Why Gifted, Called Women Still Carry Unhealed Wounds | Samantha Williams

Episode 7: Why Gifted, Called Women Still Carry Unhealed Wounds 

Featuring Samantha Williams

What happens when a gifted, called, anointed woman leads from a wounded place instead of a healed one?

 In Episode 7, host Stacy Jo sits down with Apostle Samantha Williams — international speaker, transformational coach, pastor of over 16 years, co-founder of Soul Harvest Creative Praise Ministries and SWIM LLC, and member of the ACBW Vision and Leadership Advisory Council — for a conversation about inner healing, identity, and what it truly means to lead from a whole place.

Samantha shares the pattern she kept seeing in the lives of powerful women in ministry and leadership — women who could preach, teach, and prophesy, but who were still operating from unresolved wounds. She also gets deeply personal, sharing her own journey of forgiving a father who abandoned her, the moment she finally released it to God, and what happened when she led him to Christ in his living room — just months before he had a brain aneurysm and never woke up again.

In this episode:

- Why gifted, called women can still be operating from a deeply wounded place without recognizing it

- The signs that a leader is leading from a wound rather than from wholeness

- The difference between forgiving from your head and forgiving from your heart — and how to close that 18-inch gap

- Why identity in Christ is the foundation that determines your destiny

- Practical steps every woman can take right now to begin her inner healing journey including Samantha's powerful letter-writing exercise

- How to access Samantha's free inner healing guide

Key Scriptures: Psalm 51:10 | Proverbs 4:23 | 2 Corinthians 5:17 | 1 Peter 5:7

About Samantha Williams:

Apostle Samantha Williams is the co-founder of Soul Harvest Creative Praise Ministries and SWIM LLC — Samantha Williams International Ministries. She has served in ministry for over 30 years, pastored for over 16 years, and ministers internationally in Kenya, Ghana, the Virgin Islands, and beyond. She is the author of the children's book Jules' Treasure Hunt and founder of the Power and Unity Prayer Campaign.

Free Inner Healing Guide:

Find Samantha on Facebook at Samantha Williams Ministries to access her free inner healing guide — a prescription for women walking through a broken or wounded heart.

Connect with Samantha:

Facebook: Samantha Williams Ministries

Instagram: @samanthawilliams_create

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This episode is for the woman who loves God, is serving faithfully, and still has something unresolved underneath. You were not called to lead from a wound. You were called to lead from wholeness.

Your identity will determine your destiny.

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Transcript

Welcome to the Podcast

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Welcome to Kingdom Leadership, the podcast for women pursuing Kingdom purpose with faith and intention. This is a space for clarity, encouragement, and conviction. It's a place to pause, refocus, and realign your leadership with what God is asking of you. Whether you're leading in business, ministry, your home, or your community, this podcast is here to remind you that your calling is intentional. Your obedience matters, and your leadership is meant to be aligned with God, not carried in your own strength. I'm your host, Stacey Joe, and together we are leaning into leadership that is whole, obedient, and rooted in purpose. Let's get started.

Meet Samantha Williams

SPEAKER_02 1:06

She is on our advisory council for the Association of Christian Business Women. And I think you will love her as much as I love her. Her messages are so deeply aligned with everything that we've been building together over the first few weeks. So without further ado, I'm going to introduce my friend and my sister, Samantha Williams. And I'm going to read you her bio and then we're going to just jump into this. Samantha Williams is a visionary and co-founder of Soul Harvest Creative Praise Ministries in Lauder Hill, Florida, and SWIM LLC, which stands for Samantha Williams International Ministries. She is an international speaker, teacher, leadership, and transformational coach, mentor, author, and creative. She's a member of the Epic Global Network, which is the Elect Ladies Network and the I Am Hope Foundation, where she ministers in places like Kenya, Gana, and the Virgin Islands. Apostle Williams has served faithfully in many facets of ministry for over 30 years and has pastored for over 16 years. She has equipped agents of change during the Good Morning Agents podcast, which she ran consecutively for over seven years. She coaches and mentors emerging women leaders and entrepreneurs, helping them overcome the obstacles that will hinder their progress for success in life, in ministry, and in business. She is the founder of the Power and Unity Prayer Campaign, which rallies the body of Christ, city officials, and community partners to unite and ignite strategic partnerships for city and statewide transformation. Through this initiative, Apostle Williams has authored the Power and Unity Prayer Evangelism Systems, which offer a strategic approach to intercession and evangelism by mobilizing intercessory teams for training and deployment. Lastly, she also equips little agents as the author of the children's book, Jules Treasure Hunt, which teaches children to embark on an endeavor to discover their value and identity through Jesus Christ. Apostle Williams works alongside her husband of 34 years, Pastor Kevin Williams. They have three adult children and two grandchildren. Samantha, welcome to the Kingdom Lead Horship Podcast. I am so excited to have you here today.

