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

217. Hidden in Christ: Discover Your Worth, Step Into Purpose

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'We look different, we sound different, and we walk different' when the Holy Spirit moves in us.

1. Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast episode 217 centers on Hidden in Christ, Discover Your Worth, Step Into Purpose. 2. Heidi Mortensen hosts the episode, identifies herself as a licensed marriage and family therapist, and says she owned a mental health practice in Minnesota for 16 years. 3. The episode asks what changes when a Christian moves from familiar roles into 'the more of Jesus' and into identity in Christ. 4. Heidi says Proverbs 19:21 explains why her plans changed: 'Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.' 5. She describes feeling the 'taste of Jesus' and losing grace for work that had once felt like her forever calling. 6. She says her story includes ministry school for three years, where the last year involved serving someone else and being activated in prophecy and prayer. 7. Heidi describes seeing demons in a dream, then another dream with a woman with long blonde hair and shining light around her. 8. She says she moved from a home environment with old thoughts and spinning patterns into a call to 'dig my own well' and live from what the Lord placed inside her. 9. She says her work as a therapist, business owner, and expert no longer carries kingdom value compared with being a 'worthy daughter of light.' 10. She frames Colossians 3:3, John 3:30, and First Peter 2:2 as the basis for 'dying' to old narratives and growing up without rushing the process. 11. Heidi says a prophetic word that she would preach felt too big at the time because her identity did not match the call. 12. She names fear of man as a major obstacle and says she lacked a family model for ministry. 13. She reads Acts 18:25-26 and Acts 19:2-6 to distinguish John's baptism from receiving the Holy Spirit. 14. She says the disciples in Acts 19 began speaking in tongues and prophesying after prayer and baptism in Jesus' name. 15. Heidi applies that passage to her own life by saying the Holy Spirit taught her prophecy and praying in tongues after she had 'no grid' for it. 16. She says the Holy Spirit can move believers to look different, sound different, and walk different. 17. The tone is personal, prayerful, and teaching-oriented, with repeated calls to pause, repeat declarations, and ask Jesus for a word. 18. The format mixes testimony, Scripture reading, a sponsor segment for Milk and Tallow Honey Company, and direct prayer over listeners. 19. People wanting a Christian testimony about identity, spiritual gifts, and career change would likely connect with this episode. 20. People wanting a short, strictly clinical mental health conversation may skip this episode.

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