HEALING BROKEN HEARTS

If you feel overwhelmed, bruised, or out of options, this episode offers a gentle, practical path back to clarity and hope.

Did you know that "healing broken hearts" is a ministry of the Holy Spirit, and you can take advantage of it? 

You can learn how in this episode. 

Chapters

• 0:00 Setting The Theme: Healing
• 1:01 Sudden Abandonment And Freefall
• 2:49 Finding Relief Through Tongues
• 5:34 Dream Guidance And Church Support
• 8:44 Inner Softness, Outer Strength
• 13:00 Second Dream And Financial Provision
• 16:35 Travel, Setbacks, And Restored Documents
• 19:28 House Miracle And Fresh Start
• 21:37 Purpose, Mission, And Return To Nigeria
• 23:17 Jesus’ Mandate To Heal Hearts
• 25:28 Tongues As A Catalyst For Gifts
• 27:29 Scripture Comfort For The Broken

Transcript

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Hello everyone. Today's episode is titled Healing the Brokenhearted. This is chapter 1 of my book Glossa, Harnessing the Power of Tongues for a Vibrantly Colorful Life. The opening text is Isaiah chapter 61, verse 1. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, Jesus is speaking, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that abound. It was the winter of 2012 when my life took a challenging turn. I had just given birth to a newborn baby and I was taking care of a three-year-old toddler when my ex-husband abruptly left us without a trace. The situation worsened as I had no money, and my savings in his bank account became inaccessible suddenly because the bank claimed his debit card, which was usually in my care, was reported stolen and therefore had to be blocked. To add to the distress, our landlord served us an eviction notice, leaving me in a desperate and isolated position without any means of support. I was emotionally burdened. I felt a heaviness like never before. Throughout my short-lived marriage, I had endured bouts of depression, I had faced numerous hardships. But you see, this time it was especially severe. My heart was filled with an immovable weight. It was like a stone, it was heavy, like I could literally feel it. If I was to touch my chest, it felt heavy, like there was a stone in it. And I found myself unable to cry. I could not even think, I could not even pray. It seemed like nothing made sense to me. Well, in my frustration, I stumbled upon an unexpected way to cope. Very unexpected way to cope because and that method was praying in tongues. I began praying slowly, steadily. I began to find solace in the process. Astonishly, the more I prayed, the lighter I felt. The heaviness began to lift as I spent hours praying in tongues. Well, I would not even consider it praying in tongues because I wasn't necessarily directing my prayers. Like in my thoughts, I was not directing my prayers to God, I was just speaking in tongues. Do you get I couldn't think, think of what? If I think too much, I start to cry, you know. No, no, I couldn't cry. Okay, nothing made sense. I'm a very analytical person. The more I tried to analyze it, it made no sense. So I just didn't want to go through with it, you know. And I couldn't even pray. Do I blame God? Because I blamed God before. I'd blamed God before, you know, and I quickly repented. So at that point, was not the like I'd grown mature, so I I could not blame God anymore. Like I'd grown you know, bigger than that, you know. So what to do? So I just was praying, like rather I was just speaking in tongues. Let's just use the word speaking in tongues because I wasn't necessarily directing my prayers to God, but I was speaking in tongues, right? The more I prayed, the lighter I felt. And the lighter I felt, the heaviness began to lift. As I spent hours speaking in tongues. Although I couldn't comprehend the words that I uttered, I could feel the difference it made in my body. It was making a difference in my mind, it was making a difference in my emotions. So because I was now eager for this positive change, you know, this was like my new pill, you know, my new coping pill. You know, I persisted with the prayers, and the burden continued to lift. It did not disappoint. And I'm telling you, it's been many years now, and it has still not disappointed. It has still not disappointed. Don't forget that the title of this episode is Healing the Broken Hearted. So there's some we were going to read it. A few days into my consistent praying in tongues, right? I had a dream that proved to be significant. As a pastor, I was really anxious about my position and the church that I was pastoring with the knowledge of my estranged husband, fearing that the church policy might lead to my dismissal. However, in this dream, my father in the Lord of blessed memory, he appeared to me and he showed me. He was, it was like we were in a classroom, and then he was showing me on the on the wall, there was a map. All right, there was a the map, a map on the world, and then he was showing me on the map, was pointing to the map. Like I was sitting in the classroom, right? And he was like the lecturer. So, and he's a well, he was a professor then, and then he was showing me on the map, you know, locations where he was going to send me to two different locations on the map where he was sending me for missions. To my surprise, a couple of days later, he called me, sympathized with my situation, and not only assured me of my place in the church, but he also assigned me to another another mission field. Just as in the dream. Can you believe it? Additionally, he arranged for extra financial support to ensure our sustainers during the challenging time. So that was the first miracle. I was very grateful for this opportunity, but the task of moving my family of four to the new mission field required substantial funds. So after paying my rent, I found myself with nothing left. Nonetheless, I continued praying, not even shedding a tear for my heartbreak. The heavy stone in my heart by then had disappeared, and this I'm telling you, isn't just a matter of