be it spiritual, medical, psychological, emotional, you name it; urgently. Yet, Peninah hid her unhappiness and great need for help in bullying Hannah mentally. Are you a bully? You need help urgently as a bully is actually manifesting his or her great cry for help in whatever form s/he bullies other people. Unfortunately for Peninah, no one took notice of her great and desperate cry for help as Elkanah focused his energies on consoling Hannah and reassuring her of his undying love for her. So, Peninah suffered and unleashed her pain and anger on Hannah.

While Peninah enjoyed her evil reign of torturing Hannah mentally and spiritually; year in and year out, God was at work in the life of Hannah. Gradually and progressively, Hannah came to realize that God created and owned her life for a purpose. One day, Hannah rose above the mental and emotional torture, made peace with God; restored her relationship with God; akin  to what Elijah did for Israel in 1^st Kings Chapter 18 by restoring the altar of the Lord. Thereafter, Hannah experienced an abundance of the love of God, the peace of God and requested for a child. She also experienced and enjoyed more of the love of her husband and an abundance of the fruit of the womb just as Israel experienced abundant rainfall after the restoration of the altar. Her broken heart had been healed.

Also, God exceeded the expectations of Hannah and made her a mother of four sons and two daughters. Significantly and quite instructive to all bullies and those who allow themselves to be used as tools of satanic oppression in the hands of the enemy; no mention was made of Peninah and her children after Hannah became a mother. Additionally, Peninah and her children are not mentioned in the genealogy of Elkanah. What a way to be delisted from God’s written history of families. Peninah expunged herself and her children from the genealogy of Elkanah by her bitter heart and venomous mouth. Great lessons to learn from Peninah’s heart and tongue!

God Heals the Broken Hearted 2

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 1^st 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.