“Sweet-Fire” - The Podcast
How to survive the flame when what attracts you burns
“Sweet-Fire” - The Podcast
Breathe Again
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What if the greatest loss isn’t something you missed out on, but what quietly withered inside while you kept going? We open up a raw, hopeful conversation about dormant gifts, shelved dreams, and the moments that made our souls go silent—and how to call the wind back into those places.
With Lydia Michelle Young and Intercessor J’eanine Nichole, we trace the thread from childhood expectations to adult exhaustion, asking a simple but surgical question: what is the one thing you need God to breathe on right now? Janine shares a candid story of a vibrant prayer life that faded under anger and self‑reliance, the slow slide into backsliding, and the hard turn back through honest confession and solitude. Together we unpack why we magnify pain instead of God, how busyness and resentment choke spiritual life, and what it looks like to choose joy that endures rather than chasing fragile happiness.
You’ll hear a practical framework for closure as the year turns: name the root, not just the branches; examine the fragile parts that need care; forgive others and yourself; and release what holds you so you can move with purpose. Expect reflection prompts, straight talk about letting go of labels and grudges, and a clear path to revive your voice, prayer, and confidence. If you’re ready to stop carrying what keeps you small and make room for breath, this conversation meets you where you are and points to where you can go next.
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The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. The greatest loss are those parts of us that have not been used, have not been utilized, have not been exercised. The greatest loss is when there are things that we experience in life that get the best of us. And uh many of us we uh we give up a lot of ourselves, you know, in order to just survive. So again, the greatest loss is what fades away, what dies inside of us while we yet live. And so the question that we have uh this evening is what is it? What is it uh, what are some of the things, or what is that one major thing uh in your life where you've uh felt that you deserved as a child, or you felt you deserved as a person that was taken from you? What do you uh believe that you should have experienced in life and have yet to experience that? So that's what we're gonna share with you on today. We want to have a little discussion um on those ideas, the greatest loss. It's a moment in life, it's a time in life, it's a situation in life where we need God to breathe again. We need him to breathe on that situation, breathe on our situation, our circumstance, our condition. So the question today is what is it? What is it in your life? I'm your host, Dr. Lydia Michelle Young. I'm here with my co-host, Intercessor Janine Nicole. This is Wednesday, middle of the week. Wednesday, refreshing fire. We appreciate each of you for tuning in to Sweet Fire the Podcast, and we are feeling super blessed. This is the last day of 2025. Um, and I'm kind of gonna go on on a little bit. I want to say this that the number uh the year 2025 is the year of closure. Uh, 2025 is the end of a cycle, it's equivalent to the number nine, and I can go on and on, and that we may you know share some of that in here, but it's the year of closure. So let's talk about that. Uh, intercessor, why don't you jump in and greet the people?
SPEAKER_00:Good evening, everyone, and uh happy New Year's Eve to each and every one of you uh as we are embarking upon a uh a new year. This is a perfect topic, a perfect subject, you know, um, to really discuss as we are again preparing to enter into a new year, right? You know, what is that that um that thing, if you will, you know, that that space in our lives that we may need God to breathe on us, to revive, to uh to awaken us to before we actually enter into the new year. So again, good evening, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to Sweet Fire, the podcast. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01:So we can definitely agree um that there are some things in us that need to be made alive, restored, that where we need a refreshing. We need God to breathe again the breath of God, the rua, the wind of God blowing in your life, blowing in your direction, blowing on that dead situation uh where you've given up hope and causing there to be uh a revival, so to speak, in your life. And we can even take it back uh to childhood, go all the way back to our childhood. You know, we don't want to stay there, but just take a moment, if you will, and think about some of your experiences uh in your childhood, allow your thoughts to travel. Um, looking at your childhood, some some situations that took place in your life. The question again this evening is what is it? What is it? Um, I'm asking intercessor uh because I know you have uh some significant experiences in your life. What is it that you felt you deserved as a child or as a person that was taken from you? And it's and you're feeling that emptiness, that void, and you need God to breathe again, or maybe God has already breathed in that area. You know, you've been healed, you've been restored. Something that uh our listeners can relate to this evening.
SPEAKER_00:Um that's a good question. If one of you, you know, it took a moment I had to think for a second. Um, I know for me uh personally, um, I know that my experiences in life, you know, um, it my prayer life started to dwindle. My prayer life, it really did, it started to dwindle, and I got to a point in life uh um that whenever somebody would ask for me to pray, to pray for them, to pray for their situation, pray for their families, it it made me like cringe a little bit, you know, because I wasn't I wasn't there, you know, anymore. You know, and it wasn't just I wasn't there anymore, but I really I didn't want to be there anymore, you know, because I was so busy with fulfilling the lusts of my flesh. I was so busy wanting to do life my way, right? I was so busy wanting to hang on to to my anger. I was so busy up, you know, not wanting to forgive people. This is my experience, you know. This is how I felt. I I wanted to, I wanted to do me, and I wanted to hang on to whatever it was that even though it made me angry, it it made me, you know, hold grudges, uh uh, it made me stuck, if you will. I got to the place in life that I was comfortable with all of that, and I didn't want to let go of any of that. But what I wanted to release and let go of was my prayer life. And I and I got dangerously got you know to that place again to where when people wanted me to pray, I just it was like it was something I was forcing myself to do it, you know. It was like I was put on the spot.
