Becoming a Powerful Woman - Part 1 | The Jonathan and Melissa Helser Podcast
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- What does it mean to be a powerful woman? In this podcast episode, Melissa Helser dialogues with Justina Stevens, Jessie Miller, & Phyllis Unkefer (three core leaders in our community) about living as rooted, powerful women in this day and age. This conversation centers around personal stories from each of the women about the process and reward of tending to their hearts, minds, and souls with the Lord.
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Powerful! As I anticipate my 16 year old granddaughter coming to stay with us for awhile, I'm grateful. Please join me in praying for the emotional pain of bullying to be healed, and for her to understand her worth.
Will be praying for you all ❤
Wow, this is so deep. Im so disconnected and lonely. These woman are so blessed to have what they have with each other.
God bless you dear Sister! ❤
How do my daughter and I get to these retreats to not be alone as well. Lord thank you for help in advance.🙏
I feel the same way, you’re not alone in that sense ❤
I have been struggling with loneliness too. I understand. Praying for you.
I know exactly how you feel, I always feel disconnected from other people and very
lonely. Having no friends doesn't help.
I am in my 20s and I just lost my baby, I feel so stuck on how to process the hurt and loss on Earth. Thank you for these videos and allowing others to have the space and permission they need to feel and be human. Not to be stuck in their feelings but to connect deeper with the Lord in order to see Victory.
Praying for you ❤️
I'm so sorry for the loss of your baby 😢
Praying with you Sis🙏🏽🙏🏽 it gets more bearable, I promise❤
I pray that the Lord will heal you and keep you strong 😢🥹❤️😊
Praying for you
Please do these podcasts more often. I really appreciate and need this stuff! I'm navigating a lot of changes in life, physical and emotional and spiritual and I am definitely too old to be in any of your camps. I'm so deeply grateful for each podcast! Thank you!
WOW WOW WOW! Only 12 minutes in and had me feeling deep emotion and crying in my car lol. 20 minutes in and I’m like wait rewind I need to write that down. Ok now more more I want more! Thank you ladies and thank you Jesus for what you’ve done and our doing in and through these mighty women.
So powerful! My husband and I talked about this on our walk. Let Jesus lead.
YES! journaling with God and writing out my conversations with Him, has been the absolute game changer for me too. Hearing His voice is the most important thing! One word from Him changes me, frees me. He is so tender, loving, kind, beautiful!
We need more communities and friend groups like this. Healing and growing together into His likeness and love.
Thank you ladies for being real with us. If I was in the US, I would have visited a long time ago....probably moved nearby... Lord willing ☺️💞
Coming across this Podcast feels like God kissing my heart saying I see you, I hear you, I love you, I’m here for you snd so are these ladies… who are doing my will through this conversation😭🙌🏾❤️
This is true sisterhood.... actually not performing but just being realistic and vulnerable ❤❤❤❤
I had to struggle to listen to this podcast, not because it wasn't incredibly edifying, but because I realize I have a very distanced relationship with my emotional world. Because of this, it was hard to listen to other women talk about their feelings in tender and diplomatic tones. It would have been easier for me if they were harsher and more matter of fact. It was a huge challenge, but as I listened to their words, I realized that this is a huge area that needs work for me. I tend to compartmentalize my emotions so that I can continue to function "normally" in daily life. The conversation really had many relatable points, and also points of uncomfortable tension that were necessary to bring the point home. Thank you.
😮 oh now I am seeing vulnerability as power in
Relationship .connection is beautiful
This is so powerful, wish I had the opportunity to live among others in this level of truth and in Christ.
Becoming a Powerful Woman - Part 1 offers such profound insights and inspiration. Can't wait to delve deeper into this empowering journey with Jonathan and Melissa Helser!"
As an older women of 67 years, & believer for 40+. Melissa, you are so correct about trials and tribulations as a 20-year-old, but it takes years of waiting with Jesus to see the fruit of the frustration and the truths to grow into the woman of sitting with Jesus at every minutes.
