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Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents
The Poison of Jealousy
Jealousy tears at the soul like nothing else—a spiritual corrosion that Scripture describes as "rottenness to the bones" and "cruel as the grave." These aren't mere metaphors but profound truths I've witnessed time and again throughout my life.
My spirit has been deeply troubled by the recent tragedy involving Christopher Arsenault, who lost his life in a fire at his cat sanctuary in Long Island. When stories grip my heart this way, I've learned to recognize it as a spiritual sensitivity to the darkness behind human actions. Too often, when someone builds something beautiful and meaningful, others who cannot match that achievement resort to destructive behaviors born of pure envy.
We see jealousy everywhere—in workplaces where colleagues stare you down with barely concealed resentment, in churches where fellow singers try to outperform you, and even in families where siblings cannot celebrate each other's success. The jealous person convinces themselves their target deserves to be taken down, justifying actions they would otherwise find unthinkable. They lie, they destroy reputations, and in extreme cases, they cause devastating harm.
This podcast may be different from others—sometimes recorded outdoors with ambient sounds, sometimes with music, sometimes just with my raw thoughts—but my message remains clear: if you recognize jealousy within yourself, pray for healing before it consumes you completely. What you plant through jealous actions will eventually bear fruit in your own life. Contact me at swarnregina@gmail.com and please share this message with someone who needs to hear it today.
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Hello and good morning. I'm Regina Swarn. Welcome back to another bonus episode of Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents. I'll go ahead and give you a place that you can contact me. Contact me at swarnregina at gmailcom. At gmailcom. Thank you to all who support this podcast monthly and thank you so much for those who share it and listen to my podcast.
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Speaker 1:I want to speak on jealousy. This morning, hopefully I got everything turned off, because people start to try to contact me in the morning and I'm telling you it gets on my nerve because I'm trying to do this and then people are trying to call me and stuff. So let me make sure that everybody is in a do not disturb mode so I won't be disturbed, because if they're not, the phones start ringing, people start calling and by me sitting on my patio you can imagine that you know I'm already sitting out where there are noises number one. So people start calling, be it from the job, or friends want to talk or whatever, and I'm trying to record so and I am on my patio. So I'm in this very somber mood this morning and I really, really, really need to make this podcast. It's very, very important. So what I'm doing right now is making sure so a lot of people are in Do Not Disturb, because if I don't, then yeah, do not disturb. I want to speak on this briefly so hopefully I can get through it without being disturbed.
Speaker 1:I want to speak about jealousy and I'm going to read you a couple of things from the Bible. I'm going to put my glasses on because I, yeah, okay, good, here's something here that is from Proverbs 14 and 30. I'm just going to read this little part right here. But jealousy is rottenness to the bone. I'm going to read something also. Proverbs has really a lot of great scriptures and chapters there about life in general. So I'm going to read this right here, because my sister, laurie, and I recorded a song called beat by jealousy and I'm gonna I think I'm gonna put that on my new ep, by the way um, the song of solomon eight and six, king james version. It says Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm. The love is strong as death, for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as the grave, for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as the grave.
Speaker 1:Lately there's been a story in the news that has really disturbed my spirit so much, so much, so much, and that's the story of the fire that happened in upstate New York, long Island, I believe it was. Christopher Orsonal lost his life. He had a animal sanctuary, a cat sanctuary, where he rescued sick cats, and cats on the street abandoned cats. This story has really disturbed my spirit so much. The last story that disturbed my spirit was the Hurricane Helene thing that happened in North Carolina. This story has really gripped my spirit like, oh my God, like nothing else since the story that gripped my spirit back when I was a little girl, when I was a teeny, tiny little girl, back in 78, of a murder, ex-murder, that gripped my spirit so much it wouldn't go away. This story would not go away. It would not.
Speaker 1:It's troubled my spirit, troubling of my spirit. It's trouble my spirit, troubling of my spirit, through things that I see visions after the person is gone. So I tell you I'm taken back into a situation before it happens and to me that's the scariest part. I always say I'd rather see a dream and vision when it's years apart or years before, so I can warn the people, warn the person or say, prepare Even myself. I see things in myself that I try to prepare myself. It's scariest to me after the fact, when it happened and I'm taken into the situation. I'm taken there, I'm put right there a week before or weeks before. I'm put right there after the person's gone. It scares me because I'm like, oh God. I'm seeing this played out and my spirit is definitely disturbed by this. And my spirit is definitely disturbed by this. It's definitely one of the top three in my life.
