“Sweet-Fire” - The Podcast
How to survive the flame when what attracts you burns
“Sweet-Fire” - The Podcast
“Next Level” - The Series “Change of Direction”
Crossroads don’t arrive with fanfare—they show up as quiet choices that shape more than our own path. We dig into the idea of the pivot: a decisive moment and a lived role where parents, leaders, and friends become steady reference points for the people who watch us most when life gets hard. From the first minutes, we unpack how character under pressure can build trust, set direction, and even safeguard someone’s faith.
Together with Intercessor J’eanine Nichole, we name the weight and gift of influence. We talk about what happens when words and actions don’t match, why some walk away from church because leaders failed the test, and how everyday integrity repairs that breach. You’ll hear practical ways to use your yes and no with wisdom, steward the destinies entrusted to you, and model resilience when trials hit. We look at homes, teams, ministries, and friendships as arenas where consistent example becomes a compass others can follow.
If purpose feels foggy, we offer simple anchors: clarify your values, practice small faithful choices, narrate your process, and repair quickly when you miss it. Influence isn’t about status; it’s about visible alignment over time. By embracing your role as a pivot, you can lead someone toward healing, courage, and hope at their own turning point. Listen now, share this with a friend who needs strength for a decision, and leave a review to help more people find their footing at the crossroads.
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Life is full of turning points. Would you agree? Life is full of turning points. It's full of choices, crossroads, chapters. A single life, a single individual lives, and there are chapters to or in that person's life. There's choices that we have to make, that we are called to make. We're faced with decisions. We come to a crossroad in life. And it really is called a pivot. We reach a pivot, a point, an important point of life that will drive a person that will drive us in a direction. In one direction or the other. A pivot will drive us in one direction or the other. A pivot. It's that moment in life when one must decide: will I say yes or will I say no? Will I stay or will I go? Pivots are very, very important. They're crucial. They're critical because there are other things that depend on a pivot. A person being a pivot, there are other people who depend on you as a pivot. Intercessor, if I can use you as an example. You're a pivot, you're a leader, you're an intercessor. There's a lot that you've uh been given in being, how do I want to say this? That you've been uh delegate, that's been delegated to you by the Holy Spirit, uh, things that the assignment on your life, your responsibilities, your duties, your due diligence, uh, those things that you are to be a steward over. Um, and so based on your decision, based on the choices that you make, uh others' lives will be greatly affected because you being a pivot, others depend on you. Does that make sense? All right, so you being a pivot, you're the central part, you're the main uh individual or ingredient, you're very important because uh a person's life could evolve or revolve around you and the choices you make as a leader. Uh, I am your host, Dr. Lydia Michelle Young. I'm here with my co-host, intercessor Janine Nicole. Today is Wednesday, it's the middle of the week. This is midweek refreshing fire. We appreciate you for tuning in to Sweet Fire, the podcast, where the move of the Lord is going on. And we're just gonna dive into this session talking about pivoting or a pivot. Come on, intercessor, jump in. Good evening, uh, everyone. Uh, yes, thank you for tuning in. Um, I'm definitely looking forward to this broadcast, to this episode, because you know, many of us we don't look at ourselves as being a pivot. We don't look at ourselves as being a pivot, and you know, you breaking down the word pivot. It just it broadens, it further enlightens, right? It causes one's you know, perspective uh to be opened up even greater because we don't, we've heard that word pivot, you know, over uh uh the course of time throughout the years, but never hearing pivot, referring to uh referencing rather, excuse me, an individual as being a pivot, as an individual being a pivotal point in one's life. So definitely looking forward to this uh episode here. And again, thank you for tuning in to Sweet Fire the podcast. All right, yes, so being a pivot, um, a pivot, a parent, a grandparent, a caregiver, uh, those who watch over others' souls, leaders uh in ministry, leaders uh in business, leaders in the home, uh pivot, somebody who has influence, um, they're persuasive, and so what they do, how they demonstrate life or how they function, how they speak, how their conduct, how they carry themselves, the choices they make when they come to the crossroad, right? Uh is going to greatly impact that person who is watching them. You do you realize that folk people are watching you? Yes. Are watching you. So, you know, with that being said, and what comes to mind is because we are being watched, observed, our behaviors are being observed by others, our consistency is being observed by others, our perseverance, our ability to withstand, our ability uh to not fall apart, our ability to keep going, our ability to be trustworthy, our ability to be reliable, to be diligent, to be faithful, to be honest, to be, you know, to operate in uh those things that we think of that are above. If there be any praise, think on these things. If when we operate with character, when we operate uh in truth, when we uh when we make helpful, healthy decisions, my lord, what it does for that one who's gleaning, who's gleaning on you, who's gleaning on your behavior, who's gleaning on your gifts, who's gleaning on uh your capability, who's gleaning from you what you have to offer. Come on. Yeah, yeah. Um, you know, a person's growth depends on you. Rather than a person's gonna mature in life depends on how you are responding right now. You know, you're the pivotal point in somebody's life. Somebody we hold people's destinies in our hands, right? We hold people's destinies in our hand. Parents, you know, you hold your child's destiny in your hand. How you are responding to life, how you are going about your living is gonna determine whether or not your child is gonna grow up, whether or not your child is gonna mature, whether you're not, whether or not your child is gonna tap into the gifts and talents that have been entrusted to them and pursue those gifts and talents, nurture those gifts and talents. You know, you your life depends on the direction your child is going to go. Yes. We hold people's destinies in our hands. It goes back to our living, it's not all about us. I'm not living my life solely all about me, right? In our actuality, our living really doesn't have a whole lot to do about us. I'm gonna say that again. Our living doesn't have a whole lot to do about us. We are out here living life for others. We are holding others' people's destinies in our hands. Leaders, you are holding people's healing in your hands, you're holding people's deliverance in your hands. There are people that are have been entrusted and assigned to you, and it is your responsibility to help them recognize their potential, to awaken them to the gifts and the talents that