Emotional Healing

In this episode, we explore the story of Hannah in 1 Samuel 1 and what it means to position your heart for emotional healing and breakthrough. Hannah experienced deep pain, comparison, and provocation, yet her turning point came when she chose to pour her soul out before God and shift her posture from despair to faith.

Many of us carry emotional wounds from past experiences, disappointments, or seasons where we felt overlooked or forgotten. These unresolved emotions can quietly impact our confidence, our creativity, and our ability to move forward in purpose.

This episode invites you to examine your emotional posture and begin the process of healing. When you align your heart with faith instead of frustration, you create space for clarity, growth, and forward movement. Emotional healing is not just personal, it is foundational for purpose, leadership, and the life you are called to build.

If you have ever struggled with comparison, discouragement, or emotional exhaustion, this conversation will help you reposition your heart, renew your mindset, and move forward with strength and intention.

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Hello, and welcome to the Women in Position Podcast. I am your host, Renee. This is the podcast where we anchor our identity and who God created us to be, develop our creative capacity, strengthen our faith, and position ourselves for increase in both freedom and finances, in family, just in all things our all things uh that's our lives, right? So our goal is to be positioned for prosperity, positioned for peace, position for just the good success that God has planned for us, that He has already predestined for us. So thank you so much for joining us for episode two of Women in Position. And today we are talking about Hannah. Our first episode was around uh focused on Sarah, and um, I mentioned that I did it wrote a devotional a couple of years ago or a few years, maybe three years ago now, when women get into position, and um, it is available on Amazon. Just search When Women Get Into Position by Renee Lee, and it's a 21-day devotional focused on a right heart posture for a righteous purpose. And so we're kind of going through, I'm using some of those stories in that devotional, um, which is really great. It has really great prompts and everything for you to really think through these women and how they were positioned to fulfill the purpose of God on their lives, and how you can actually position yourself in the way that they did, right? And so today we're talking about Hannah, and and basically we're talking about healing as being um being in position, like positioning yourself for healing, and then once you're healed, how that positions you um for the good success that you're seeking, for the desire that's in your heart that you can fulfill. So we'll call it emotional positioning, if you will. You can you can use that as well. But our scripture comes from of our scripture foundation is first Samuel chapter 1, verses 10 through 18. And I will read through this very briefly just to refresh your um in case you don't know the story, but and if you do, just to give you some refresher. Um, and it starts off in her deep anguish, Hannah prayed to the Lord weeping bitterly. Weeping bitter in her deep anguish. Now we're talking about healing, so pay attention to that. Her deep anguish, Hannah prayed to the Lord weeping bitterly, and she made a vow saying, Lord Almighty, if you will only look on your servant's misery, listen at that, misery, and remember me and not forget your servant, but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head. And she kept on praying to the Lord, and Eli observed her mouth. Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving, but her voice was not heard. This is the New International Version uh translation. Eli thought she was drunk. The prophet Eli, I mean, a priest Eli thought she was drunk, and said to her, How long are you going to stay drunk? Put away your wine. He actually thought she was drinking, but this is just how grieved she was, just how in pain she was. And she said to him, Not so, my lord. Hannah replied, I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer. I was pouring out my soul to the Lord. Do not take your servant for a wicked woman. I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief. Eli answered, Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of. She said, May your servant find favor in your eyes. Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast. So her position changed, her emotions changed. She felt the favor of God, and she moved forward differently because of her positioning had changed. She was weeping bitterly, she was anguished, she was hurt because she wanted to have a son. And the backstory, um, and I think I'll I'll just do do the backstory. So um, so today we are talking about emotional healing, and we're looking at the story of Hannah because Hannah teaches us something powerful about positioning your heart before you experience breakthrough. And I don't know about you if you're if you're a mother, or if you've ever been in pain, you've ever grieved a loss, or you you know, there there are times when all you can do is just cry out to God, and sometimes your mouth is moving, and even you can cry. I've cried to the point where I'm like holding my stomach and nothing is coming out, but yet it's a deep, deep, painful mourning that I'm experiencing, and um, and so I can definitely relate to Hannah, not in the fact that I was weeping because I was barren, but I was weeping because I was feeling um some a heavy weight, regardless of what that weight was at the time. I was feeling such a heavy weight, and because I couldn't change the situation, and it was bleeding my heart, if you will. So here's Hannah back Hannah's backstory. She was married to a man named Elkani, and he loved her so, so much. He loved her deeply, but there was a problem. She did not or could not actually have children, and in that culture, culture rather, baringness carried not only emotional pain, but social shame. So, to make matters worse, Elkani had another wife named Panina, and Panina had children, and the Bible says she provoked Hannah constantly. Imagine being in so much pain, and then somebody is just irritating you. You know, they're just irritating you. I don't know if you've ever experienced that. Um, so year after year, just imagine that. Imagine showing up to family gatherings, imagine holidays, imagine community celebrations, imagine every time you show up, someone reminds you of what you do not have. So Penina would mock her, she would taunt her, she provoked her. And the Bible says Hannah wept and would not eat. So she was like, I'm not, I'm not doing this. I I I gotta I gotta, I don't want this social shame, right? And she wanted to birth something, so this was not a one-day problem, mind you, because it says every year that they went, Panina would mock her, right? They would go up to the temple to worship, to