Speaker 1:I'm not a prophet, I'm not a prophetess, I'm not a psychic. I have to always say that because people, you know they like to try to put titles on me. They can put titles on them, but I don't want them putting titles on me. I'm a humble servant. I really am that the Lord chose to show visions to, and it's for the glory of the Lord. It's not for the glory of me, it's not for the glory of whatever. It's not for the glory of whatever. I thank God for the gift, but this case, this story, has gripped my spirit so hard. That's why I chose to read about jealousy. I've been through it. Trust me, I still go through it when people are jealous of you. You heard what I read. I had to turn the thing off because I don't want any disturbance.
Speaker 1:It's as cruel as the grave. Jealousy is rotten. It will rotten a person to the bone, to the very core. Jealousy is a rotten thing. It's a cruel thing. It will cause people to do the unthinkable. It causes you to lie. It causes you to cheat, it causes you to hate, it causes you to commit unthinkable crimes. Jealousy Cruel as the grave. I'm sure some of you out there got things that happen in your life where people are jealous, can be jealous of, or say you are building up an organization, are you building up something for yourself? I mean people could be jealous about your Facebook or your TikTok or something being bigger than them. Jealousy is a horrible thing. Take my glasses off. Jealousy is a very, very horrible thing. It's rotten. It will rotten that person to the core, enough for them to do the unthinkable, the unspeakable you ever heard of. Sometimes in relationships, people commit murder because of jealousy. People do the unthinkable, sometimes because of jealousy.
Speaker 1:I have been on situations in jobs. I remember the last job I was at the hospital. This woman would sit there. I would come in the room and this woman would just sit there and just say nothing and stare me up and down, up and down. And I asked her one day. I said why, when I walk in here, why do you look at me like that? You know why? Why are you looking at me like that? And she said oh, I just admire you. She didn't admire me. This woman was jealous, very jealous of me and I knew it. I could pick up that spirit.
Speaker 1:I don't bother people, I really don't. I don't bother anyone. I try to stay to myself. And even when I work like I was telling you on the last job I was at I try to stay to myself. I don't bother people. But people jealousy is so cruel. People let jealousy grip them for so many different reasons. People could be jealous of you for no reason at all, and then people could be jealous of you for a reason In their mind you are better than them. Jealous of you for a reason In their mind. You are better than them. In their mind, you got a business or something that's better than theirs. You're getting clout, you're getting recognized. People can be jealous for all kinds of reasons A jealous boyfriend, a jealous girlfriend jealous of someone else, a jealous husband jealous of someone else, girlfriend jealous of someone else, a jealous husband jealous of someone else. Jealousy is as cruel as the grave.
Speaker 1:My sister and I used to go singing and I'm going to tell you guys maybe some of you singers have been through this my sister and we would get up and sing and people would try to come behind you, man, and sing the heart out. I have been to organizations, churches, which I don't church hop. I don't do that. I don't believe in that. If I'm going to go to the church, I go to a church, if not, I don't go to a church. But I was going to this church recently and I got up and I would sing a song. I'll never forget it. It was a couple of months ago and I would sing a song and, oh my God, the praise team had already got up and sung, the song had already sang. And I'm telling you right now I'm not talking about them, but they could use some help, I'm serious, they could seriously use some help, seriously, but they had did all their singing. They had to do, they did everything they had to do.
Speaker 1:But every time I would get up and sing a song, this one particular lady well, sometimes all of them would get back up and sing again, but this one particular lady would get up right after, before the pastor would preach and she'd tap him and show I need to sing, I want to sing. My spirit picked up that jealousy and she got up trying to hit notes that she cannot hit Because I am a five octave range. I use my voice four octaves sometimes, but I'm five octave. I can go as high as Minnie Riperton. Not bragging on myself, I want to say I'm speaking of something right now, so please listen. But the lady would get up and, as I've gotten up and sang a song, did a song, performed a song that was pretty high in notes, the lady got up the church is probably not going to tell her, but me, being a singer, it was embarrassing. She got up trying to do something that she could not do, hit notes that she could not hit, going all out of tune, just making a fool of herself and pretty making a fool of that church. And I'm thinking to myself all of that just to come behind me, just to be the last one to sing.
Speaker 1:See, jealousy, jealousy is something else, guys. People can be so jealous of you that they can build up a bunch of lies of you on social media. Have it done to me before? A bunch of lies Steal your identity, lie on you, try to make you look bad in the eyes of other people because you build up such credibility to make you look bad, and all the time it is them. Because when people are jealous of you. Let me tell you this I've been through it. I go through it all the time.