SPEAKER_01:I can I can understand uh that uh relate uh totally to what you're sharing, you know, prayer life. Um how when we so let me say it like this anything that we do consistently, um, and when we back away from doing that, that's what is called backslide. Right. That's backslide when you're not doing or performing or functioning or operating consistently in that thing, and we're relaying this, I guess, to our walk with Christ. You talk about your prayer life. I, like I said, can relate um to that. It is something when we fall short, it is something when we back away or we backslide. It's difficult to function um in that place because we've kind of gotten used to not doing it. Right, right, yeah, and we don't have the confidence, we're not moving out or speaking out in the confidence that's on the inside of us, right? And and it's true in life, we get caught up with the world, it's busy, it's busy, it's there's traffic, and there's there's uh uh what's the word I want to use? Um where it's congestion is congested. Uh when we're when we're caught up with our own flesh, and we're when we're full of ourselves, too busy for keen business. Right. Um, we can get easily distracted, easily thrown off, easily depressed, easily, you know, in placed in a position now. We're out of posture. Right. Right? We're out of posture. Why? Because we allow the things of the world, the things of our flesh to steal from us the things that we thought we should experience, or to steal from us the things that we believe we should have in life, and that's peace of mind. That's um not happiness, because happiness is based on happiness, but what about the joy of the Lord? You know, unspeakable and full of his glory. Come on, energy.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah. Um, you said a mouthful, and it, you know, we allow ourselves to stay in that in that posture, in that position, right? And that's exactly what the enemy wants us to do because we magnify those experiences, we magnify those emotions, and that's exactly what I was doing. I was magnifying everything that was, you know, uh depleting me of life, of everything that was stealing my joy, of everything that was stealing my peace. Because when I, you know, wasn't in that backslidden posture, that that backslidden condition, I enjoyed my prayer life. Right, I enjoyed praying for God's people, I enjoy being called upon by God, right? I enjoy, you know, people acknowledging that, you know, the glory of the Lord truly is on you, the Lord really uses you in prayer. I enjoyed all of that, you know, but I magnified the disappointments in life. I magnified, you know, uh the faces and the names of the people that were used by the enemy to hurt me, to devastate me, to lie on me, to get me to a place in life where the I was, you know, prime pickets for the enemy. You know, he really thought he had me because I allowed myself to stay in that backslidden condition and magnified everything that was trying to kill me. Right, that is so true. We do that, right?
SPEAKER_01:We blow it up, right? We make it bigger, right? Our God. We magnify when he says, Oh, magnify the Lord with me. We magnify uh the issue, and then when we do that, it it leaves us broken. I mean fragile, frail. Um, and and so what's missing? Are there broken fragments? Are are there parts of you that are fragile and frail? Do you see parts of you that are delicate that need to be handled with care? What's going on in you? Let's just take a moment and do a self-examination, right? That's what scripture says. You know, let's do that to examine ourselves, to look within, to you know, say, shine a light from heaven on me, on my soul, so I can determine and discern what's in me that needs the breath of God to breathe in me again.
SPEAKER_00:What is that thing that you know we we need to release and let go of? You know, what what what is that thing that one experience, that name, that face, right? Those emotions that we need to release and let go of before we enter into our new season, this new year. You know what are those experiences? For some, it's probably not just one thing, you know. What are those experiences, those people, those those, you know, those ungodly emotions, those things that the devil is trying to keep you ensnared to, keep you entrapped to, you know, that refuses to let go of you because it's not gonna let go of us. We have to be willing to let go of them, right? It's some things that we need to snatch up by the root, we need to dig down, deep pull that seed out and throw it back to the pit of hell from which it has come. What is that one thing? What is that one experience? What are those emotions that the enemy is using against you, man of God, using against you, woman of God, that refuses to let go of you, that keeps you in a place of fear, keeps you in a place of anxiety. What is it that you need to release and let go of? Because that's where I had to get. I had to get to the place where it was like, you know what, enough is enough. You know, I had my Abraham, my call of Abraham uh experience where God called me out from amongst my family, called me out from my comfort zone and got me in a place to where I was all by myself. It was just me and God. Yes, it was tough at times. I thought I was gonna take my own life because it was painful, it was lonely, it was just me, me and God, and I had to be in that place because God needed to get my attention. You know, I needed to do again what scripture says examine myself, and I had to release and let go of some stuff, I had to release and let go of people, I had to release and let go of myself, I had to get to a place of forgiving God, I had to get to a place of forgiving myself, I had to get to a place of forgiving others. Why so that God can restore my prayer life and make it better than it was? What is that one thing? What are those things, people of God, that you need to release and let go of?
SPEAKER_01:And and that's it. You said it off. You said it off. Identify that one thing, identify that one thing, name it, as we talked about, right? Right, name that thing, name that emotion, name that trouble, name that pain, name what's hurting you, name it, name it, identify it, call it out. You release yourself, release yourself. I mean, you said it. I don't want I don't have anything to follow up with that because uh God really used you uh at the end of this segment to minister to that man, to that woman, to that yet to that youth, you know, that seasoned person. God used you for his glory. So if uh if nothing else, you have anything else. All right, well, there it is. Peace be to you, peace be to your house, and peace be to all you have.