That conversation was so revealing and vulnerable such great friendships , i want that. So so good . Thank you!!
The dear person that's reading this, we don't know each other but I wish you all the best in life❤ don't ever blame yourself, accept things and go forward. Your smile is precious and a key to a happy life…
Thank you
I am watching this as I work so I’m getting in and out of my car so I have to pause it while I go to do a job real quick and then I get back in my car and I start to play it again and every time I start to play it again. Here comes the tears. I hear something that I needed to hear. I can’t even explain to you how deeply this is touching me. I’ve sent it to my daughter and I keep texting her and I really hope that she’ll take the time to listen because there’s a lot in here that she needs to hear as a new mother to twins as a young woman who lost her d dad as a teenager as a young woman who had to deal with her mom not being completely present during that time sinking into my alcoholism. This video will be something that I watch over and over again because I just feel some of the words so deeply. And I think God‘s going to use it as a tool to help me heal in so many areas.
This was beautiful. I’m going through the pain of my husband being unfaithful to our marriage . There was so much powerful nuggets that I learn today. How to look at my feeling and emotions in a different way.
Thank you for sharing.
I pray that I could find godly friends like you all have.
Wow, I am 16 and I really appreciate the wisdom you ladies have just taught me. God bless you all and your schools.
This is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!!! I would only point out one thing I noticed: When you talk about anxiety, depression, sickness, etc…be careful not to say “my _____” these things are not ours and by speaking the name of Jesus and the Word over these spirits, they have to leave, because we have all dominion and authority through Jesus! My church family has been doing a Bible study on what our dominion and authority is and it’s caused us all to have to rethink how we talk at times…this by no means is to be negative, more so to just be enlightened. You women are blessed and this podcast has blessed me tremendously!!!
Wonerful Samantha
this is so precious. hitting me right where I'm at. thank you so much and praise Jesus for being so full of lovingkindness
Listening to this soothes my weary soul - thank you so much for sharing your hearts. xx
This is soooo authentic 😍😍😍
This is the most realistic podcast I have ever seen. Thanks for been vulnerable an transparent 🙏🏽
This is so GOOD
I have been feeling so disconnected from God the last couple months and have been desperate to get it back. I’ve been searching for conversations exactly like this to help guide me back to Him & to learn from and listen to faith-filled women.
Thank you so much for this, you have no idea what this one hour has done to realign my faith and connection with God. I need 1000 more of these videos. ❤
Your stories and reflections have blessed me so much. Ironic to the title of powerful women I’m walking away with so much encouragement to surrender to Jesus. Thank you ❤
Me too! The Lord put, Psalms Search Me Oh God on my heart today.. I wrote it down... And it came up in conversation about half way through. So much resonated with me in this podcast. Thank you.
Thank you for this podcast. Really need this everyday cause it’s somehow refreshes my heart, my mind and my soul. It also helps me to see the beautiful path God has created me. ♥️♥️♥️
I feel like I'm sitting there with you❤. So cozy and nice. More of this please.
I absolutely needed this.... Although I don't personally have a friend group as meaningful and fruitful as you all have; I felt like I was able to experience what that would be like in this podcast episode 🥺 Thank you for sharing and God bless you all 🤍
Me too! So good
So goood, thank you
Wow Phyllis I total get what your saying about control! It spoke to me big time! And learning to yield wow. That is where the Lord is taking me at this time. That next layer being peeled back. He says this is where we are digging in deep now. 🙌🏽
This is also so needed for us as man! (We all need to learn to be honest to God and each other. Not try to hide our weakness and our mess. Becoming mature in our neediness)
I listen to this song when I was in the middle of my depression. I was breaking down in my car looking for an answer. I wanted to give up. This song came on and I just lost it I started to praise and with every single word I could feel God taking the pain away. ❤ God is not finished with me yet. 😊
Women communing and sharing in Christ. This was beautiful
Powerful! Such a blessing!! Thank you so much, ladies 😍
Thank you so much for sharing such intimate and warm conversations…a real insight into the beauty of the Lords ways
16 minutes into this and already healing. Every testimony soothes my soul. I want to be raw with God too
😢😢😢😢❤ I needed this! Thank you ladies!
