205. God’s Voice Provides our Identity with Donna Winship
Donna believed that she wasn’t smart enough, didn’t belong and didn’t fit in. She had lie-based thinking and was getting her identity from what she did, what people said about her and what she had. Growing up Jewish, she had a very strong tight community but only traditions and laws. She had a sense of guilt and shame and not a personal relationship with God. You will hear about her and her husband Jamie’s testimony when he was in law enforcement in DC, while she was a teacher living the American dream. Something was different with them: they listened to the voice of God. This unique and powerful episode will leave you yearning for more of a real intimate relationship with God for you, not anyone else. Like Moses, knowledge doesn’t change our life, an encounter does. God is calling us each to our burning bush moment, the Kairos moment for us to truly know who we are in Christ. Donna states that our being informs our doing. “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” ~Romans 12:1-2 “After the arrest of John, Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel of God. “The time is fulfilled,” He said, “and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe in the gospel!” ~Mark 1:14-15 Identity Exchange Website: https://www.identityexchange.com/ Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com Purchase the book Living Fearless by Jamie Winship: https://www.amazon.com/Living-Fearless-Exchanging-World-Liberating/dp/0800740297/ref=sr_1_1?crid=BP8NRBEO121Q&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MsNQ5SynCT5HYOQQ6mFcWmx8qNaYcQLD0qDP8TeCp3q5QKGMTTT4cwUCz5tHY69WT91XyQNwBU9SquAXWWxydu1HG6Wb4b3D8L_X7GM8OGH-qgy0bMtwGysX5cUlsQFm1ApnIieblyT4QCO0y4nsN6mJLMqnfhRVtBWTC5ssULMnCiZ0s8_A3X0rPgLnaRnOGhX4IV7qoGxT-EqDgWxKsVvpLCpQrC4uJjzmzu08o70.aJ1aRGU_QN3YhqixeIO0OjxX0kwwnMdF5Kk31VMJAa8&dib_tag=se&keywords=living+fearless+book&qid=1757347910&sprefix=living+fearless+book%2Caps%2C412&sr=8-1 Join my mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5 If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!
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204. New Beginnings | Making Room for God’s Blessings
Do you feel like there isn’t room for God’s blessings? You want them but it doesn’t seem like they can fit. This seems silly for a Christian desiring more of God, but sometimes we aren’t aware of what we don’t know. In this episode stepping back into podcasting after a 6 month break, Heidi will provide ministry and prayer. She will talk about how the power of the truth sets us free and how we can make room for God’s promises no matter our circumstances. Stay tuned for more episodes each week Monday morning! “The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former,” says the Lord of hosts. “And in this place I will give peace,” declares the Lord of hosts. ~ Haggai 2:9 (ESV) Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1 Join my mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5 If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!
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203. Endings | New Things | It’s About Jesus
Do you feel like God is doing a new thing in you? Have you felt like you’ve been in transition? I have been in a transition season this past year after selling my business and I am sensing God drawing me into His heart in a deeper way than I’ve ever been before. I am sensing that I need to lay down the podcast for a season until I have the green light again. Normally I am a big dreamer and have all sorts of ideas but right now I don’t have anything. I am trying to listen to God and what He has for me during this time. Maybe you are in the same place. I will walk through what we need to do during hard and awkward times of change, pruning, stretching and growth. You will experience encouragement and ministry in this episode as we explore what God is doing right now during this season of transition for many of us. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. ~Isaiah 43:19 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. ~John 15:2 For those whom the Lord loves He discipline. ~Hebrews 12:6 Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1 Join my mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5 If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!
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202. Seeing Angels and Demons with Micah Turnbo
Have you seen angels and demons? Do you sense things in the spirit? In this encouraging episode with Seer and Prophet Micah Turnbo, you will be drawn into the heart of God and a relationship with the Holy Spirit. As a child, Micah could see angels, demons and other spiritual creatures. This episode will dive into many great topics, including when to seek counseling even when you have spiritual gifts. Often people are diagnosed with mental illnesses when they have spiritual sensitivities and gifts that just need to used. Micah’s mom stewarded his gift well so he knew he had gifts. We aren’t wrong for feeling our intense feelings. We need to learn how to listen to the Holy Spirit, let God teach us and grow in discernment. And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’ But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. ~Matthew 13:14-17 Micah’s website: https://beholdwonder.com/about-micah/ Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!
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201. Addiction Is Not a Disease with Melissa Huray
Have you felt ashamed of your addiction? Do you want to experience God’s empowerment instead of judgement? Melissa Huray with an author and host of the Hope Report. She challenges our typical belief in addictions and shifts us to think of the radical hope of being free because of Jesus. Many think addictions are a disease but Melissa challenges us to see it as an attempt to solve a problem. In this episode you will hear about some of the controversial topics around addiction, deliverance, and mental health. Melissa believes that the medicalization of addiction keeps people trapped and that we have it forever. She experienced radical freedom from addiction but quickly realized her addiction was from trauma in her childhood, shame, image issues, self-esteem and panic attacks. We need to go after the root issues that cause the addiction, not medicate as a band-aid to the real problem. God wants us to feel empowered and free, not continually live in a place of shame for the rest of our life. “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” ~Ephesians 2:10 Melissa’s website: https://melissahuray.com/ To purchase Melissa’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Freedom-Breaking-Addiction-Strength/dp/1424567122?crid=3H5BS24FJDF0H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4ZRvHGAZF9hwnNRUp2fF65PuDIpvKUX9QUsXLvGcLxM.vthYAbBG9Si32MOV0D3O5hEZSLfLLOSjJaQT7TBH3Fo&dib_tag=se&keywords=melissa+hurray+radical+freedom&qid=1732289986&sprefix=melissa+hurray+radical+freedom%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-1-fkmr0 Heidi’s website: https://heidimortensonlmft.com/ If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!
Strong Tower Mental Health is an authentic and encouraging podcast hosted by Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Heidi Mortenson. Get ready for heaven to be unlocked in your soul with real life stories, skills, and amazing guests who will inspire you. Topics on this podcast include vulnerability, authenticity, how to have difficult conversations, keeping healthy boundaries with others, marriage, depression, anxiety, addiction, co-dependency and more. You will learn how to pull the gold from yourself and others, and walk in freedom no matter the circumstances surrounding you. Learn more at https://heidimortensonlmft.com/
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