“Sweet-Fire” - The Podcast
How to survive the flame when what attracts you burns
“Sweet-Fire” - The Podcast
“Heaven Has My Back” PT. 10 “Undervalued?”
If you’ve ever felt invisible—at home, at work, or even in church—this conversation meets you right where it hurts and refuses to leave you there. We open the door on loneliness, depression, and the pressure to perform, then point to a steadier center: the God who sees, defends, and stays. With Dr. Lydia Michelle Young and Intercessor J’eanine Nichole, we name how hidden expectations crush women, how “man up” myths silence men, and how ministry can wound when applause becomes the measure of worth.
We talk candidly about how feeling unseen can spiral into isolation, affairs, or addiction, and why those are counterfeit comforts that never heal the root ache. Instead, we reframe value through the names of God—El Roi, the God who sees; Jehovah Shammah, the Lord who is there; Emmanuel, God with us—and let those truths carry weight in the secret places where pain has no words. You’ll hear a path forward that is honest and practical: take the truth of your reality to the throne of grace, get your eyes off people, and fix your gaze on the One who never looks away. Not every wound comes from God, but none of it is beyond his use; even harsh seasons can be repurposed into strength, compassion, and clarity of calling.
By the end, you’ll be invited to lift your head, remember your identity as chosen and set apart, and step back into life with a quieter heart and a stronger spine. Your life matters, your story carries purpose, and your pain is not the period at the end of the sentence. Listen, share with someone who needs to feel seen today, and if this message encouraged you, subscribe, leave a review, and tell us where you’ve found hope lately.
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Are you feeling undervalued? Unappreciated, unnoticed, unseen. Uh we are here to encourage you that Elroy, he is the God who sees you. In fact, uh, he sees your wounds, he sees your worries. We want to talk a little bit about that today. Um, and maybe tie in um, you know, maybe some of the most critical things that affect women, some of the most critical uh issues or pains that affect men, and tie in together how Elroy is the God who sees you as a man. God is the God who sees you as a woman, uh, to encourage you today that he is uh a constant care. Uh he's watching over you to protect you, to lead you, to guide you, to comfort you. And that's what we want to share a little bit with you on today. I am your host, Dr. Lydia Michelle Young, here with my co-host, intercessor Janine Nicole. This is Wednesday, middle of the week. Wednesday, middle of the week, uh Sweet Fire the Podcast, Refreshing Fire, and we are grateful for another opportunity uh to be used by the Lord to share what it is that God wants his people to hear. Intercessor. How are you? I'm doing good. Good evening, uh, people of God. Uh El Lord, God who sees me. And it is in the most difficult of times, uh, Doctor. I know you can relate to this, and many of us uh tuning in this evening, we have this testimony. You know, in the most devastating of times, we don't realize that God sees us, that God is watching over us. He sees that pain, he sees that hurt, he sees the magnitude, the weight, the effects, you know, that that devastating moment um has caused in our lives. You know, it's at those most difficult times in life that we don't realize air war. He sees us, he sees us in those moments. And because we don't realize it, you know, that God sees us even at those very moments, we are we oftentimes turned elsewhere because we don't understand that God sees us even at that moment, at that time. So I thank God for once again another uh prophetic uh episode to where the Lord is truly going to minister to his people, bless his people, and encourage his people that God sees you. God sees you. You are not alone, and many people uh feel alone. It's easy to feel alone. I remember years coming up uh in the depression that I experienced and the suicidal ideations and the pain and the agony and uh words that I would utter out of my mouth were saying, nobody loves me. Right. No, why does everybody you know treat me the way why me? Nobody loves me. I didn't feel I had the support, I didn't feel that I was connected, I didn't have a connection, I didn't have uh, you know, I had an expectation, but it wasn't being satisfied, it wasn't being met. I just wanted to be loved. And I felt that I loved and I served loved, I gave love, but I didn't get the same in return. So I felt undervalued. I felt uh that I was unappreciated, I felt that I was unseen, I felt alone. And then many go into isolation, and we want to really cancel uh the spirit and the curse, uh, the detriment of feeling isolated, feeling like you are by yourself and that nobody cares, or nobody is with you, or nobody's supporting you, or no one has your back. If no one does, God does. He's more for you than the whole wide world is against you. And so many people do feel, even in ministry, undervalued, unseen, even in the home, unseen, unseen in the home, uh with even with women, and and we could talk about this a little bit with women. What is the expectation? Oh, she's to take care of the children, she's