SPEAKER_03 3:38

Thank you, Stacey. Wow. Thank you for that. Thank you for that. Welcome. And I'm so honored to be able to be with you on today. Love you.

SPEAKER_02 3:47

I love you, girl. And I just want to jump in because I want to hear all the things. And I have some questions for you to kind of sum up who you are, what you do, how you help others, because you really do bring transformation to women's lives.

Why Women Need Healing

SPEAKER_02 4:09

So I I would love to know what first led you into helping women heal and rebuild their lives, because essentially that's that's what you're doing.

SPEAKER_03 4:18

Absolutely. You know, what you you were reading all of that. Yes, I do so many things, right? We are we are we're gifted, right? God has given us so many different things, but what I found over the years, I kept seeing a pattern, you know, from coming up in ministry as a layman, growing up in discipleship and literally serving in every almost every capacity that you can think of in ministry. I kept seeing a pattern, a cycle with women over and over and over again. And it got to a point where I'm just like, Lord, what is going on here? You know, why is it that I'm seeing powerful women? I mean, women who are prayer warriors, women who can preach, they can teach, they can sing, dance. I mean, there's nothing that they can't do as far as ministry and serving. And I see women prophesying and they're speaking into women's lives, and they're also helping them reach breakthrough and all of these wonderful things, right? But I'm seeing a contradiction in their lives. I'm seeing a contradiction in how they respond to others in regards to like relationships, how they deal with conflict. I'm seeing just this passive-aggressive type of attitude, how they cope with things. I just begin to see women operating in a place of like manipulation, control, or they have these, you know, they begin to isolate themselves. And so I just saw this pattern and it began to bother me. And the Lord is like, listen, something that bothers you usually is something that I'm trying to get your attention on. And I begin to say, you know, Lord, I'm gonna, I'm gonna stop complaining about what I see, and I'm going to become a solutionist. I'm going to be the answer to the problem. And the Lord just, He's kind of given me an ability to just I have a very nurturing side in regards to just listening to women and you know, just hearing. And the Lord has just given me an ability to hear what they're saying, what they're not saying, and hearing, just kind of going beyond the surface to really hear what the heart is crying out for. And I just found that was what the way the Lord has graced me to be able to communicate with other women in a way that they trust me, because it's difficult to find people that you can trust, that you can be open with, that you feel safe with. And I just found that more and more people were coming to me. And they would come to me just for wisdom or to help them to figure out what to do about a situation. But then we would uncover things and it was all going right back to the soul or going right back to an issue in their heart, some sort of unresolved heart issue. And I'm like, okay, we've got to first deal with this unresolved heart issue first. Then when we deal with that, you're gonna find that you're gonna get some clarity to help you handle this particular situation. And so that was what I was seeing over and over again. And so I begin to say, okay, God, okay, let me just submit to what you're doing here because this is what's happening over and over again, and more women are coming and coming. And I'm like, okay, this is just this is what it is, you know. And then when you're going through your own stuff, not to get ahead, but you know, when you're going through your own issues and God is He's confronting you, He wants to bring a breakthrough in my life personally, so that I can then be able to help bring breakthrough into the lives of other women. So we want to do wonderful things, we want to do, you know, great exploits, but we have to have the capacity to do it. And how we show up matters. And and God wants us to be free. He wants us to come on, he wants that's what he wants for us. Come on. He saved you, right? He saved us, he saved you not just to save you, but he saved us so that we could do the things that he's called us to do. And he wants to bring transformation into your lives, he wants to bring healing into your life, deliverance, all of those things, purging us, I mean, confronting our giants, dealing with the pain of our past, and then all of the obstacles that you know that we are dealing with on a day-to-day basis, God wants to deal with those things. And sometimes you need someone to help you, to take you by the hand and to help you through that journey.