I relate so much to Justina, I am an artist as well. And it has taken me so much time to understand that I do belong to God and that I am a part of His family. I am His masterpiece.
Thank you for this lovely contribution to my life.
This video comes right on time for me as I am going through a time of inner healing. Glory to God for who he is!
Amazing! Thank you for this, felt like Holy Ground the whole time. Looking forward to Part 2.
Thank you for this real, deep and beautiful conversation
Yes!🙌🏼😭🔥🔥🔥
I am 68 and a Christian for 40 years and this is where I am spiritually - to show myself grace and mercy. Lately I have been saying I am not going to beat myself up - I am showing myself grace and mercy. The “we are weak” but He is Strong. Depending on Him and Leaning on Him. 🙏🏻
So beautiful, thank your for holding a space for this kind of community & conversation !
This was such a powerful session‼️🔥🔥🔥... watching y'all unfold before each other helped me to unfold before myself and show much more mercy to knowing my grace to myself in weakness is where the true power is🔥🔥🔥🤲🤲
So powerful and insightful! Thank you for being so honest & vulnerable.
Thank you Ladies. Wow. 😢this healed my heart today. So much truth.
Thank you so much for sharing, ladies!
This I need - thank you for the truth of your fellowhip!
Melissa ,I Just want to Come and hug you....What you shared is so good 👍
This Video , help me so much….thank you that you Open your ❤ for The world…this simple Speack Touch My Heart.
It found me,, in a little little town ( with 1200 people)….God put me here, I believe so…… and so Just here from 4 years…. And i Don ‚t have a group of woman …..
This is so deep and stunning!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for this beautiful and helpful discussion! It feels like a weight has lifted just listening to this.
And YES… please pray for me… as a mother 60 year old 😅… as a spirital mum for beautys women in My Life… as housewife … and for all I‘m to be put here in this town… to be used by The love of Jesus.
So , 😊I‘m in south germany Franken … and thanks you so much ,and send you much XXOX
I felt that as a Puerto Rican women our passion / emotion is always said to us it’s too much or you’re too much but I can’t be anything else bc it goes against my heart
Thank you. Deeply. 🙌🙏🙌🙏
I Love Love Love Melissa for really being genuine in her relationship with God ,...and the way she worship is really Healing and powerful ✨ 💖
Thank you for making these videos and allowing others into your community! I wonder if you realize how rare these kinds of conversations are for both men & women? So many are longing for this kind of relationship and can’t find it. People in general are afraid to be this vulnerable! I have women in my home every Monday evening for the past 3 years trying to be this kind of safe place. This is beautiful to listen to “Wounded Healers” that is a beautiful description of who we are! Thank you again I am truly blessed and grateful to witness this way of “working out our salvation”
Praying for you
THANK YOU!!!!
I honestly SOOOOO needed this today! Incredibly insightful and deeply healing. Thank you all ❤
This is great! This is the place i have been in conversation with ladies this year. Curt thompson, author of "the soul of shame" speaks to these negative thought loops as the voice of shame and its in community we rewrite these loops. I highly recommend his book!
Jessie, I feel like you told my exact story 💕
Please tell the lady who talked about feeling safe by understanding things, not trusting the Lord, leaning on her own understanding, being a thinker …please tell her thank you for sharing. That’s exactly me and I’m in a health place and am really really struggling to stop trying to figure out things the doctors haven’t been able to figure out. And trust God. I don’t know anyone personally who struggles in this way so thank her please.
Wow. Thank you for this. 💗
Thank you ladies 🎉 Beautiful conversation🌻Very helpful and confirmed that when I yield to obedience than sacrifice…this is when I’m powerful-Matt 16:25(NLT)🍃
😭😭 thank you for this!!
Love this...Thank you..
