Mary Lindow ~ The Messenger Podcast

About Mary Lindow ~ The Messenger Podcast

This podcast is created with the intention of giving you a time of resting and learning to hear the voice of the Lord while allowing Him to speak into your life through 10 to 25 minute messages and teaching insights. Mary Lindow serves thorough mentoring, traveling as a teacher and voice of encouragement. Mary also ministers as a vocalist and is a Pastoral Counselor. Visit www.marylindow.com for information and fresh inspiration.

Publisher

Mary Lindow

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Aug 2009

Latest episode

2 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

110 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Jul 2026

   Choices VS. Consequences - "SELF HELP” - “NO HELP" - OR "GOD'S HELP?”

   By Mary Lindow THERE’S SO MUCH COMING OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA FROM DIFFERENT KINDS OF PUBLICATIONS! Strange doctrines, strange practicing of things and mixtures within Christianity that have become strange mixtures of belief in faith systems, and then there’s been a tremendous amount of deception and hiding. And more often than not, whenever there’s deception in doctrine or the way people are lead, you can usually find that there’s a mishandling of funds. So, we’re going to discuss some of the things that we need to have in place, in our lives!I need them, in order to be strong in the Lord in the power of his might, but also to walk wisely in this time! TODAY’S PODCAST IS GOING TO JUST GET RIGHT AT IT SO HERE WE GO! A seasoned and deep thinking friend and I had a phone conversation last week about what actual accountability and really being authentic looks like. SO MANY INDIVIDUALS WANT TO "LEAD" AND "BE IN CHARGE",but few have little space or time for feedback or equality of input from peers.I’ve found out that most “Self Help” is “No Help” at all. We can twist our own self treatments and assessments of things, and never really fully grow. Our souls like to have their own way and they fiercely resist honest confrontation and further personal work! We can become “prickly” and feel that we are not needing perhaps any additional life-course corrections or two! And quite possibly, we can pull ourselves inward and shut out the things that we just don’t want to “unpack” and talk about. We actively avoid any word of warning or concern, even when delivered in gentleness and love. WHEN THIS TYPE OF “LEAVE ME ALONE” BEHAVIOR OCCURS,you can count on either being "dismissed" as an “inconvenient annoyance” to people not wanting you or others to mess up their patterns, or in an even more passive but still aggressive move, you will be avoided, ignored, or simply have the standard “nothing is wrong, I’m just fine”, behaviors take place, in order to not stir up people’s familiar, comfortable, but sadly dysfunctional patterns of operating and denying the need for healthy input. ULTIMATELY, WE REALLY CAN'T "FIX" ANYONE.But we can have the insights and counsel from those whom we know and challenge us to not be emotionally entangled by the sadness that can swirl around your heart when cruelties and denial shut the door on honest and humble dialog. These dear mentors and teachers of truth, like the dear women I glean from (whom I trust explicitly to be gracious yet firm with me), are not competitive or overbearing. They just know the reality of what takes place when you choose not to continue to grow upwards and shows it outwards in how we treat others. What Is REAL Accountability?It's the willingness to let go of our "cloaking devices" and then intentionally allow godly individuals, applying wise, poised counsel, the open access to our tightly confined ways of functioning, and learning how to be set free from destructive thinking and dysfunctional behaviors. Introverts and Extroverts Both Have WaysThat They Can Actively Ignore or Avoid This Work of Maturing. WHEN THE DEEPER WORK IN OUR SOUL IS AVOIDED......after there have been some seasons of good personal work and change take place, it’s what Jesus talked about when he was teaching and mentoring his disciples, and telling them about how the “word seeds/ truth seeds” that he teaches about and plants into us, will only produce adult maturity/fruit, IF it’s allowed to be sown into the deeper places of our souls. SOME INDIVIDUALS CHOOSE TO GROW WHEN THINGS “FEEL BETTER” BUT THEY ARE STILL IN CONTROL OF HOW FAR THEY CHOOSE TO SURRENDER TO OPTIMUM GROWTH. That’s how the cares of our lives and our love for justifying our accumulated ways of thinking, living, avoiding and fretting, strangle or choke out our “putting down deeper roots” of maturing into adulthood. (Yes! Adulting!) And so... we therefore, live in “selective truth” about ourselves. This cause

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   10 May 2026

   "FINDING A PLACE OF SAFETY AND ACCEPTANCE"