SPEAKER_02 8:46

Because I love to say free people, free people.

SPEAKER_03 8:49

Come on.

SPEAKER_02 8:50

When we're walking in freedom, when we have gone through it ourselves, when we have gone through the wilderness and we're in the promised land, and he is using us in the way that he wants us or using us in the way that he wants to use us. Yes, then we can help other people through those that wilderness that they're in because we've already been there. So tell me, there obviously there was a season where God had to heal you before he could

Wilderness Seasons and Layers

SPEAKER_02 9:22

truly use you. Can would you talk a little bit about that season for us?

SPEAKER_03 9:25

The AC. I would say a few, a few seasons, right? God takes us through their layers to this thing, right?

SPEAKER_00 9:32

Right. Sometimes we go through a few wildernesses, right?

SPEAKER_03 9:36

Ripping. I tell people that they think it's just one wilderness. It's like, no, he takes you through it. You go through wilderness season, and you come out into your promise, and then you enjoy, you enjoy that that you there's a time you enjoy that, and God wants to see how you steward it, you steward that season, and then it's like he takes you back, then you you gotta kind of go through another level. And so life is just about, you know, it's a journey and there are levels, you know. We never like really say you reach, you know, one because we're like working towards like this one mountaintop moment, and it's just not like that. It's just it's many.

SPEAKER_02 10:18

There's a lot of mountaintops and there's a lot of valleys through the whole journey, girl.

SPEAKER_03 10:22

I'm all six. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 10:25

It doesn't have been for me, anyhow. Let me let me speak in first person. There has been for me.

SPEAKER_03 10:31

And you know, and God, and the beautiful thing about the Lord, He's so good, He's so faithful. And God will link on us, like He allows us to go so far, and then we get to a point where we can't go any further. And the Lord is like, okay, I've allowed you to this point, and now you've got to deal with this in order for you to go to the next. And so I would say for me, initially, I was dealing, I did with a couple

Forgiving a Father

SPEAKER_03 10:56

of things. One thing I had I dealt with my own personal family issue with my father. I give that testimony quite often in regards to my father, how I grew up hating my dad because he left my mom and my sister and I. He abandoned us and he chose to raise someone else's children and neglect his own children, right? And so eventually my mother did remarry and I had a really great stepfather. Funny thing, my stepfather was wonderful to us. But then my stepsisters and brothers, they had unresolved issues with him because he was taking care of us. You see the cycle, how it just continues. And so growing up with my father like that, I really, really was angry with him. And I it got to a point where once I gave my life to Christ, you know, you know that you have to forgive. But there's a difference with forgiving from just the head, because I know I have to forgive, and forgiving from the heart.

unknown 11:53

Right.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

That 18 inches, that 18 inches is the hardest 18 inches ever.

