Hearts Set Free podcast
by Elaine Creasman
This podcast is to help you become free, so you can be all God has called you to be. You will discover keys to overcoming your hurtful past, so you can receive inner healing. You'll learn how to get unstuck from destructive habits, discover your gifts and talents and how to use them, and experience God's presence, power, peace, and love more fully. You will be encouraged to not only be set free from, but to something—fully embracing God's call on your life, so you can accomplish all you were put on this earth to do.
Episodes
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Encouragers Along The Way Revisited
When someone encourages me, it can make my day. This podcast will help you to notice and appreciate the encouragers God sends to you. Also, it will inspire you to become an encourager to others. Email me at [email protected]
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I Will Not Be Moved Revisited
Life-changing and world-changing things can happen as I try to maintain an "I will not be moved" outlook as far as staying faithful to God. We may not ever be aware of the final excellent outcome of righteous choices we make, but God knows and celebrates each time we decide to stand firm in our...
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Gaining God-Confidence Revisited
Often people would say to me, "You need to have more self-confidence." Over time I realized what I needed was God-confidence. I discovered I didn't trust God, which is the same as not being confident in Him. This podcast will help you to gain and grow in God-confidence. Contact me at...
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Dealing With Hardened Hearts Revisited
We all have people in our lives who have hardened hearts toward us and toward God. We need grace to deal with them. But we also have to be careful that our hearts don't become hardened. The good news is that God is able to soften even the most hardened heart. This podcast will help you to deal…
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Keep Your Eyes on Jesus to Defeat Depression Revisited
This podcast will help you take your focus off of your circumstances which can lead to depression and put it on Jesus. The goal is this: "Arise [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you--rise to a new life!] Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your...
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Believing the Impossible Revisited May 2026
I sent the link to this podcast out to listeners in May, but I could not upload it here to Libsyn for some reason. Often, I think or say, "that's impossible." Then I'm tempted to dismiss the action God is calling me to. This podcast is to help you bring your "that's impossible" belief to God and...
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Jesus, Friend of Sinners
My struggle is to love people where they're at, to love people who hurt me, and to love those who are unsaved and are antagonistic toward me and God. I pray often that people be drawn closer to God, but lately I've discovered anew that I can be the stumbling block that keeps them away because of...
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Control Freak, Be Free
I learned control freakishness happens when it seems God is doing nothing, and I determine I must take actions to demand change from others—especially when a person is doing something negative that affects me. This podcast will help you to stop trying to control people while you embrace the truth...
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Never Too Far
Often, I meet people who tell me they believe they have gone too far into their sinful lifestyles to be able to have or restore their relationship with the Lord. I confess at times I've believed that about wayward loved ones. This podcast will help you to bask in God's amazing mercy for yourself...
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Finding God's Will Revisited
My goal in this new year is to be more and more in the center of God's will. There's no better place to be. Too often, especially in difficult times, I consult my own will rather than trying to find out what God's will and ways are. This podcast will help you to discover God's will and to be...
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Jesus, King of kings
This Christmas season the challenge God is putting before me is this: Are you willing to celebrate Me as King of kings and put Me in the place of King in every area of your life—your marriage, your finances, your leisure time, your body…? When I allow Jesus to be King, life is so much better.…
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Freedom From Criticizing
I have battled the inclination to criticize for as long as I can remember, especially with family members. God has helped me make progress in eradicating this hurtful habit, but I still slip back into it. I've discovered criticism puts a wedge between me and others. The closer I draw to the Lord,...
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Breaking Free from Self-Pity
The dictionary defines self-pity this way: "excessive, self-absorbed unhappiness over one's troubles." An AI overview stated this: "In the Bible, self-pity is a sin rooted in selfishness and a low view of God, where an individual focuses on their own misfortunes instead of God's love, goodness…
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Pride Problem
Sometimes it's hard for me to admit, "I have a pride problem." I seem to see this issue in others, but pride can keep me blind to my own lack of humility. This podcast will help you to admit you battle pride and move you in the direction of embracing humility. This will enhance all of your...
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Guide Me, Lord Revisited
This is a repeat of the podcast I uploaded on May 27, 2021. I realize I need to be reminded God's guidance is always available for me. I confess I too often try to figure things out on my own which is not a good strategy. This podcast will help you to see the importance of God's guidance and help...
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Redeemed
A redeemer is "a person who buys back or restores what was lost." That's what Jesus did for us in regard to our broken relationship with God. This podcast will help you celebrate Jesus as Redeemer and encourage you to tell others you've been redeemed, and that they can be also. Email me at...