to cook the meals, she's the you know, this is the house. She has to maintain and manage the household. You and if that is not being met or satisfied by that individual, or you know, that's just how society is today. Oh, that that's the woman's responsibility. And then what about men? You know, some of them run, a lot of them are missing. A lot of them feel like they have to be strong or show that that's strong, and you know, they give words like if they show any weakness, you need to man up, you need you need to toughen up, feeling unnoticed and feeling unseen. So it happens on both ends of the spectrum, men and women, where we feel like uh, you know, there's the potential to feel like you're not worthy, you're unworthy. It happened to me growing up where I just felt like I was all by myself. Can you address that at all, intercessor? Amen. Yeah, yeah. Um, I definitely appreciate you, you know, sharing that because a lot of us, you know, can relate to that same, you know, it's not necessarily the same experience, but the same emotions, the same thought process, you know, that uh uh we dealt with growing up and throughout life, you know, uh being in those relationships, feeling uh unappreciated, serving in ministries, feeling, you know, unappreciated, undervalued, you know, um, not in it to get, you know, the recognition, but hey, you know, just to hear a thank you, I see you. Thank you for being a blessing, you know, uh, didn't receive that. So, you know, and then a lot of times too, that's uh where cheating comes in in relationships. Women feeling undervalued, underappre underappreciated, you know, in the home. The man, the same thing, feeling those same experiences, and as a result, stepping out on that wife, that wife stepping out on that husband. Uh many people turn to alcohol, turn to drugs, you know, because of feeling as if nobody sees them, nobody cares about their experiences and what they have gone through in life. And we are here on this evening to cancel the plans and the attacks and the method and the schemes and the deception of the enemy, to let you know that somebody does see you, even if you are in a room full of people, you know, and and nobody in the truth of your reality is nobody in that room sees you, nobody in that room appreciates the value that truly lies within you. We are here on this evening to say, you know what, that may be the truth of your reality, but there's an addition to your reality. Elroy sees you, God sees you, the one who matters. He sees you, he appreciates you, he sees the value in you. So we are here on this evening to serve the devil. Notice your time is up. Your time is up. He sees you, he sees the value in you. In fact, he sees himself in you. Amen. What makes us valuable? My God, God Himself, who dwells, who lives on the inside. So here's a word to lift you, to encourage you. My God, for those who feel like they're not enough, that they're not enough. You know, we talked about um, you know, even you know, in ministry, and you're saying she's telling the truth. We don't serve in ministry for recognition, we serve in ministry uh because we love God, so we serve God, and serving God means serving his people, and doing it with compassion and love, uh, and being good stewards over what God has given us. But but uh don't bully me. And that's the problem why people are feeling unappreciable, because they're being bullied in ministry, bullied in the church. I'm not saying in every situation, but it happens, it happens so much, and it's been going on for ye for centuries, where people are actually feeling bullied. They're there to serve, they're there to to worship and and and give unto God, you know, and and to receive from God, right? But in the midst of giving and receiving from God, then here comes those interferences and those that trouble, you know, where the people are being bullied or they're being treated uh mishandled, mishandling God's people, touching the anointed of God. Um, and so people are feeling unseen. But we don't serve man, we serve God. And again, as intercessor uh said so eloquently, um that Elroy, the God who sees us, sees you, his eyes are on you, his eyes are on you. Man may not value us, but God does, and so knowing that God values us, my God, when we look at Elroy, he's the God who sees us. When we look at Jehovah Shammah, he's the Lord who's there, he's there, he's present, he's ever present. My God, when we look at uh Jehovah Shammah is what I he's the God who's there, excuse me. Jehovah Shamma, he's the God who's there. Emmanuel, God is with us. He said, I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you, Lord. I'm with you always, my God, even until the end, even in your darkest moment, I'm there. Even when uh you have fallen short of my glory, I'm there because I'm faithful, you know, and knowing that you're chosen. Man may not value, but God values you. You are chosen to God, you are a masterpiece to God, you are precious to him. Oh my god, and he sees in secret intercessor. Yeah, he sees in secret, he sees uh those quiet moments, those things you don't utter, those things you don't discuss, those things that you hold on inside that that you allow to build up in you. God sees in secret, and he's only stretching out his hands today and letting you know uh