SPEAKER_03 11:59

Come on. That's like I know I have to do it. I have to forgive you. Okay, fine, I forgive you. But it was there was a journey there, you know, from salvation, even unto, and I just have to tell all the listeners, you know, you can forgive. Because I forgave him. I think I was when I gave my life to Christ, I was 16. I forgave my father at 16. However, something would happen. You think you got over it, right? And then something would happen, and then you're triggered. You know, and that was the thing. My dad would say something and it would trigger me. And then the Holy Spirit, as years went on, this is years, because of course the Lord is He's He meets us where we are, you know, and I'm I'm a disciple. I'm a young, I'm young in the Lord, I'm growing in God. But then as we I get, you know, as I get older and I'm maturing, I'm ministering now to people. Like I'm serving in ministry. And so I just need everyone to know that you can still, you can forgive and you can still have the residue, you know, and God will use you, you know, He will use you. I was I was, you know, serving on the Yesher board and volunteering and doing Bible studies and Sunday school and just serving in all these various capacities, even to being ordained as a minister. I was still dealing with the residue of my father, you know, and so it wasn't until my father was, he was speaking to me about something, and all of a sudden he said something to me, and I got triggered again. But this time was different because this time I was aware. And I was really aware of it. And the Holy Spirit was saying, you've got to deal with this. And then we act like we don't know what the Holy Spirit's talking about. Because I'm like, what are you talking about, Lord? Like, I'm fine, I'm good. And this is what we do is women, I'm good, I'm fine. It's like, no, that's that's your passive, that's passive aggression talking because I'm acting like I'm good, but I'm really not good. You know, it's like you have to be honest with yourself. And I would tell everyone the first step is honesty with yourself and taking accountability for where you really are. And yes, I still have an issue with you. You know, and so the Holy Spirit was like, you've got to deal with this. And I finally was like, okay, I've got to, I've got to take this to you. You know, I've got to relinquish this over to you, Lord. I had to come to a place where I accepted my dad for just who he was in the moment. And recognizing that he doesn't know the Lord, he doesn't know the Lord. That's that's one thing. If we understand that, many times we want things from people that they just don't have the capacity to give you. And what I wanted from him, he just didn't have it to give. And I just had to accept that this is who he is, this is who I'm dealing with. And I have to love him anyway, you know, and I have to give his weak the areas in him. I have to just relinquish that over to God, and I have to forgive him. Sometimes when you're you're you're so angry, you and you're trying to hold, you're holding on to that residue, you feel empowered sometimes. It's just like this empowerment to feel, you know, I'm angry with you. And that anger, I don't know, you feel justified in it. You feel justified in it, and when you go back and you start ruminating on just all those things, they come back, flooding back. I forgave, but the memories will flood back. And I had to come to the acceptance of that. And truly, the Lord says, either you're gonna give this to me, I need you to give this over to me, and I need you to trust me. And so when I just said, okay, I'm just gonna relinquish this over to you, Lord, giving my father over to you, the Lord opened up an opportunity for me to be able to talk with my dad on a one-on-one. He invited me to his apartment and I went. I didn't want to go initially, but the Holy Spirit said, go. And when I went there, we had a moment to make a long story short. We just we talked for the first time, like really talked. And he began to share with me why he did what he did. And it really helped me to see him in a whole different light. And I would say one of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the gift of our story. They don't, we try to hold things thinking we're protecting them. And really, we need to just be forthright and tell them about our struggles and where we are. And I think we would be surprised that our children will be more understanding, you know, than we than we think. You know, and when he told that to me, it helped me to understand him a lot better. And we cried. He, you know, he, you know, he asked me to forgive him. And and that was beautiful for me. Everybody won't get that, right? Everybody won't get that, and you have to be okay if you don't get that. But I was able to get that. And in having that moment with him, we reconciled that that afternoon. Now, the beautiful thing, that's not even the the beautiful thing, Stacy, was that my father gave his life to Christ that afternoon with me and him in the living room. I led my father to Christ. And can I just tell you that changed my whole life, that experience, because what I was living, I was living this reality of forgiveness has there's so much power in forgiveness. You know, if we would just have the courage to do it, we don't know what God has in store on the other side of it. And so I say there's so much power on the other side of forgiveness, because I'm telling you, who would have known? Who would have thought that the daughter, the baby girl who couldn't stand you, didn't want to have anything to do with you. Now I love you. It's just amazing how feelings, emotions, all of a sudden now I have this rush of love for my father, but it was the love of Christ. It was the love of Christ and loving him just in seeing him for who, just seeing him as a flawed person, right? How we all are flawed in our own ways. But to really see him at just he was a flawed individual and he tried, you know, he did the best he could, and it wasn't enough for me, you know, but I understood it and I relinquished it to the Lord and allowed the Lord to feel empty places in my heart that were that I needed from my father, but I he didn't have the capacity. And so where am I gonna go? You have to look to God to fill the void, to fill those empty places. And the Holy Spirit will do that. He will fill you, he will fill every gap, you know, every need. He's there to fill it and to bring healing and wholeness and to see my dad saved, not knowing that a few months after that he would have a brain aneurysm and go into a coma and not wake up again.

unknown 18:49

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 18:50

So his blood would have been on my the Lord says, I chose you. So there's purpose on the other side of forgiveness.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

Come on.

