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213. Breaking Strongholds of the Enemy

Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson

Release Date: 11/10/2025

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In this powerful episode of the Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast, licensed therapist and faith encourager Heidi Mortenson guides listeners through breaking free from the mental, emotional, and spiritual strongholds that keep us bound. Rooted in biblical truth and clinical insight, Heidi helps you identify lies from the enemy, renew your mind through God’s Word, and walk boldly in your true identity as a child of God.

This episode isn’t just about awareness—it’s about activation. You’ll walk away with practical tools, Scripture-based declarations, and spiritual authority to overcome fear, shame, and lies that have held you back. Jesus has already won—now it’s time to walk in that victory.

🔍 In This Episode, You Will Discover:

  • 🌸 How to embrace your new identity in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17)
  • ⚔️ What strongholds are and how the enemy uses them to distort truth (2 Corinthians 10:4–5)
  • 💡 How to renew your mind through biblical truth and declaration
  • 🕊️ The reality that the enemy is real—but defeated (1 Peter 5:8)
  • 🔥 What it means to walk in your God-given authority and freedom (Luke 10:19)
  • 💖 A powerful activation prayer and declaration segment to break lies and release truth over your life

🙌 Activation: Breaking Lies & Declaring Truth

Heidi leads listeners through a series of biblical declarations, breaking the lies of unworthiness, shame, and fear in the name of Jesus. You’ll replace every false label with God’s truth—declaring love, worth, beauty, and identity as a daughter or son of the King.

“The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” — 2 Corinthians 10:4-5

“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” — John 8:36

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🕊️ Step into your freedom.
It’s time to break every stronghold of the enemy and walk boldly in the truth of who God says you are.

If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!