   By Mary Lindow IT’S A STRANGE AND TWISTED WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN! Many well meaning people try hard to give pep talks, cheery texts and even send emails with profound  topics or inspirational contents all in the hope of giving a bit of relief from the ever increasing “noises” of an uncertain world. Jesus told us in John 16:33, “ I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world." WHAT DO YOU FEAR? This is not always an easy question to answer right away. Emotions and physical reactions to the question begin to swirl and elevate stress levels when anxiety creeps in. And, fear is a terror that can paralyze anyone if enough of it is allowed to enter our minds. And that is exactly where it first penetrates our peace. In the Mind. Fear; noun Fright, fearfulness, horror, alarm, panic, agitation, trepidation, dread, consternation, dismay, distress; anxiety, worry, angst, unease, uneasiness, apprehension, nervousness, foreboding. That’s quite an explanation of how many ways fear can move and affects us! WHEN WE FEAR WE MAKE POOR CHOICES If you are afraid or “fear” being misled by someone, you will limit your intimacy or openness with him or her. Many believers in need of healing emotionally from harsh or indifferent parenting tend to keep deep relationships or friendship at arm’s length in order to maintain a sense of control or privacy for themselves. This can become a form of “selective hearing or selective listening” if the individual feels that they need to remain aloof and frosty in order to gain the respect or validation that they feel that they need to exist. The problem with this cycle is that is creates a private  “terror” of not having a solid place of safety with a few dear and treasured people, flawed people… but those willing to also be vulnerable and open. Psalm 27:1 tells us that, “The LORD is my light and my salvation-- whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life-- of whom shall I be afraid?” Every situation, location, and relationship of our everyday lives is in some way broken.  As fallen creatures, the best we can ever do in this life is to know how to live in this broken-down house/earth suit, that’s our current address. And, nothing and no one but God himself, in the fullness of his time, can change where we live. So as we experience the reality of life in "this house”… Sometimes it will leave us confused and overwhelmed. Sometimes it will leave us hurt and angry. Sometimes people will give way to envy because the house or “life” of someone living nearby seems far less broken. Sometimes we just get weary of the stress of it all and long for a house in perfect repair. YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE! In those moments, those days, those seasons, remember that you are never on your own. The Master Builder has given us a copy of his renovation manual, the Bible. It will help us to understand why things are as broken as they are. It teaches us how to live well even in the midst of the brokenness. And it will explain the only way in which repair can ever happen. Just never forget that the Designer himself has moved into the house with you. You’ve not been left alone. You can rest assured of his presence and his wisdom. His grace has blessed you with both of these. However, He must be fully welcomed and invited into all of the “locked and hidden access areas” that others are not often trusted to enter into. He who offers you such grace and guidance will never ask you to do what you are not fully capable of doing by God’s grace and ever present Spirit. He will not demand things of you that are beyond your abilities. Our Lord is tender and kind. He knows who you are and he knows where you’re living. He knows how hard it is to live in your broken-down house because in the flesh he lived here himself. The Lord invites you to walk away from trying to figure it out on your own a

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   20 Mar 2026

   “The Control Connection and Lack of Accountability” - Those Who Reverence and Fear The Lord Are Stable, Predictable and Trustworthy

   By Mary Lindow I welcome you to today's podcast and look forward to sharing this message with you! I told you in my last podcast that had some things on my heart that we're concerning me as well as just observing some of the trajectory of things going on, I guess we could call it “largely in the Body of Christ”, as well as the Lord allowing exposures and allowing things to be brought to light when others choose to not fear and revere the Lord.  When they have no real understanding of how long he gives us before we are allowed to have that brought to light. In Ecclesiastes 8:5-6 it says, (This is the key scripture I’m using to address part of this message.) “Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure. For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a man's misery weighs heavily upon him.” BEING TESTED, STRETCHED, AND RESTRAINED. It’s in all of our lives as believers, we face times and settings where there is a feeling of being pulled and tested, stretched and restrained. Often, during these excruciating events, those who avoid personal character development tend to give unrestrained advice, spiritualized platitudes, and often, trumped up words of “so-called” prophetic inspiration to help us not suffer so much! As we begin to see the Lord's plan in all of this we also come to understand that if we are not first hearing His voice, His heart, His word in the matters that are straining us, nothing any man or woman says can bring the ultimate light of clarity and release! WE HAVE WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER, AND FALL. We all face seasons of change that correspond much like the four seasons we observe yearly. Nothing is more surprising than to have an interruption of what we anticipate to be what is "normal" for an earthly expectation, in one of those seasons. When a sudden ice storm blows in unexpected in the late spring and encrusts the tender blooms on fruit trees and garden plants, we are devastated by the loss of not only the blooms, but also the fruit it could have produced. It appears as if there has been a cruel storm, sent to cause crop failure. UPHEAVAL. LOSS. DISAPPOINTMENT. For many listening to or reading this message, you feel as if you have experienced a "Crop failure", perhaps several, and just can’t take one more aching disappointment. Many hearts have passed their tender agonies on to me on paper, in emails and through the telephone. ANGUISH HAS ITS OWN PERFUME I have also heard the whispers of the voices of darkness try to entice, with wearisome words of worry, paranoia and doubting! "Give up!" they say! “What good is this time of shaking doing?" "What possible good can come out of believing that there is something occurring that will bring a fresh and healthy  move of God’s goodness, when all seems to have stalled or strained?" In Galatians 5:19-21 Paul lists the works of the 'flesh' (“sinful nature”). In the middle he mentions “idolatry, sorcery” (NKJV) or “idolatry and witchcraft” (NIV). THE CONTROL CONNECTION! This is our fallen, rebellious, sinful nature. And if not brutally dealt with - this insidious root can deceive even the Christian believer if he of she is not transparent before God and is in humble, healthy and mature relational accountability to other members in the Body of Christ! (Not easy to do…but healthy!) But real godly accountability must be vulnerable at all times, wise in listening to advice, and not selective about what things WE want to be accountable for or not. “Delicatessen Accountability” is not going to bless your life, and it will frustrate your family and friends to tears. HUMILITY HAS NO PROBLEM EXPOSING ITSELF. It’s a natural outpouring of what is in the heart of a true follower when put under the pressure of the test of exposure. NOTICE IN THE BOOK OF ACTS THAT SOME BELIEVERS OPENLY CONFESSED THEIR SINS TO ONE ANOTHER! Acts 19:18 says, “Many of those who

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