“Sweet-Fire” - The Podcast
How to survive the flame when what attracts you burns
“Sweet-Fire” - The Podcast
“Heaven Has My Back” PT. 7 “Wounds That Stall Us”
The nudge you’ve been feeling isn’t random—it’s a window of grace opening. We talk candidly about hesitation, the assignments we keep postponing, and why now is the right time to move. With Dr. Lydia Michelle Young hosting alongside Intercessor J’eanine Nichole, we trace the real obstacles that slow our steps: childhood wounds that never healed, the shame of struggling “this long,” and the sting of church hurt that can make even faithful hearts go quiet. The message is direct but compassionate: heaven has your back, and your next step matters.
We unpack the paradox behind our show’s theme—how to survive the flame when what attracts you burns. Attraction isn’t the enemy; unexamined attraction is. From relationships that promised belonging to habits that numbed pain, we ask you to name what drew you in and what it cost. Then we map a way forward that doesn’t demand denial. Release becomes a concrete practice: say where it hurts, place it at God’s feet, and stay there long enough to be reshaped. The torch you carry—your mission, your voice, your presence in God—won’t erase the night, but it will light the next faithful step.
You’ll hear a raw, personal account of surrender, the moment of handing God not just the pain but the anger at Him. That honest exchange opens space for new sight, where wounds stop writing your future. We end with forgiveness as a key discipline: pray for those who hurt you, forgive them and yourself, and watch how release unlocks forward motion. If you’ve been waiting for permission to begin again, this is it. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs courage, and leave a review with the step you’re taking this week—we’re walking with you.
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Don't hesitate. Uh let's stop postponing the thing that God has given us to do. Accept the assignment. Act now. Move forward. Take that significant step in your life, in your journey, what God has mapped out, laid out for your life. Again, there is a divine window of grace that is opened up to those of you who are listening, tuning in, believing, waiting, hoping, praying, sticking with God, staying with God. There is a divine window of grace, my Lord, that has opened up to you. I am your host, Dr. Lydia Michelle Young, here with my co-host, intercessor Janine Nicole. She's here in the building. The Spirit of the Lord is here. There's a fire that is burning, and we are so grateful for the movements of God, for the move of God, this prophetic movement that is happening even now. This is middle of the week, Wednesday. Wednesday, midweek refreshing fire. Thank you so much for tuning in to Sweet Fire the podcast. Intercessor, why don't you give the people a big God bless you? Good evening, people of God. God bless each and every one of you. Thank you for tuning in to Sweet Fire the Podcast. Uh, divine moment, divine opportunity, divine grace. Uh, this is our moment. This is our hour. Looking forward to talking about it. Looking forward to talking about it. Don't hesitate. Now, when we say don't hesitate, there's a reason why we're saying don't hesitate. There's a reason the thought, the word came, don't hesitate. No longer postpone the assignment, the move of God for your life, um, what God has called and chosen you to do. There are many hindrances. If we go back to even the tag for Sweet Fire the Podcast, it's how to survive the flame when what attracts you burns. There are many hindrances that try to prevent, present themselves, to prevent us from moving forward, to present, to pre uh prevent us, excuse me, from being productive, to prevent us uh from being successful, to prevent us from that prayer life that God has called us to, from the ministry, uh, from using our voice uh as a tool for God uh to draw people to Him. Uh there are childhood traumas, intercessor, trap childhood traumas. Even I heard this while we were preparing. There are parents who are being disrespected, uh, being bullied by their own children. So there are many things uh that occur in life that present themselves to try uh to prevent us from moving forward, from moving forward. Why don't you address that? Yeah, absolutely. Various um things, various uh experiences that you know um life brings about. Just, you know, life itself will birth so many different experiences. Each one of us, you know, we have specific experiences that we endure in life, right? But then there's such a relatability, though the experience is you know individual specific. There's a relatability there because those experiences, the enemy, you know, uses to try to snatch, you know, our identity in God. The enemy uses those experiences to try to stop, you know, the good, acceptable, perfect will of God from manifesting in our lives. You know, that's what those hindrances are all about. The question is, how do we survive those hindrances? How do we survive the flame, you know, the burns that we experience as a result of those hindrances? And there's many people today, uh, they don't know how. Right. And I know for years, for years, I didn't know how. But we continue to grow in age. We get older, but yet, you know, the wounds they remain open. And as a result, those open wounds, we're hindered. Though we're getting older, we're hindered and not, you know, developing spiritually. You know, how to survive blame when what attracts you. So there's an attraction there, it's appealing. What has been appealing to you? What has has attracted you, listeners? What has been attractive to you that end up hurting you, that end up afflicting you, that caused you pain, that stopped you in your tracks, that caused you uh setbacks in your life that caused you uh to experience some chaos and some trouble and some trauma? What has caused you to shed tears of pain in your life? What are those things that you were attracted to? Was it a relationship? Was it an intimate relationship? Uh could it be uh alcohol? What attracts us that that it you know it seems sweet, it's it it it looks beautiful, it's like, oh yes, but then here comes the pain. And you asked a question, and we're gonna put it out there because there are several dynamics, several elements that cause us pain that try