Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast · Heidi Mortenson, MA, LMFT

211. How to Hear God's Voice

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Heidi defines logos and rhema, then ties a personal 'you're a good mom' moment to rhema.

1. Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast episode 211 focuses on hearing God's voice and hearing the voice of Jesus. 2. Heidi Mortensen hosts as a licensed marriage and family therapist, and she frames the topic through Christian mental health, scripture, and daily discernment. 3. The episode asks whether God is speaking through dreams, visions, people, nature, children, and ordinary inner nudges. 4. Heidi anchors the teaching in John 10:27, where Jesus says, 'my sheep listen to my voice.' 5. She also cites John 16:13, saying the Spirit of truth 'will guide you into all truth.' 6. Heidi says the first obstacle is the lie that 'God doesn't hear from me' or 'God doesn't speak to me.' 7. She leads a spoken declaration that God is good, near, and speaking. 8. Heidi says hearing God begins with identity, because believers already belong to him as daughters and sons. 9. She describes God's voice as gentle, kind, consistent, full of peace, and full of love. 10. She warns that the enemy can sound condemning and can mimic Bible language while producing shame. 11. Heidi says God's voice never condemns, manipulates, or confuses. 12. She contrasts 'peace, not pressure' with fear, striving, and emotional eating in response to condemnation. 13. Heidi separates God's voice from self by saying personal preference is simply preference, not a spiritual accusation. 14. She gives the categories logos and rhema, defining logos as the written word and rhema as a personal, revealed word. 15. Her cereal story becomes the clearest rhema example, because 'you're a good mom' lifted shame and changed her behavior. 16. Heidi says God can speak through a grocery-store nudge, a worship lyric, a non-Christian friend's timely word, or an unexpected memory. 17. She spends significant time on nature, movement, writing, silence, and the five senses as ways of noticing God's presence. 18. The tone is teacherly and devotional, with repeated prayer, confessional examples, and direct calls to speak aloud. 19. Listeners who want practical Christian discernment and mental-health language will likely benefit. 20. Listeners looking for a short secular psychology discussion will probably skip it.

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