THIS ❤is lifechanging - Thank you deeply each one of you for sharing your precious hearts. Can you help me with the Name of the Book Melissa mentioned regarding anxiety? That would be amazing. Love Katharina
So glad this has been helpful for you! The book Melissa referenced is "The Voice of the Heart" by Chip Dodd
Life changing
I just love how farm-to-table this whole community is.
Love this!! I can't wait for part 2! I hope y'all have waaaaay more of these!!!! Please!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Part 2 is coming so soon! Thank you for your encouragement!
Ufff this , this is Gold thank you for sharing from the most honest parts of your hearts it’s an honor to hear and be able to witness vulnerability and how genuinely all of you do community as women. These answers were so so relatable.
I am trying to ignite my love for Jesus again after losing the vision of His path. I just love how you are all speaking about how imperfect we are, it made me feel better. I really resonate with what everyone was saying. I hope that He will accept me into his arms again. I’m afraid I have made too many mistakes. Loved listening❤
God will ALWAYS wrap you in his arms Michelle. No mistake is too great. Bless you,
God bless you ❤
I liked hearing about Justina's experience with reacting to hard things by being depressed. That is not my personal response, but it was such a window into thinking process of those who do. Very helpful, thanks for sharing :) (all of you!)
Thank You for this podcast. I pulled away from many ministry because I am not built like them. I believe in "Simplicity in Christ" yet many ministries want to entertain and no deliverance. I am very creative and I use to be in a beautiful place of intimacy in Christ. 2023 is a strange place. I removed myself from ministries discouraged. I am so drained from everything.
I think that many times, as Christians, we compare ourselves with the people in ministry. They seem strong, faithful, consistent. We see them do all kinds of things, not knowing the condition of their hearts, and if they are really doing it for the Lord or their own glory. I believe God delights in our simplicity. We don’t need to strive to do “big” things because when we end up trying to have control over everything we put God aside, causing ourselves to become weary. God has a purpose for you and you don’t need to be built like others, let him write your story, and allow His peace to take over.
Being powerful is admitting we need a highest power and thats GOD. ❤
Such a great conversation. Similar to Phyllis, God has ministered to me through dance, particularly salsa/bachata lead and follow submission. My best dance partners were the men who could lead well and made me feel more secure.
Really appreciate this. It empowered me to think, it might be ok to make decisions sometimes for my own well-being and soul peace. I always want to please my Father in Heaven and out His Will above mine but also, I’m so burnt out and have been wrestling about giving up work to consecrate myself more fully to Christ. It’s an inward pull I feel but many people don’t understand. I feel foolish but your conversation made me feel that maybe, it’s ok. Thank you girls.
I have been living with psoriatic arthritis for 25 years. Melissa, your words resonated in 100 ways. Sadness and sorrow, and hope and joy in Christ exist side by side. I am trying to soak my life in Jesus and and I am also a creative. Those two things keep me connected to life. I also hide and am home bound, because I feel needy and I have experienced rejection because of it. Most of my Christian friends have walked away, not because they did not love me at one time, but because their own lives are complicated. A best friend tells me that she misses who I was and it pains her to see what the disease has done. She isn't coming around much anymore, because she is embarrassed that I use a walker and sometimes a wheelchair. The sorrow in my heart is deep. However, the Lord gave me a promise that he would heal me and heal me again, until I am healed and I hold fast to His promise and to Him.