that I'm here for you, I care for you, I'm here to comfort you, I'm here to encourage you, I'm here uh to lift those heavy burdens. And I hear this scripture in my passage lift up your head, oh ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the king of glory shall come in. My God, who's the king of glory? He's the Lord, he's strong, he's mighty, he's the Lord who is mighty in what battle. Lift up your head, he's fighting your battles, he'll fight for you, he'll defend you, he's coming to your rescue. This is a word of rescue, my God. A call for you to be lifted. Come on, intercessor. Amen. And God is intentional and he intentionally has you tuning in on this evening. You know, um many people don't realize that God sees them, right? You know, that God is there, you know. Why? Because they're so focused on the experience, they're so focused on the people, they're so focused on, you know, those who hurt them, they're so focused on, you know, uh trying to get that one's attention, trying to get those, you know, uh uh attention, right? And I can definitely relate to that, you know, uh, people uh God, it wasn't until I made up in my own mind, right, that enough is enough and truly took my eyes off of people and truly, you know, spent time making the Lord more than enough. It wasn't until then that I made the conscious decision, right? Yes, the experiences that I experienced were very real. Yes, the emotions attached to those experiences were very real. Yes, the truth of my reality was many, you know, were used uh by the enemy to come up against me, to try to take me out, to try to destroy my faith, to try to keep me permanently separated from God. Yet, those though, you know, those were the truth of my experiences. I had to make a conscious decision to make the Lord more than enough. How did I do that? I did that by bringing the truth of my reality, the truth of all of those emotions, taking them to the throne of grace and laying them down at his feet and getting my eyes off of the people, getting my eyes even off of myself, and placing my eyes solely on the Lord. That is when, you know, I realize that God is more than enough. Yes, he is. Amen. But one thing I am, you know, uh confident this day, Doctor, is that regardless of what life may bring my way, God is more than enough for me. He is truly more than enough. We have to want to make God more than enough, and we do that when we get our eyes off of the people. See, the devil, the trick of the enemy is to keep us, you know, to keep our eyes off of God. Because when he's successful in being able to keep our eyes off of God, we don't realize that God is there, and we magnify the situation, we magnify the experience, and that's what the enemy wants. He wants us to magnify the wrong things. God is truly more than enough. God is truly more than enough. God is there, God sees you, God is with us. So, again, be encouraged. And I and something you said and it sparked a thought. He's the God who sees us. And you said about getting your eyes on God, taking your eyes off people. God sees you, and God wants you to see him. Amen. He wants you to see him there, he wants you to see him present. He wants you to see him uh very present in your situation. He wants you to see that what you're experiencing, in fact, does come from God. And God wants us to what? Trust him and rely on him and know that he is doing what he pleases, both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Because my God, all things work together for the good of them who love God, for them who are the call according to his purpose. So, whatever your struggle, whatever your difficulty, man, woman, even young people, whatever your struggle is, wherever you're having a hard time, you may be at a lowest point. Know that God is there. And all things again, all things that you're dealing with, all that you go through, whether it's high or low, good or bad, bright or dark, no matter what it is, they all work together for your good because you love God and you are the call. And God has a purpose in your experience. God has a purpose in your experience. Yes, they're deeply uh emotional um life experiences, human experience, human experiences. Excuse me, but God is in it. God is there, his hand is on you, his hand is on your life, his eyes are upon you. Anything else, intercessor? Yes, before we close, I just want you know to minister to that one on this evening. Your life does matter. Your life truly does matter. I'm gonna say it again because you need to hear it. Your life does matter. Again, we are here on this evening to cancel the plan, the attacks of the enemy to try to get you to take your life, to try to get you to give up on life, to try to get you to give up on God. Your life does matter. Allow the experiences that you have been through in life. Yes, those painful experiences, those devastating experiences, allow them to shape and mold you into who God has called, predestined, and ordained you to be. You are a part of a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people set apart for God. Let those experiences shape you so that God can use you to help somebody else who is where God is delivering you from. God bless you. God bless you. Let go and let God peace be to you, peace be to your house, and peace be to all you.