SPEAKER_03 18:57

You know, there's purpose, you know, and so we just never know what God wants to do. So forgiveness is powerful, and that was the the step towards really focusing on the power of forgiveness, and that was something that many people struggle with, and helping people walk through the journey of knowing how to forgive, how to let go. That is is something that I'm really, really passionate about and helping women to walk through that journey.

SPEAKER_02 19:24

And so that was that was the big yeah, that's so good and it's so needed because I see so many women, whether it's their father or their mother, but they have deep wounds from childhood from one parent or the other. So I think that that is so good, Samantha, to hear that story from you.

Leading From Wholeness

SPEAKER_02 19:46

But let me ask you when women lead from that wounded place instead of the healed places, you know, what's your opinion on that? What happens when women lead from the wound instead from of being healed?

SPEAKER_03 20:02

A lot of things happen when you lead from a wounded place versus leading from a healed place. You know, this is again why I'm so passionate about what I do, because how we show up matters. And when you're leading, when you think about leading, you have other people who are who are watching your example. You know, Paul says, follow me as I follow Christ. And so, as leaders, if you're not leading anybody, you have to think about leadership as servanthood, right? And it's not about you, it's about Christ, it's about the souls. God loves his people. And so for us who are in a place where we are mentoring people, being an example, you're leading whether you know it or not, you know, and people are watching your example. And so you want to make sure that you are leading from a whole place. And so when you're not leading from that whole place, you will find yourself with all of these things will be repetitive, toxicity. You know, you won't, you won't even rick or recognize it or realize it, but you operate from a place of sabotage, you know, distrust, isolating yourself, you know, we don't know how to deal with conflict resolution. You know, when we when we're faced with conflict, we immediately misinterpret things, we misinterpret motives, we misinterpret what people are saying because we have a filter, our filter is clogged up. I like to say, our filter, you know, the Bible says that we are to guard our hearts because out of it, you know, flow the abundance of the abundance of our hearts. Amen. We thank God for our hearts, but everything flows from it. Everything flows from it. And so when it's not in a healthy place, then all of our I don't know, let's use the word boogers, but all shows like it's just it's on display. It's all on display and it doesn't Good. It will cause people, it'll push people away. You know, you're gonna always be in conflict. You watch people who are always blaming other people. It's like you always have an issue with people, them, it's always their fault, it's always them. And it's like, are you not seeing a pattern that maybe it could be you? It could be, you know, you we are literally a living, walking, breathing environment. And so when you walk into a room, you're bringing the kingdom with you, right? You're bringing the kingdom with you, but you're also bringing all the other stuff with you too. Like the kingdom, yes, we are we're saved, Holy Spirit dwells within us, but then we're on a journey of discipleship. We're on a journey of the Lord confronting our issues, confronting our past. And so a lot of people know the Lord as Savior, but they don't know him as Lord. People aren't surrendered to Christ, you know, and then after you surrender your life to him, you're talking about surrendering everything to him. And again, that's a journey. And just, I just need people to understand that because we dealt with a lot of church hurt. And that's just that comes with the territory because we're all flawed beings. And until the Lord does a work on us, until we all are coming into this place of being perfected in Christ, we're not gonna always show up in the way that we should. But but God has given us the ability to be sensitive and to be discerning and to recognize ourselves. The Holy Spirit comes to us to confront those areas in our lives. If we, if we would just be sensitive and hear him, he begins to show us this needs to be dealt with, this needs to be dealt with. You can't continue in this way. And this is where we need to pay attention and listen and seek him about it. And if if necessary, reach out to find those in the body of Christ who have been graced to help them through the journey so that they're not bleeding on people. You know, you lead and bleed, and we don't want you bleeding on people. You know, we want you to be healed, want you to be whole. And yes, it's not gonna come overnight, but you know, making that be intentional. You know, God is peeling us layer by layer, and eventually we'll we'll get there.