weeks. The heavy stone in my heart had disappeared. It was now replaced by a growing softness within me. Yet on the outside, I could sense a newfound toughness. The irony of the Christian life, what I found out about the Christian life is that it softens you inside, but it strengthens you outside. Before you come to God, your heart is already hardened. Right? It's like soil that nothing can really be planted, nothing can actually germinate, nothing can grow in it. Okay? But when the Holy Spirit comes into you, suddenly it's softened. Now seeds can be planted and it will grow and it will manifest, it will germinate. Do you understand? So you find that the closer you get to God, the softer you are on the inside. And yet the exterior has a harder shell. I don't know how to explain it. I don't even know if I'm making sense. When I was growing up, right, I was a very angry child because of my toxic background, family background, right? So I was an angry child, but I tried to cope with many things, and of course, coupled with the fact that God actually spoke to me when I was six years old and told me that even if I didn't see love in my family, that I should love and he would reward me with love. That's what God told me. He's still like one of the first times God spoke to me, six years old, many years ago, you know, and he said, just love open. And that's if you if you know me or you know anybody who knows me, that that's me. I would love you, love you, love you. But if I get to the point where you disrespect me, I'll walk away from you. Okay, I'm not going to take I'm not going to take disrespect. I'll just walk away from you. Okay. And that's as easily as I loved you, you know, is the same way I'll just I'll move away because I will not love you into destroying myself. Do you get? But why am I loving you so in spite of you, and in spite of the fact that you're not even loving me back? I'm doing that because God gave me an instruction when I was six years old, and he said to me, He said, Love, he told me I should love everyone as much as it depends on me, and that he would give me love in return. Okay? Now, how God plans to give me love in return, I don't know my relationship with him, you know, but truth, truth, truly, over the years, my my network is quite small, but filled with trusted, wonderful, loving people, loyal, that I have no business, like I did nothing to bring such people into my life. Do you understand? I I had no contribution to bringing such people into my life, and I have even no contribution in maintaining the relationship, but these are people that just love me because maybe they also had an instruction from God to also love me the same way. Okay, so so that's just me and God. As I grew older and I noticed people's behavior when you love them, and then they begin to treat you in a certain way. I can't say that I was completely faithful to what God told me to do from the time I was younger, right? Because I would say that I fell short because I would see people's attitudes, you know. People would, especially when you love them and they don't love themselves, you know, they tend to look down on you because they are wondering why you even love them. So they feel like you're below them when you're showing them love. There's just this weird way that unhealed people react to genuine love. So based on that, I now became tough. I now developed like this rough exterior, tough exterior, but also a tough, you know, shell over my heart. Because I don't want you to break my heart at this point. Do you get? I didn't believe in relationships, so many things. I didn't, I just didn't want you to break my heart. So I had to protect myself, you know. Well, I found out that the closer you get to God, you see that thing that you're protecting your heart, you will tear it off. You'll become, you will become more tender, you'll become soft. It does not matter what people do to you anymore, it doesn't matter how much they break your heart, you become soft, but the outward will be tough. So that means that even if you're soft on the inside, right? It does not matter what hits you. That softness on the inside is like a godlikeness, it looks soft to the people of the world. You know how light looks like so fragile, and yet is more powerful than darkness. Yes, that's what I mean. Love looks so fragile, but it's actually most more powerful than hatred, than any other thing, you know. So that's what I'm trying to say. The the more you love, the softer you become, okay, but with a harder exterior. So it doesn't matter what they hit you with, you can always get up and move. It doesn't matter. You you never fall, and you are never disadvantaged, and you never lose a battle. You win always. Even battles that God says get up, walk away. It means He's going to fight the battle for you. You walk away, you know, you don't talk back, you don't say anything, you just walk away. And then you hear stories of how of God's recompense upon those people. That's what I'm trying to say. So back to our reading. The heavy stone in my heart had disappeared, replaced by a growing softness within me. Yet on the outside, I could sense a newfound toughness. It was as if I had discovered a purpose, and that fueled my determination to keep praying in tongues. Days passed, and I had another significant dream. In this dream, I was reunited with an old friend from Varsity with whom I had a fallout and we lost contact. I no longer even had their phone number. Surprisingly, in the dream, this person handed me a sum of 800,000 naira. I recognized this as divine direction. So although I no longer had their contact information, I managed to reach out through their social media accounts. After some time, they responded and we exchanged phone numbers. During our conversation, I mustered the courage to make an unusual plea for funds, explaining my circumstances and the need to relocate. It was the first time that I would ever ask for financial help. Well, they promised to