“One image bearer isn’t enough” Mmmmmmmm ♥️♥️♥️
So powerful Thank You! How do my daughter and I get plugged into this ministry…Oh Father we need help so much struggle to soar above. My daughter is an artist. Fellowship needed. ❤🙏
Sorry for this long comment but hink this video found me while I was searching an interesting and powerful podcast about women empowerment, I'm in my late 20's, right now there's a lot of wonderful happening on my surrounding: my family is getting bless by many things but talking personally about myself after graduating (2022) starting to isolate myself because I felt like I’m behind everyone (closest friends) but at the same time I don’t feel comfortable with them, the woman who spoke about the dancing classes she was taking caught my attention, cuz I used to dance since two years old and consciously at 14 years old I went back to it until my 23 years I danced, from my 20 - 23 I joined the dance team, I felt amazing and was my best point as a dancer when I turned 24 I hurt my foot and quit the classic ballet (which was my favourite topic) PART1
PART 2: I continue dancing other topics but started to felt unsecured and ashamed of some things when it comes to my dance terms and I moved from city so quit completely, then I came back to my home city and I came back to where I was familiar to work and to do exercise but also at my 20 I lose faith in God and my spirituality (thought things went throu: took therapy and tried to calm myself by having a quite lifestyle, still without God) finally I could graduate in my 26 years and started working but still uncomfortable with myself but okay with life, not with God but starting to think, maybe, definitely something else was missing: GOD.
PART 3: I went back to therapy just to keep taking my thoughts out and I was talking with my therapist I wanted to go back to a group or something easy and fun to getting my faith back but I was diagnosed with social anxiety so was kinda though for me to socialize and go back to a “group”, I found an old friend of mine who met through religious groups and I talked with her for a long time and she suggested me to go to the group she changed to, so I did but there was this other girl that I didn’t feel comfortable being around with and I wasn’t that into the group so I didn’t fully joined...
PART 4: I met another girl who liked the same K-pop group as me I started to talk with and felt more comfortable and she is more believer than me but I’m still finding ways to connect with my faith, so this year I back to dance even on stage and I felt fun instead of “the pride of being a dancer” and I was talking with this friend and she told me “Maybe if you take dance again, because you like it, as a way to connect with your faith/Jesus would be easier” and what the woman said about the dancing classes she was going was a cool and interesting way to hear cuz “YES, IF I DANCE AGAIN BUT I ASK TO JESUS TO DANCE WITH ME AND HELP ME AGAIN WOULD BE SO MUCH EASIER, COOL AND EASIER”.
SO THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU AND TO UA-cam FOR THIS RECOMENDATION. 🙂HAVE A GOOD LIFE. 🌼🌻
I haven't here yet like where I'm from. That's why God led me to your talk (in my prayer time)...to tell me...hey I'm here
Thank you Melissa for your 🧡 to want to lead women to be powerful. You and Jonathan’s music gave me powerful words 🔥 when my words lacking power(?) In the spiritual it is though my mourh has a muzzle! The day is coming when I will roar just like you 🧡 ‼️ Powerful to me is to be the plumline [Isaiah 28:17 And I will make justice the line,
and righteousness the plumb line;
and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
and waters will overwhelm the shelter-
I continue to stand and trust God after being relentlessly oppressed & buffetted in every area of life as the world watches, judges, and oftentimes rejects me. They don’t realize I am rich - in faith, trust, hope, and spiritual fruits - God has a plan‼️ So, like you with your illness I will persevere with mine. He is with me when I have my vulnerable moments! Deep and permanent JOY Is the result - it is my super strength‼️ SO STAND✝️ God bless you🧡
Yes the intimacy 🥹❤️🙌
So this Open My heart❤ and consouls me… uowow…
Wow I stumbled upon this. Im so broken and lonely I related to so much of this.
If you believe in God raise your hands
I need to learn to be a powerful follow.
Help me, Holy Spirit.
I love this conversation but the background noise of: yes, love this, wow, so good, so beautiful, right etc... from the other ladies when they are "listening" are very distracting... is this a cultural thing in the US that I am missing? I understand they want to be assuring and supportive but at some point it becomes very distracting... Sorry for the weird message hahaha I really aprreciate this work, very powerful words
😢😭😭this Touch me ,Right now….because I‘m going throught this Same things….and I‘m Pressing…in The Land ….where i be …
Matthew 5:16
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
So so good thank you. Can you share the Chip Dodd resources that you mentioned? Please keep doing these!
We've been really impacted by Chip Dodd's book, "The Voice of the Heart" as well as his accompanying podcast!
TIME STAMPS PLEASE. I’m enjoying it at the moment but can’t keep up throughout the day