they have housed on the inside of them. Because unfortunately, you know, maybe their upbringing, their their uh environment that was set in place to nurture them, you know, did not awaken them to who they are, but now they've been they're assigned to you, they're watching you, and it's your responsibility to help them tap in to who they truly are. Right. Will you be that example? Right. Are you the role model? Right, right. Yeah, are are you are you the forerunner? Are you making way for me so that I could succeed, so that I gain salvation, so that I am secure? Um, are you making a way for others, those that God is bringing behind you? Right? Those that you cross paths with. My decisions, my goodness, my decisions uh will bring a person, can either break a person or build a person up. Right. You know, and then we come to the turning point. So how we live, the examples that we set really present, uh will get bring a person to a point where you know, which way will I turn? Will I continue forward? Will I go, will I backslide? You know what I'm saying? Am I on my way to destiny? As you said, destinies are in our hands. Um, you know, so we have we have direction. We can provide direction, uh, we can provide the security needed to secure a person's steps, right? Uh the steps of a good person are ordered, right? So just understanding that the way that we live, the way we live, um has great influence on how that's what makes this world turn, right? That's what makes this world turn. And so it's important to be that role model, to be the example uh that your children need, to be the example that your siblings need. To some of us, you know, examples for our parents, right? As they continue to grow, because we do have people who are seasoned in age, in number, but underdeveloped. Right. And so it's it's so important for us to tap into who we are, know who we are by grace, so that we can live accordingly and help those uh who are in our pathway. I like how uh you opened it up, even, you know, um talking about um oh lord, it just succeeded me just that quick. But yeah, the um, you know, just oh thank you, Holy Spirit. People watching us. People watching. We have people watching us. You have people watching you, and it's really at the moments in life that are so critical for us, you know, those uncomfortable circumstances, those uncomfortable uh uh situations, right? Those those real trying times, those times of trials, those times of tribulations, those painful times that we really, you know, have more eyes on us because people are wanting to know, okay, you've been you've been preaching it, you've been teaching it, right? But are you gonna live out what you've been saying? Are you gonna respond, you know, uh to those uncomfortable moments in life, like you've instructed me, right, you know, on how to respond. People are truly watching you, people are watching you, and they want to see are you really going to live what you've been saying? And and unfortunately, that's why a lot of people have even left the church. Uh, that's why a lot of people have walked away from the church because the leaders did not live up to you know uh the words that they were speaking to another. So they were that pivotal point in that person's life. Many people have walked away from their walk with God, from their relationship with God, and because that person, that leader, served as a pivotal uh uh example in that one's life, unbeknownst to that leader, but that leader really should have known. And that individual, you know, made a decision to go another direction. The change of direction, unfortunately, was to walk away from the Lord, to not trust God's people, right? So it is a matter of life and death, yeah. Right, it's a matter, it's critical, it's a matter of life and death. You know what decision will you make today? Um what's your choice? What do you what will you decide? And and another uh aspect to this is that people are un so many people are unsure of their purpose, what they're called to do, what they're created to do, you know, what they've been chosen to do in this life. They don't really know who they are. There's so many people that are there they're unsure, they're uncertain about who they are, they don't really identify. There's a lack of connection there. Why? Because the pivots haven't been oh my god, the pivots haven't haven't, when they got to the crossroads, they didn't make the right decision, right? Instead of saying, oh my goodness, instead of saying yes to a yes, they say no. Instead of saying no, when they should say no, they say yes. It's really in our choices, it's really about making a choice, a turning point. Which way will you go? Come on. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. And it's important, you know, to keep in mind again that we all are serving as pivots, right? We are all serving as pivots. We, you know, every last one of us has some type of relationship. There's there's nobody living out here, you know, uh uh on one man island. You know, there's some type of encounters that each and every one of us will have in life. You know, the this life is a social sphere, if you will. Right. Right? We're gonna we're gonna encounter, we're gonna have, even if those encounters, those relationships formed are just, you know, uh uh seasonal. Many relationships are seasonal. Not all relationships are gonna be lifetime connections, okay? But you know, for for that moment of time, everybody in that relationship is serves as a pivot. You know, the choices that each and every one of us make on a day, on a daily day in and day out, right? They're serving as a type of pivot. They're serving as a type of pivot. And and and that pivot is not necessarily about us, but it's about those ones that we will encounter. We can lead somebody to life, we can lead somebody to success, we can lead somebody to healing, we can lead somebody to deliverance, we can lead somebody to their breakthrough, we can lead somebody, you know, to uh to that divine connection that's going to lead to a door being opened favorably on their behalf. I mean, we just have no idea the uh uh the weight that our connections are with one another really play in life. But if we walk away from this broadcast, understanding that each and every one of us is a pivot. Each and every one of us is a pivot. Our living that we are doing, it is not all about us. That's where we gotta get in life. We gotta stop thinking that my life is all about me, that the choices that I make in life is all about me. No, it's not. The choices that we make in life, they are for another. We are pivots, and that's how we need to really look at our relationships. Right, right, right. And as we close, um, you know, we as just in general, as people, we we know when we're headed in the right direction. And we know when we're uh making choices that that uh can hurt us, affect us in a negative way. And so as we close, I just want to say this. If you are that the individual, if you are one who is headed uh in a direction that uh is uncomfortable, that's headed in a direction uh where you're feeling um insecure, that you're not you don't have the security, you don't have the confidence, you don't have uh the certainty about where you're going. All I want to say is wake up. Wake up. Uh you just might be headed in the wrong direction. Wake up and be the pivot that you were created to be. Peace be to you, peace be to your house, and peace be to all you have.