to hinder us, uh, to cause us to hesitate or to stop moving forward in what God has called us to. You said, what's one of the most pressing, uh disturbing things that women are faced with? What are the changes? What are the strongholds? I mean, what's really going on? Don't forget now, this this series, Heaven Has My Back, is a fact. And so that's why we're sharing uh this this particular episode, this this episode today regarding those things that attract us, that cause us uh to be hindered, or or uh that that causes us uh to stumble or to trip up. What are those things? What women, what's that one pressing thing in your life that has stuck with you? Remember, we talked about the thorn? It's pressing, it never leaves. God won't remove it, but you can make it through it, right? You can still carry the torch, come on, that God has given you to carry. You can still fulfill the mission. My God, come on, come on, you can still fulfill the mission, absolutely, you know. Um going back to there's a people who they don't necessarily know how to come up from you know that pain. They don't know how to come up under that, you know, that experience that just that's suppressing them. They don't know how to step out and how to survive it. You know, and many are are of age now, you know, maybe in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and you know, there's that level of of shame and embarrassment. They don't want to admit that they have yet to survive that flame. They have yet to survive that experience, you know, that took place so many years ago. But we're here on this evening to let you know that there's nothing to be ashamed. There's no reason to be ashamed if you don't understand how to come from up under that experience. But it is possible because heaven has your back. It is possible to survive that the flame, that to survive that experience, to survive that wound. And when you were ministering earlier, one of the things that I heard very uh clearly, Doctor, is church hurt. Oh, yeah, there's a lot of people walking around with church hurt, and because of that, and we're talking about some deep-rooted church hurt, some deep-rooted church hurt. Many are walking around, and as a result of the pain, the devastation that they face, even in the church, you know, they're they're wanting to stay away, they're allowing that experience to keep them distant from God. But we're here on this evening to let you know that pain that you experienced from church, the pain that you experienced from that pastor, that bishop, whoever it was, heaven has your back. And you are able to survive it because heaven has your back. It's time, it's time to you know to take that experience, people of people of God, people all over listeners, tune in right now. Take that experience, the weight of that pain, and release it and give it to God. Wherever that pain stems from, release it and give it to God. How to survive? How to survive it? There's a song that says, I will make the darkness light before thee. And whatever's wrong, God said, I'll make it right. Yes, I think it says before thee. All of your battles I will fight them for thee. And the high place, God said, I'll bring it down. How do you survive that flame? You carry that torch. Yeah, carry your own torch, allow that to and understand when we talk about a torch, it is the mission. You're carrying your torch, the mission, you're carrying the torch, the light, the presence of God. Cling to Him. My God, draw nigh to Him. Redic rededicate in your prayer time in your prayer life. Yes, I know it's difficult. Yes, I know it's a struggle. Been there, but this is the word I heard. Uh, don't give up. Don't give up. It's up to us to trust him. It's up to us to trust him. Lord, I don't know how you're gonna do it, but I'm just gonna put my trust in you. I don't know how you're gonna do it, God, but I'm gonna cling to your hand. I'm gonna hold on to you. I'm not gonna let you go until you bless me. I'm not gonna let you go until you bring me out. I'm not gonna let you go until you deliver me, till you help me, until you strengthen me, till you empower me. Oh my God. Allow the torch, the presence of God to guide you through, my Lord, that dark place. Allow the flame, the light of God to illuminate your pathway while you're on your mission, while you're on the journey, you can survive the flame that attracted you. Come on, as we get ready to close. Yeah, as we get ready to close, you know, that's that's something uh uh that I had to come to realize for myself. You know, I was going about my day, day to day, day to day, even going to church, you know, and and serving in ministry all the while, you know, fooling people, but I wasn't fooling God because he saw the open wounds, he saw the broken heart, he saw the devastation, you know, and he had to minister to me and let me know. I know, I know, give it to me. I even know that you're angry with me, give it to me. I know that you're blaming me, give it to me, and I had to make that conscious decision for myself to give it to God. Though I was angry with him, though I didn't understand, though I was a hurt, devastated woman, young lady, I had to make that conscious decision to pick up the pain and put it at his feet, and to remain at his feet, right alongside that pain, under humbling myself under his mighty hand. And it was then and only then that God was able to begin to deal with me. We have to make that decision, people of God, listeners on this evening, to trust God even though it hurts, and when we make that decision, then and only then will he open up our spiritual eyesight, and we will behold to see the truth of our true reality, and that is heaven has your back. Heaven has your back. And I appreciate you sharing that. I was hearing this in closing. Um pray for those who have hurt you, who have despitefully used you, who have uh called you out of your name, who have uh abused you or caused you harm, did you wrong, stabbed you in the back, turned their back on you. I hear that. Pray for them so you can be released, forgive them, forgive yourself, my God. So you can be released, and so that you can move forward, so you can take that significant step. Pray for those who have done you wrong, forgive them so you can release yourself. Peace be to you, peace be to your house, and peace be to all you have.