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Redeemed
A redeemer is "a person who buys back or restores what was lost." That's what Jesus did for us in regard to our broken relationship with God. This podcast will help you celebrate Jesus as Redeemer and encourage you to tell others you've been redeemed, and that they can be also. Email me at...
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Freedom From Self-Protection
Do you withdraw from difficult situations or relationships to protect yourself emotionally—ignoring the call of God to reach out and minister? This podcast will help you to renounce the habit of self-protection and to seek the Lord and ask Him, "What do I do next?" You will be amazed at how God...
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Remember Who God Is
As I get older, I battle some remembering problems. However, my goal is to always remember who God is and all He has done for me. As I remember and experience God for who He truly is, my life is more fulfilled and joyful. This podcast will help you to get to know, remember, and experience the…
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Letting Go of Fear of the Future
Some days I can slip into having fear of the future. Often this fear involves two areas of my life--family and finances. This podcast will help you to let go of fear of the future as you trust that God is already there, He knows your future, and He is always present to give you strength to face...
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Becoming An Overcomer
My goal has been that instead of being overcome by the problems and pressures of this life, I can be an overcomer through Jesus Christ. This podcast will help you to do that.
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Let Your Light Shine
Each one of us can shine our lights into someone's dark world—even if we feel we are in some darkness ourselves. Sometimes that is what keeps me going during hard times—to be able to reach out to others and give hope even when I'm battling hopelessness in certain situations. My goal for my...
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Christ in You
I know that Christ is in me, but sometimes this fact is not so evident to those observing my life. This podcast will help to make Christ in you something that can be seen by others and sensed by you. Email me at [email protected].
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No Room Revisited
We have all heard about how there was no room in the inn for Mary and Joseph, so that Jesus was born in a manger. In our lives because of many distractions, we Christians can sometimes have a "no room" attitude when it comes to Jesus. This podcast will help you to overcome distractions of this...
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Always
In hard times, it can be helpful to our souls to cling to God's always promises. This podcast will encourage you with several of those promises and help you to know that they apply to you. Email me at [email protected]
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Goodness and Mercy Shall Follow
God has showed me a promise in Psalm 23 that encourages me. It says "His mercy and goodness shall follow me." I have seen this happen over and over. This podcast will explain what that means and how you can have that happen in your life--even in hard times. Email me at [email protected]
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Don't Get Even
Even though we know God's way is to show love even so and even though, we can slip into having a vengeful attitude—especially toward people who hurt us repeatedly and show no remorse. With God's help we can choose to obey His instruction not to repay evil for evil. This podcast will help you to...
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Letting Go Again
How often people say, "Let go and let God." Letting go is hard, and continuing to stay in that "let go" mode sometimes seems impossible since we humans tend to try to control people and situations. This podcast will help you to let go again and once more trust God to be in control. Contact me at...
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Alone With God
Deep down we Christians know how important time alone with God is. Yet there are obstacles in our lives that can seem to prevent this from happening. This podcast will help you to deal with those obstacles and make time alone with God a priority. Email me at [email protected]
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I Am Safe
Sometimes I feel emotionally unsafe in certain relationships. The truth is people can't always be trusted to respond in loving ways or accept me as I am. However, as I trust the Lord, I know that I am safe because of Him. He is my protector, my refuge, the one who keeps me safe. This podcast will...
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The Mother Love of God
For those who feel their mothers didn't love them in the way they needed or those who miss their mothers who have passed on or left their lives, there is good news. God is not only a loving father, but He also loves us like a mother. This podcast will help you to embrace and experience the mother...
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Set Free From Stupid
Sometimes I say, "How could that person do something so stupid?" Then I'm reminded I made stupid choices before I knew the Lord, and sometimes since my salvation when I get disconnected from Him. This podcast will help you to stay in touch with God and His wisdom and help others to do the same....
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Restore My Soul
No matter how shaky your faith becomes, God desires to restore your soul. It may seem that you are too far gone, but that's not how the Lord sees your situation. This podcast will help you to open the door to be restored by the Lord. (Rerun of 4/15/21 podcast) Contact me at [email protected]
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God's Love Never Fails
Sometimes I feel like a failure when I fail to get others to love me or to do the right thing. These goals only lead to frustration. However, when I determine to allow God's unfailing love to flow to me and through me, my perspective and life improves. This podcast will remind you of God's...