Practical Healing Steps

SPEAKER_02 24:14

So what practical things can women do right now to begin healing and walking boldly in their purpose and their calling?

SPEAKER_03 24:24

Yeah, I love that. Some practical things I think women can do in the interim. I love journaling. I think journaling is really powerful, but it has to be directed, focused properly. And not just about just writing, you know, just writing out anything. It it really has to be focused. And first of all, asking Holy Spirit in prayer, prayerfully, asking the Holy Spirit to begin to, you know, search my heart. Scripture tells us, Lord, created me a clean heart, you know, renew a right spirit within me. Lord, give me an assessment of me and show me the areas in me that need to be, you know, need to be honed, need to be refined. Show me the areas that need to be purged. You know, yeah, I want you to, you know, uproot the scripture that talks about uprooting um the mulberry. You can speak to the mulberry tree and command it to be uprooted and cast it into the sea. And that scripture is really speaking to the heart, it's speaking to issues that are rooted, like bitter, bitterness as a bitter root, right? We can uproot that in Jesus' name, you know, and really, really understanding what the word has to say about who you are, you know, and whose you are. And so I would say prayerfully ask the Holy Spirit to begin to show you, reveal to you anything that would hinder you, that's hindering your progress, anything that you need to deal with, and then listen. Listen. And as you listen, start writing, writing those things down and really begin to, you know, put those things before the Lord, fasting and and in your writing, begin to deal with unforgiveness or the areas that you're where you feel like are unresolved with in relationships or things that you feel like, because at the end of the day, anytime we go back, it's usually there's always, I don't care what anybody says, there's always some issue with unforgiveness somewhere down somewhere. There's some unforgiveness there, maybe there's some rejection there. These are things I'm seeing all the time. There's some we deal with abandonment issues there, you know, things of that nature, and begin to write a letter. I do this for all my clients. I'm giving everybody a freebie here. This is what I do for all my clients. I tell them to write a letter. Some people write letters, but this is really intentional. And it's important for you to release because as women, we hold so many things in and we suppress a lot of things, right? And so we need to get rid of the emotions. Like, you know, the writing and the journaling helps us to release.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

So who do we write the letter to? To ourselves or to ourselves. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 27:07

Nah, you can be also one of the people you write your letter to. You can write a letter to yourself, you can write a letter to God, you can write a letter to whoever offended you, whoever hurt you, whoever you need to write a letter to, whoever you need to you need to say and speak. Because sometimes, like for me, I spoke to my father, but some people won't ever be able to speak to the person. So you need a release. And so write out everything you want to say. What do you want to say to them? Write it all out. Get it out of your body. Because all of these things affect not only affects us spiritually, but it affects us physically as well. And so we want to just use it as a place where you can cry, you can release, and you can begin to just relinquish it. Once you've written it all out, now you can begin to take that and you can begin to offer it to the Lord and where He tells us to cast our cares upon him because he cares for us, Lord. And so, Lord, you see my heart, you see that it was broken, but Lord, you came to heal the broken heart and to bind up our wounds. And so we we want to give him something, give him something that he can begin to work with. And I think that's a great start and something practical that you can do to help you on your journey.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

I think that's a great start. And I can remember doing that years ago. I I I don't know ever know what happened to the things I wrote out. I have to think back now. I hope they didn't get into the wrong hands. But I can remember that being such a great, great release for me, especially during those times where I was just emotionally feeling the struggle and the unforgiveness and the pain of the past and yeah. So our past can affect our identity because many women will take their identity from the past, not from who God says they are, but from their pain that they walked through, from their situations, from their experiences.

Identity Shapes Destiny

SPEAKER_02 29:07

So if every woman listening today truly understood who she was in Christ, how do you think that would change the way she leads?

