ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Have you ever "surrendered" something to God—while secretly hoping your surrender would finally make Him change the situation?
Sometimes control doesn't look like control. It looks like helping. Fixing. Praying harder. Being extra kind. Trying to say exactly the right thing. Or even telling God, "I give this completely to You," while quietly expecting a particular outcome in return.
In this episode of the Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast, Heidi explores the difference between true biblical surrender and spiritualized control—and why trauma, relational pain, and a dysregulated nervous system can make letting go feel so difficult.
Using a simple dream about mowing someone else's lawn, Heidi asks a powerful question:
Am I tending what God has actually given me to tend—or am I trying to manage something that belongs to someone else?
In this episode, you'll learn:
- How control can disguise itself as love, helping, prayer, or surrender
- Why trauma and nervous-system activation can make control feel like safety
- How to distinguish what belongs to God, what belongs to you, and what belongs to another person
- Why trusting God does not require blindly trusting people
- How to carry hope for someone's transformation without making yourself responsible for producing it
"Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, 'But Lord, what about this man?' Jesus said to him, 'If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.'" ~ John 21:21–22 (NKJV)
Surrender isn't trusting God to give me the outcome I want. Surrender is trusting God with the outcome.
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