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Abandonment Issues
I confess that sometimes I speak about feeling abandoned by people in my life in my past and in the present. However, God has an abandonment issue that is more pressing. It is based on this question, "Have you abandoned yourself to Me?" This podcast will help you to abandon yourself to the Lord…
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Heavenly Peace
Often I feel unrest in my soul. What I long for is God's heavenly peace which is sung about in the Christmas song "Silent Night." The good news is that I can receive His peace which He offers to all those who are His. This podcast will help you to receive God's peace which Jesus brought to this...
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Loving Like Jesus
The great challenge for a Christian can be to love like Jesus who tells us to not only love those who treat us kindly but also to love those who don't. This podcast will assist you on your journey toward that high goal of "Loving Like Jesus." Email me at [email protected].
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Love Hardly Notices
Forgiveness is something I've struggled with since I can remember. When I read the love verses in 1 Corinthians 13, verse 5 reminds me how important forgiveness is if I am to be like Christ. Two different Bible versions say it in ways that have really caught my attention: "Love…will hardly even...
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Worry Versus Worship
Sometimes we don't realize how worry has grabbed hold of our thoughts and emotions. This podcast will help you to identify worry and discover how to begin worshiping instead, so worries can melt away. Worries make us weary. Worship brings wonderment--"awed admiration" for how God loves us and is...
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Carry Me Revisited
Although I don't mention the word grief in this podcast, allowing God to carry us through grief can help us so much on the grief journey. This podcast will help you to reach the point during every kind of hard times where you can fully depend on God as you allow Him to carry you. Email me at...
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The Healing Power of Tears Revisited
As I revisit my podcasts related to grief, I'm reminded and am encouraged by the healing power of shedding tears. This podcast will help you to embrace the benefits of shedding tears. Jesus wept, and God has given us the gift of tears to help us as we grieve both over the death of our loved ones...
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Grief/Keep Your Eyes on Jesus to Defeat Depression Revisited
This podcast will help you take your focus off of your circumstances such as those related to grief and loss and put it on Jesus. The goal is this: "Arise [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you--rise to a new life!] Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord),...
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Food, Feelings, and Grief Revisited
This podcast will help you put food in its proper place, so instead of turning to food to dull your emotions as you grieve, you can turn to the Lord to help you deal with them. Contact me at [email protected]
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Prayer and Grief Revisited
When we grieve, we may feel that prayer is difficult. This podcast will encourage you to continue to pray in the valley of grief, so you can keep the connection open to the Lord, who is a vital source of comfort in our grief. Contact me at [email protected]
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People Help Us Grieve Revisited
When I grieve, I sometimes want to isolate from people. This can lead me to sink deeper in my grief and even into debilitating depression. When I allow God's people to help me grieve, I'm uplifted and even brought to the place where I can help others in their grief. This podcast will help you to...
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Grief and Gods Promises Revisited
During times of grief and loss, it can seem that people have broken their promises. However, God keeps His promises, and holding onto them can help us as we grieve. This podcast will remind you that God's promises hold true even in times of deep grief. Email me at [email protected]
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Anger and Grief Revisited
Some of us feel that anger is wrong, and so we stuff it down. Doing this during grief can slow down the grief process. The Word tells us to be angry, but don't sin. (See Ephesians 4:26). This podcast will help you to do that and to work through your anger as you grieve. Email me at...
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Trusting God In Tragedy Revisited
This podcast will help you to deal with tragedies, griefs, and losses and the many whys that can flood your soul and sometimes keep you from moving on in the grief process. It will help you to return to or to keep on seeing God as trustworthy. Note: the first time I uploaded this podcast, I left...
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Praising My Way Through Grief Revisited
When I first posted my podcasts, I did a series on grief. I am running that series again as I go through a new season of grief. This podcast speaks of a tragic death in my family. That happened a number of years ago, and God brought me through it miraculously. Lately, I'm dealing with a new…
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You Are Wanted
I have battled feeling unwanted ever since I was a child. In many areas of my life, there are people who trigger these feelings in me. The good news is that no matter how I may be treated or may feel like I'm someone that's unwanted, God wants me. This podcast will help you to be set free from...
About this show
This podcast is to help you become free, so you can be all God has called you to be. You will discover keys to overcoming your hurtful past, so you can receive inner healing. You'll learn how to get unstuck from destructive habits, discover your gifts and talents and how to use them, and experience God's presence, power, peace, and love more fully. You will be encouraged to not only be set free from, but to something—fully embracing God's call on your life, so you can accomplish all you were put on this earth to do.
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Elaine Creasman
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