consider my request, and after a few days, they replied, offering me 700,000 naira. However, recalling my dream and the direction that I had received, I asked if they could increase the amount to 800,000 naira. Surprisingly, they agreed without hesitation. It was an incredible turn of events, and that marked my second miracle during those challenging times. At this stage, I found myself unable to stop speaking in tongues. I persisted until the money miraculously appeared in my account. With the phone secured, I made arrangements to store my belongings and embarked on a flight with my mom and my two children to the new mission location, like I told you, which was a predominantly Indian community. The city greeted us late at night, and unfortunately, the house that I had initially arranged for turned out to be in an unfavorable neighborhood. So we decided to abandon that option and we spent the night at a hotel instead. Our Uber driver was a kind and gracious elderly Indian man. He offered to help me find a suitable house the next day. However, that very night, an unexpected incident occurred. Do you know? Someone broke into our hotel room, stole all my documents. Unaware of the intrusion, I hesitated to report the matter to the hotel's reception. Considering the hotel's prestigious status, yet one of the managers seemed to sense my distress. As I paced the floors the next morning, he approached me and asked me if I was searching for something, to which I replied affirmatively. Remarkably, he produced my missing documents. It was a true testimony that nothing, not even the money, like the change that I had put inside my wallet, nothing was missing. Nothing was stolen. The thief who was a former staff member had nearly been caught and he hastily left my room, dropping the folder in the lobby. This incident marked the third miraculous testimony as everything was restored to me. The journey to this new mission location seemed to be guided by divine interventions, granting me reassurance and hope in the face of adversity. At 8 a.m., time was ticking, and I had until 11 a.m. to secure a house and check out of the hotel to avoid additional charges. The Uber driver from the previous night and I set out on our house hunting mission. Throughout the journey, I continued to pray in tongues. Miraculously, we eventually found a suitable house. By 10:30 a.m. I rushed back to the hotel, checked out, gathered by family. We eagerly waited outside the agency for the landlord to arrive and run a credit check on me. Finally at 4 p.m., we signed the necessary documents, received the keys to our new one and a half bedroom apartment in Morningside Durban City Center. It was an unprecedented experience in house hunting to find an ideal apartment in a desirable location within just a few hours. This was marking the third major miracle. Amongst these major miracles were numerous other smaller miracles that happened along the way, just too many to mention. All these miracles, along with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, ultimately led me back to Nigeria to start a church. It was in the midst of my most difficult circumstances that God revealed a message for the world through me. He did not allow me to wallow in sorrow and self-pity for too long. As I became busy with the kingdom, my heart began to heal. Through studying the scriptures and increasing my prayer times, I built resilience and transitioned from a state of brokenheartedness to a healed state. This journey taught me a crucial lesson. Prolonged periods of praying in tongues have the power to heal a broken heart, regardless of the cost. Whether it be the loss of a job, money, business, home, or the pain caused by divorce, the loss of a spouse, or the departure of a loved one. There exists an inherent mechanism within prayer that helps one grow beyond the state of brokenness, offering hope and assurance that everything will eventually be alright. In the New Testament, Jesus quotes a verse of scripture from the book of Isaiah, highlighting his mission and purpose on earth. This event takes place after Jesus had been tempted by the devil and returned from the wilderness, having fasted for 40 days. Jesus is now in the synagogue where he is allowed to read from the Torah. Without hesitation, he finds the prophetic word that directly pertains to his ministry. Luke chapter 4 from verse 17 to 16 records, and there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he had anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He had sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Jesus recognized that he was anointed with the Holy Spirit and power. And this anointing encapsulates the power to accomplish the following things. What does the anointing do? One, enable him to preach the gospel, two, heal the brokenhearted. That was the second thing after preaching the gospel. Three, delivering the captives. Four, restoring sight of the blind. Five, offering relief to the wounded. Six, declaring the everlasting jubilee. What he's saying is that this is the work of the Holy Spirit in your life to enable you, to support you, to preach the gospel, to heal the brokenhearted, or to heal you of brokenheartedness. After reading the scriptures, Jesus closes the book and returns it to the minister. All eyes in the synagogue are fixed on him. He then boldly proclaims that the prophecy is fulfilled that day, right before their very ears. This moment marked the beginning of Jesus' public ministry where he set forth to fulfill his divine mission, bringing hope, healing, and freedom to those in need. In our world of hardship and heart age, countless individuals were all facing the pain of brokenheartedness due to various challenges like, you know, failed relationships, job losses, the death of loved ones, emotional traumas everywhere. However, there is hope in the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit that you received when you believed is the very comforting presence that heals every