SPEAKER_03 29:18

Listen, your identity will determine your destiny. That is what I say. And if you don't know who you are, I know it doesn't sound, you know, it doesn't sound all popular or it's not, but identity is something that I am super passionate about. Women need to know who they are in Christ. It starts with identity, really. You got to know. You've got to know that he has called you for such a time as this, that you're not an accident, right? You've got to know that you are an heir and a joint heir with Christ Jesus. Like that is it, it actually begins to just empower me. Like I get excited, you know, and I want women to know that everything that the enemy said that you are. This is why the Bible calls him the accuser of the brethren, or he's, you know, he's a liar, the father of lies, because that's what he does. And he does this constantly to wear you down and to make you feel worthless. Most of our women deal with feelings of worth, of not of worthlessness. And that again is an attributed with your identity, knowing who you are in Christ. Because when you know what he calls you, it's not about what they called you. Even what you say about you, it doesn't, it's not, it's that doesn't matter. All that matters is what God says about you, who you are, and that you're not disqualified. We'll we, you know, we would try to disqualify ourselves based off of our past and what we've gone through. But again, when you have accepted Christ, you become a new creature. Old things have passed away, and behold, all things now have become new. And so you have to walk in the newness, you have to adopt that. That is your new identity. That is who you are. You are a new creature in Christ. Old things have passed away, and now the whole, all things have become new. And that is what I will keep on. And women need to be like, we need that being, we need to be reminded of that like constantly to have that on rotation because you have to, you know, clean out the filter. If you got to clean out the filter, because again, this is what happens. We are filtering everything that we hear, everything that we see in life. We're filtering that through the past or filtering that through an old identity. And we have to then remember that no, I am walking in the new identity that Christ has paid a high price for. He says that he has justified me and he has glorified me. And then I am seated in the heavenly realms with him. And so listen, I'm a I'm an heir, I'm a king, right? I come on, I'm we are kings, we are priests, just all of those things when women really come into the revelation of that. And so you have to then begin to understand what is a king? What does that mean, right? It's your ruling and what is a priest. That means that we are worshipers. You know, we we bring offerings, spiritual offerings to the Lord. And so the more you grow in your knowledge of knowing all of these things that I'm telling you that you are, but you have to know them for yourself. And when you begin to really get a revelation of that, wow, this is who I am, man. Listen, there's a level of confidence that will begin to just overtake you, you know, and it's not, it's not arrogance because you know it's not you in and of yourself, you know that it's only God that did it. But so you give him all the glory and all the honor and all the praise. You know, so leading from knowing your identity in Christ, there's no stopping you. You will be able to plow through every and anything, you will latch on with your faith and you won't let go, you know, and so identity is so important. And I pray that you know, women will continue to see what God says about you and walk in that truth because you shall know the truth and it's gonna set you free.

SPEAKER_02 33:10

Whoo, sister, that is a word. That is a word. Come on, from the word. So yes, sir.

SPEAKER_03 33:17

Yes, ma'am.

Connect With Samantha

SPEAKER_02 33:19

Before I let you go, you know, we need to know where can women listening find you? Where can they follow your work? Where can they connect with what you're building through Samantha Williams Ministries?

SPEAKER_03 33:32

Oh, wonderful. Well, I have a lot of social media platforms that they can they can search me on Facebook at Samantha Williams Ministries. I also have Samantha Williams, but there's a lot of Samantha Williams. But if you if you find Samantha Williams Ministries, go there. And in my bio, there is a link there that all of those who are watching, you can get a free inner healing guide that we offer. Yes, an inner healing guide.

SPEAKER_02 34:00

Oh, I love inner healing.

SPEAKER_03 34:01

If I'm on, and so it's a prescription. I get I call it a prescription for those who are dealing with a broken heart, a wounded heart. It's really going to be very helpful with helping you on your inner healing journey. And they can also find me on Instagram at Samantha Williams underscore create. And yes, that one more time.

SPEAKER_02 34:23

We're gonna put it in the show notes. We'll put all of this in the show notes, but repeat that one one more time.

SPEAKER_03 34:28

Sure. It's Samantha Williams underscore create.

unknown 34:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 34:34

Okay, and they can inbox me emerge, and we would love to be able to set up a discovery call to talk with you and just to see if our eMERGE program would be something that would be helpful for them as well. We'd love to help them on their journey.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

Excellent.