Speaker 1:When people are jealous of you, they will do anything, they will form an alliance with one another like a little group of people, sometimes just to come against you. Because you are such a presence, you have such a presence about yourself that people will come against you. You, little old you. But I often think of David and Goliath. Goliath was this big old giant Because they had giants back in the day. David was that little old something and we know what happened in that case. I don't have to tell you. But people will form an alliance With each other. Who are like minded, who are Small minded, but Form an alliance in their jealousy With each other who are like-minded, who are small-minded, form an alliance in their jealousy, hatred of you, to come against you. And I've had that happen to me before. There was an alliance formed through jealousy. Because people are jealous and they form that alliance to try to get everybody that has faith and trust in you to turn against you, to mess up your character. But if anybody truly know you, they will say no, that person is not like that.
Speaker 1:No, jealousy is cruel as a grape. It's rottenness to the bone. People have jealousy in churches, in organizations, musicians I mean keep naming it Fundraisers, cats, organizations. I mean this thing with Chris Arsinoff is, in my spirit, so strong that I can only the only thing that comes to my mind, along with my spirit being as troubled as it is, is jealousy. Jealousy People were jealous of that man and what he was doing. He was doing better than them and they didn't like it. You know, it's really sad to me. It's very sad because this has troubled my spirit and that's why I'm speaking on this topic. That's why I'm speaking on this topic Because jealousy is cruel. Look up the word cruel, look up the definition of cruel.
Speaker 1:Jealousy is as cruel as the grave. The grave is you know what the grave is. That's jealousy. That's people who are jealous, envious. The song my sister and I recorded Some years ago, which I'm going to release, it's called Beat by Jealousy. The lyrics go you walk into the room, I walk into the room. You stare at me. I turn my back. You're talking about me. I go to my car. You can't stand it. I go to the church. You can't keep your eyes off of me. And then it goes into the chorus. Jealousy is as cruel as the grave and so many people are sick with it. They need healing, they need help, they need a cure, they need to be cured. They need to pray because it will take you to the grave. Sure, you may cause somebody else harm, but eventually it will cause your death. It will take you to the grave Because if you die with that jealousy in your heart, it's not a good ending for you, here or eternity.
Speaker 1:So I wanted to bring this topic to you this morning. This is a bonus topic. There's no music. There's no nothing. Yeah, you may hear cards in the background. You may hear something in the background. As I tell you, my podcast is different. I'm not trying to be like nobody else I hope I'm not like nobody else but I had to bring you this topic.
Speaker 1:If you got jealousy in your heart out there today, you need to really, really, really pray and ask God to get it out of you. Get it out of you Because eventually it's going to destroy you. Jealousy is as cruel as the grave and so many millions, billions of people suffer from it. They suffer from jealousy. If you got that in you today, you better pray. That's got to get it out of you. If you think someone is better than you because of the way they look, or because they got more than you, or they got a better organization than you, or they build up something really wonderful and is doing better than yours, that's horrible, oh god, is horrible.
Speaker 1:And you think you're winning right now because you've formed an alliance with other people who are like-minded, but trust and believe that one day, sooner than you think because life is a vapor one day sooner than you think, you're gonna be wiped out, just like your competition, or so you think. So you have to be careful, the things that you do and say about other people, because whatever you plant is going to come up again. You may think that you have did something or done something years ago. That is like under wraps, but oh, you gotta meet an almighty god. And just whether you believe in the Bible or not Because a lot of people say I don't believe in the Bible, I don't believe in God, I don't believe in Jesus Well, that is you, and I don't care what you believe in, because if you don't believe in any of the things I speak of, then turn this podcast off and get out of here. But if you do believe in it, trust and believe. But if you do believe in it, trust and believe, and if you're listening to this podcast right now, trust and believe you're going to reap what you sow. What you plant is coming up again. It's going to come back up and it's going to come back up at you in a time that you think not.
Speaker 1:I'm Regina Sorin. Thank you so much for listening. When topics are passionate to me, I really get into them, I get out of character. I'm sorry sometimes, but if a topic makes me upset or makes me angry, I don't know. When I speak about jealousy because I go through it I always say I wish that jealousy did not exist, but it exists. It started with Cain and Abel.
Speaker 1:So, guys, listen, if you got jealousy in your heart today, pray, pray, pray, pray. God will hear your prayers. If you are honestly and sincere. But you got to get that out of you or it's going to destroy you. You can contact me at sorenretina at gmailcom. Thank you to those who listen to my podcast, thank you to those who support it monthly and thank you to those who take the time to share my podcast and a lot of people don't. Again, I said I deal with jealousy right, so people would hear it. And you know I got. You know that's a lot of jealousy in families too. There's a lot of it. I don't have to talk about that one day, but I'm going to do it right now. But yeah, I just want to thank those out there who support this podcast and listen to it. I really appreciate you and the ones who share it. So God bless you, take care and have a great day.