broken heart and offers guidance when you feel lost and alone. One way for you to tap into this divine power is through praying in tongues. I have learned from experience that the gift of tongues sets in motion all other latent spiritual gifts within you. Before I started praying in tongues, I was a pastor, but I was not ministering with the power that I've been ministering. Over the years, the more I pray in tongues, the more I increase. Do you see? I was a pastor, I was already preaching, you know, I was already laying hands on the sick and doing ministry, you know. But the more I pray in tongues, the more other spiritual gifts came out of me. All right. As you pray in tongues, you would discover hidden talents and untapped resources like writing for me, like preaching, like resilience. You know, so much more. It could be art for you, it could be singing, it could be playing an instrument, it could be so many things, all right? It's a transformative process that helps you know yourself better. You know, this this vessel called you, when you became born again, you are one spirit with God. You are such a special person. Even you don't know who you are. So for you to be able to tap into, for you to be able to know this person that you are, you need to pray in tongues. I'm telling you, there's no other way. You pray in tongues, you discover you, you discover who God made you to be, you discover what you can do, you discover who you are and what you have. Glory to God. If you find yourself with a broken heart, take comfort in knowing that God loves you deeply, as expressed throughout scripture. Psalm 34, verse 18 says, The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, he rescues those whose spirits are crushed. Isaiah chapter 41, verse verse 10 says, Do not fear, for I am with you, do not be dismayed, for I am your God. Psalm 147, verse 3 says, He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Even when life feels overwhelming, remember that God is always with you and within you through the Holy Ghost. The third person of the Trinity is God Himself, and His miraculous power is at your disposal. As I'm reading this, it looks as if I'm just reading to you, but I'm telling you, I feel a very strong anointing of the Holy Ghost. Praying in tongues allows you to assess this divine power swiftly and effectively. So use this remarkable gift wisely and frequently and strive to increase your usage of this gift and watch how it will transform your life with miracles. Let me pray for you. Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray for anyone and everyone under the sound of my voice. Lord, I pray, Father, rest upon them, overshadow them. Let your power rest upon them. For anyone who is desirous of speaking in tongues, Father, in the name of Jesus, let them receive. Let them receive. I pray for you in the name of Jesus. Let the Holy Spirit come upon you. Let the power of the Most High overshadow you in the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus. I want you to know that you have the Holy Spirit, but you have to be the one to open your mouth and pray in tongues. As I prayed for you right now, you could already feel words, strange words, bubbling out of you, and you feel like saying it. You need to open your mouth and say it. There are many people that have the anointing of the Holy Spirit and they refuse to speak because they feel like it's just babbling or they feel like it's just is gibberish. No, it's not. Okay, it's not, it's a very powerful language, but you have to lend your members to speak. You have to open your mouth and speak. So as I'm praying for you right now, I'm going to pray in tongues. Briefly, as I pray in tongues, you will feel the words bubbling in you, and I want you to join me just for a few minutes for you to practice this thing. And then once you're done listening to DRY Salvation, practice it some more. You know, practice it some more and practice it some more. Okay. Re kabakezu di akasuning ungo stadicatulobo sikibo sanindo sata. Rukiba ikeba zu kaze dani ingo two shadabakajaba. Ruka badibaseku shakate de ningayaba. Munge shaka talaba. There's somebody that you're you're listening to me right now. You're saying to yourself, you're saying, you're saying to God, you're asking God, Lord bless me, Lord bless me. God is saying, You are already blessed. I have already blessed you. I have already blessed you. And the instruction is very simple. From today till the next seven days, this is going to be your confession. You're going to say, I am blessed. I am blessed. I am blessed every single moment of the day from now to the next seven days. And watch as things begin to turn around for your good. And do not speak anything to the contrary. Stay on this word, I am blessed. I am blessed. I am blessed. I am blessed. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for your word. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for your word. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for your word. Just aside, did you know that the word blessed is actually from the word marked by blood, blood search? You know, marked by blood. That's the original, that's the etymology behind it. Is that it means marked by blood or blood stained, blood search. All right. So it means marked by blood. When Jesus died for you, that is when you became marked by blood. You accepted a sacrifice. That is a covenant. You are marked by blood. That's what you'll say when you say, I am blessed. I am blessed. I am blessed. So say that the whole of this week till the end of the week and see what the Lord will do for you. Glory to God. Father, we thank you. Thank you for your blessings in the mighty name of Jesus. Thank you, Holy Spirit, in Jesus' name. Thank you, everyone, for listening. Thank you again, once again, our supporters. And if you would like to support this show, click the link in the show notes. The support, you see the link, support, click it, and it will take take you to the payment platform.