Hearts Set Free podcast

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 holding back on loving them--on letting the love of Christ flow through me. This podcast will help you to receive the grace to love others extravagantly--the way Jesus loves you and everyone else.  Email me at [email protected] 

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 that God is in control and can be trusted. It will also help you to understand the control freaks in your life. Email me at [email protected]  

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 and extend it to others—even those who seem so far away from God. Email me at [email protected]  

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 willing to wait until He reveals it.  Contact me at [email protected]   

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. This podcast will help you to celebrate Jesus as King of kings and assist you in having him as King in your everyday life. Email me at [email protected]

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, the more I see that He is a God who builds up. He wants me to do the same. When I'm struggling with the urge to criticize, He brings to mind the good in the people around me to speak out loud to them—qualities I hadn't noticed on my own. What a difference that has made in relating to others. I'm enjoying closeness I never thought possible. If you tend to criticize instead of encourage, this podcast will help you learn how to build up rather than tear down. Mastering this art will restore the joy in your relationships. Email me at [email protected]

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, and provision..." Lately, I saw that once again I had slipped into the pit of self-pity because of difficult circumstances in my life. Maybe you're there too. This podcast will help you break free from self-pity and bring you to the place of celebrating God's love, goodness, and provision, despite hard times. Email me at [email protected]   

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 relationships including Your relationship with the Lord. Email me at [email protected]

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 you to call out for it receive it. As we trust and respond to His guidance, wondrous things will happen. Email me at [email protected].  

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 [email protected]

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 [email protected]

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 will use you to bring healing to the hurting. Thank you to Julie Upman for providing the photo for this month's podcast.  email me at [email protected] 

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 names of God in your Christian life. Email me at [email protected] 

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 whatever life may bring. Email me at [email protected] 

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. 

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 Christian life is "to let my light shine." This podcast will help you do just that.  

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].

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 world and of your thoughts and emotions, so that you can always make room for God and His agenda in your life. Email me at [email protected]

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]

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]

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 turn your vengeful heart into a loving heart as you seek to leave the matter in God's hands believing in His promises. Doing so will return you to a place of peace and joy. Email me at [email protected]

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 [email protected]

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]

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 help you move closer to experiencing the security and safety the Lord offers—no matter what's happening around you.  

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 love of God. Email me at [email protected]

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. email me at [email protected] 

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] 

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 unfailing love and how to embrace it more fully. Email me at [email protected]

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, so you can experience the joy He has for you. Contact me at [email protected] 

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 earth. 

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].

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 notice when others do it wrong" (TLB) and "Love…is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]." This podcast will help you to embrace these words and live them out in your life. Email me at [email protected].

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 working in our lives. Email me at [email protected]. 

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 [email protected]

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 and over other losses in our lives. Email me at emcreasman.com

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), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you" (Isaiah 60:1 AMPC) Contact me at [email protected]

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]

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]  

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 open up your heart to receive comfort from God's people. Email me at [email protected]

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] 

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 [email protected] 

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 off what the Lord spoke to my husband during the night. This time I decided to include it since I've been studying spiritual warfare lately, and it addresses how the enemy works on our minds during times of grief and loss. In that section I left out a part that was personal to me and my situation about my loved one being in God's arms and related assurances. The rest of it seems applicable to most cases of grief and loss. Email me at [email protected]

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 death, but I'm discovering again how helpful praise is in the grief process. This podcast will help you to embrace praise, despite how you feel. There is so much to praise God for--even in times like these.  Email me at [email protected] 

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 those "I'm unwanted" feelings and draw closer to the Lord and believe the truth of "I am wanted by Him." Email me at [email protected]

Sometimes I declare that I'll never change in various areas of my life. Or I proclaim, "He'll never change." The truth is I have changed, and others change too as we draw close to the Lord and allow Him to be in charge of the transformation process. This podcast will help you to believe change is possible and to continue in the process of God changing you. Email me at [email protected] 

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 world and of your thoughts and emotions, so that you can make room for God and His agenda in your life. Email me at [email protected] 

I want to be ready, but too often I get caught up in other Bes like "Be Busy." This podcast will help you to stay prepared to share the good news of Jesus to those who cross your path. Interruptions will be transformed into divine appointments.  email me at [email protected] 

God wants to give us the freedom to express our emotions whether through tears or laughter. Both are gifts from him. I've had a problem with holding back on each. This podcast will help to set you free to laugh, using laughter to bring healing to your soul and to the souls of others.  email me at [email protected]    

Sometimes I feel like God does not like His children to be needy. I've discovered that God loves when I call out to Him, "I need You." Too often I add words to that phrase which are about telling God what to do: "I need You to..." This podcast will help you to realize your need for God and to keep Him as your number one resource. Email me at [email protected]            

As much as I'd like to, I can't avoid rejection. When it happens it hurts, and I can feel betrayed and cast aside. What's important is how I respond to rejection. Too often I have reacted with retaliation.  This podcast will help you to have a godly response when you are rejected.  email me at [email protected]