pray. Um, so this was a long season, a long, a long, long season in her life. And so here's the turning point. Um, Hannah, she did something different. The scripture says she rose up and she went to the temple, she poured her soul out before the Lord. She may have prayed before, but this time she went with intention. Because she went with intention, she poured her soul out before the Lord, she prayed with such intensity that Eli the priest actually thought she was drunk. But Hannah said something powerful. She said, I have poured out my soul before the Lord, and after Eli spoke a blessing over her, something shifted. Now, listen carefully, her circumstances had not changed. No, no, she didn't she didn't just get pregnant all of a sudden, but the Bible says her countenance changed, which means her emotional posture shifted before her situation shifted. Now, did you hear that? Her emotional posture shifted before her situation shifted. It's just like saying that if you pray for something, you have to believe that you have received it, not that you will receive it, but that you have received it. And I believe Hannah, at that moment, when Eli spoke that blessing and told her to go and get up, he told her, uh, let me go back to the scripture. He said, Go in peace. And if you're going in peace, that means you're not going as you came, you're not going uh anguished, you're not going bitterly, you're not going full of misery, because she said, You know, Lord, if you will only look on your servant's misery, she was miserable, but Eli told her, Go in peace. So leave that anguish, leave that grief, leave that bitterness, go in peace, and may the God of Israel, this is the blessing, may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him. And I'm I'm saying to you today, may the God of Israel grant you the blessing that you have asked of him today. May the God of Israel grant you the may the great I am grant you the blessing. So go in peace today. Okay, so here's her emotional position. Here is it, it gets even better. So now this is where Hannah's story meets your life because emotional positioning matters. Healing, uh, being healed and being positioned for good success, being positioned for the prosperity and the peace that you want in life. This is where it matters. Your emotional state influences your decisions, and your decisions influence your actions, and your actions influence your outcomes. Hello, somebody. If you live in constant comparison, you will struggle to build to build anything meaningful if you do. If you're always looking at somebody else, because compass comparison will literally drain all of your creativity, it will call cause bitterness to come, and bitterness will drain your energy, it will cause resentment to come, and resentment will drain focus. You cannot be resentful and focused at the same time. So Hannah's breakthrough began when she repositioned her heart. So let me connect this to something practical. Many people want financial breakthrough. Raise your hands if you want financial breakthrough. Yes, and if you're watching this on YouTube, put in the chat. I want financial freedom. I know for me, I want financial freedom. So um, but financial growth requires emotional stability. If ever criticism discourages you, if every delay frustrates you, if every obstacle makes you want to quit, you will struggle to build anything that requires consistency. Business, hello, business requires emotional resilience, leadership requires emotional maturity, financial freedom requires long-term thinking, and long-term thinking requires emotional stability. You cannot stay focused if you're swaying back and forth. You just cannot. Okay? Now, here's an illustration. Think about Oprah Winfrey. She was fired from a television job early in her career. Imagine that, being told you're not fit for television. Now, she could have internalized that criticism, she could have accepted someone else's definition of her capacity, but instead, she repositioned emotionally. She continued to develop her voice, she continued to sharpen her skill, and eventually she built one of the most influential media platforms in the world. She's now a billionaire. Right? That did not happen because she avoided obstacles, it didn't happen because she compared herself. No, it happened because she refused to allow any uh emotional setbacks to stop her growth. And you know, people would talk about her a lot, like she was always, you know, not always in the tabloids, but you know, she struggled with her weight, and the tabloids just had a field day with that. But Oprah did not allow that to stop her, so she uh honed in on her on her creative capacity and she moved forward, moved forward, and now has just imagine how many people have worked for her, how many families her business idea fed, right? Or and is continuing to feed. So here's the creative capacity connection that I want you to see. Um this is this is something important to understand. Creative capacity flows best from a healed heart. Because if you do it from a heart where you're always comparing, comparing, like when your heart is constantly weighed down by comparison or resentment, it becomes difficult to see possibilities. But when your heart is anchored in faith, your mind becomes open to innovation. Hannah's prayer positioned her emotionally, and emotional positioning allowed her to conceive something powerful. Samuel would eventually become one of the most influential prophets in Israel's history. He's the one who anointed David to be king. So imagine that out of Hannah's pain came prophetic leadership for a nation. So let me give you something practical to do today. Ask yourself this question: Where am I emotionally stuck? Is it comparison? Is it disappointment? Is it resentment from something that happened years ago? Now ask a second question. How can I convert that pain into preparation? Because emotional maturity is not about pretending pain does not exist. It is about choosing faith despite the pain. And when you position your heart correctly, you position your future. So remember this in closing. Your identity determines your capacity, your emotional health, your healing strengthens your creativity because when you're healed, you position yourself to be creative. Your creativity creates value, and your value creates opportunity. So anchor yourself in your divine identity. Strengthen your faith daily, develop your creative capacity intentionally. Refine skills that create value. Never be afraid to keep learning skills. Always upgrade your skills because that increases your value to someone. So position yourself to increase in your freedom, in your finances, in prosperity. And if you want to go deeper, you can join us inside the Women in Position School on the school platform. That is where revelation becomes strategy and strategy becomes execution. Until next time, I encourage you to get into position. And we'll see you next time, right here on Women in Position Podcast episode three. Join us next week. Bye bye.