SPEAKER_03 34:52

Do the hard work together.

SPEAKER_02 34:54

Yes, excellent. Wow.

Prayer Over Listeners

SPEAKER_02 34:57

You know, I think I didn't put this in our script, but I would love for you to pray over the women that are hearing this right now. Would you do that for us?

SPEAKER_03 35:06

It would be my pleasure. Thank you, Lord. Oh God, we just thank you. We bless you, oh Lord, for this wonderful podcast. Oh God. We thank you for it going out to all the world, Lord, that women all over this world, Father God, will be blessed. Father, their lives will be changed and transformed. We thank you for the listeners listening, Father, to this session on today, Lord, and that you would begin to touch their hearts, oh God, and begin to show them, Lord, begin to reveal the areas in their lives, God, that need to be dealt with, Lord. Father, we thank you, God, that you come, Lord, to conquer, Lord, and to destroy every giant, God, in our lives, Lord, so that we can, Father, take dominion, so that we can, Lord, God, walk in the fullness and in the promise that you have predestined for our lives. Lord, we thank you, Father, that you've given us all things that pertain to life and godliness. And so our prayer for these beautiful women, Lord, is that they would discover, that they would come to know all of the promises that you have given unto them, that you have called us, Lord, to be, God, healed and whole and walking in freedom so that we can go forth and do great exploits for the kingdom of God, so that we could have the capacity, Lord, Father God, to be able to accomplish everything that you have placed on our heart. And our prayer, Lord, is that your these women, Father, would be consistent, that they would stay the course, that they will be steadfast and immovable, that they will continue to abound in the work of the Lord, knowing that their work is not in vain, oh Lord, that they will not grow weary in their well-doing, oh Father. For if they faint not, they're going to reap in due season. And so, Father, we thank you and praise you, oh God, and we pray of special blessing over their lives, that they will walk in the fullness, that they will walk in total wholeness, oh God. We thank you for their healing, Lord. We thank you that they're walking, Father, in their divine purpose, Lord. We thank you, Father God, that they that they know how to steward that which you had given them, oh God. And that, Lord, that they would steward well, Father, that they would go forth, God, and that they would do great things, Lord God, for the kingdom of God. And Father, we just thank you. We pray a special blessing over their lives, and we declare, God, that they shall, Father God, they shall do it, they shall accomplish it, they shall finish it, and they shall finish strong. And Lord, we just give you all the praise for it. We thank you in Jesus' mighty name. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 37:40

Amen.

Final Encouragement and Outro

SPEAKER_02 37:42

Sister, thank you. Thank God for your vulnerability, for your wisdom, especially for your willingness to pour into the women in our community. What you're doing through your ministry is truly kingdom work. And I'm so grateful that our paths have crossed and that you are part of the Vision and Leadership Advisory Council for ACBW. And to everyone listening, I hope that what you heard today landed somewhere real within you. Because everything Samantha shared, the healing, the identity, that's not just her message. That's the heartbeat of kingdom leadership. And that is what this entire podcast is built around. You weren't called to lead from a wounded place, you were called to lead from a healed, whole, commissioned place. And if you're not there yet, that's okay. That's what this community is for. That's why we're here every week. And that is what God brings through women like Samantha into this environment. So the process is real, the healing is possible, and the fulfillment that God has for you is worth every step of the journey to get there.

SPEAKER_03 38:49

Amen.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

Thank you, Samantha. God bless you, sister. So grateful for you.

SPEAKER_03 38:56

Aw thank you so much for having me. God bless you guys. Love you.

SPEAKER_02 38:59

Love you all. God bless. Thank you for spending time with me on Kingdom Leadership. If today's conversation encouraged you or brought clarity, take a moment to reflect on what God highlighted for you. Trust Him even when the path isn't clear, because He is faithful to direct every step. New episodes of Kingdom Leadership are released every Monday, and I invite you to join me again as we continue pursuing Kingdom Purpose with faith and intention. Until next time, lead with wisdom, walk in obedience, and trust God with where He's leading you.