Your True Identity with Ray Leight: Recent Episodes
Ray Leight
Welcome to Your True Identity podcast hosted by Ray Leight. Ray is an identity specialist with over 20 years’ experience partnering with God to bring healing and freedom to the church. On Your True Identity podcast Ray will interview people from all backgrounds in life who have experienced healing, received revelation of their identity, and are walking in their gifts and calling. In authentic and vulnerable conversations, you will learn spiritual and practical tools to transform your life from the fear, shame, or guilt of unresolved trauma into a lifestyle of freedom, peace, and joy. You will get to know yourself better and your heart will be empowered with freedom and the ability to choose.
Join us with Janet Newberry in today’s conversation on "Your True Identity." Janet is an author, speaker, podcaster, and love researcher. She brings freedom to the powerless by helping families nurture emotional well-being and relational growth at home. Listen in as Janet shares her journey of freedom from a childhood of codependent performance. You can be free!
Check out Janet's websites below:
https://www.janetnewberry.com
https://www.john15academy.com
Find more resources for your healing journey at these websites:
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-coaching
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org
In today’s conversation on Your True Identity, Ray talks about the sometimes-tumultuous experience of breaking free from the legalistic false religion of behavioral management and accepting your new identity in Christ. Join in as Ray shares his experience through the pendulum swing of believing the gospel of grace and shedding the false identity of just being a sinner. You can be free!
Find more information for your healing journey through the websites below:
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-coaching
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
https://www.faithbygrace.org/maturing-into-yourself-book
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Sharon McCune. Sharon has been in ministry for about 45 years. She is the cofounder of New Creation Church in Salt Lake City and leads their Freedom Ministries. Join us as Sharon shares her process of healing the anger of unresolved trauma from feeling unprotected as a child, and how God restored love in her heart. Listen in as she describes her revelation about her non-conscious beliefs that were influencing her and how she was able to resolve the resulting anger issues.
Find more resources and information from today's podcast at the links below:
https://www.newcreationslc.com
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
https://www.faithbygrace.org/maturing-into-yourself-book
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Pat McElwee. Pat and her husband Mark have pastored Heart of God Church in San Diego, CA for 25 years. She searched for years to find help and understand her own internal struggles, cycles, and childhood traumas. In 2008 after learning key foundational tools and finding freedom with the help of others on the same path she, and a dear friend, started using the tools to help others get unstuck. Join in and hear her story of loss, trauma, and healing.
http://www.heartofgodchurch.com
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
https://www.faithbygrace.org/maturing-into-yourself-book
Today on Your True Identity podcast, Ray discusses shame. If you struggle with shame at all and want to understand the causes of it, and the resolution for it, join in today's conversation. Listen in as Ray shares his struggles with shame and how the enemy uses it to steal our purpose and identity. Freedom is available.
Find more resources to support your healing journey below:
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
https://www.faithbygrace.org/maturing-into-yourself-book
Joey Tomassoni and Ray discuss their journey of relational reconciliation on today’s podcast. Joey is a husband, father, artist, and a pastor. He is currently the pastor of cultivation at Downtown Hope in Annapolis, MD. Join us as we talk about our tumultuous relationship working together in leadership during the early years of the Downtown Hope church plant. We hope our vulnerable conversation and honesty about our immaturity, weaknesses, and relational issues will help and bless you on your journey.
Find more resources and information relating to today's podcast linked below:
https://www.downtownhope.org/
https://www.joeytomassoni.org/
https://lifeintheestuary.org/
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
https://www.faithbygrace.org/maturing-into-yourself-book
Today’s conversation on "Your True Identity" is with Tom Jones. Tom is the Executive Vice President and COO of Global Awakening and the Academic Dean of Global Awakening’s Theological Seminary. Join us as Tom shares his journey through the discouragement of his chronic pain and multiple back surgeries and processing feeling lost in the “whys” of not experiencing healing in a healing community. Listen in to hear his miraculous story and be blessed.
https://globalawakening.com
https://www.faithbygrace.org
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/maturing-into-yourself-book
Ray starts off season three of Your True Identity podcast looking toward the amazing guests we will have on as well as a look back at the miracles he has seen throughout his ministry time. If you are interested in hearing redemption stories of healing, being equipped with practical and sustainable tools for freedom, and being encouraged with spiritual truth about your identity, join us this season.
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
https://www.faithbygrace.org/maturing-into-yourself-book
In today’s conversation, Ray wraps up season two and shares how God answered his prayers for his own message and inspired his ministry focus. Join in and be blessed with the affirmation of your identity in Christ from the original Scriptures Jesus used in a vision to direct Ray to create the Who Do You Think You Are Bible study. Listen in and receive the truth of who you are.
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
https://www.faithbygrace.org/maturing-into-yourself-book
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Darlene Curry. Darlene is a radical lover of God, a wife, a momma, and a creative. This woman is truly an amazing woman and one of the best friends you could ever have. Listen in as she shares her childhood tragic abuse and how God carried her through and brought her to a life of joy and creativity.
Today’s conversation is with Charity Cook. Charity is an Associate Evangelist with Global Awakening, an author, and speaker. Join us as Charity shares her story of reconciling loss and trauma with her theology. Listen in and be blessed by her journey of hope and overcoming while trusting God and believing the good news.
Find out more information and order her new book, A Heart Like Jesus, at:
https://globalawakeningstore.com
More resources for your healing journey can be found here:
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
https://www.faithbygrace.org/who-do-you-think-you-are_bible-study
Today on Your True Identity Ray shares how to get to know your true identity. Join in as he reveals the destructive patterns that keep you from knowing who you are and how to get your needs met, fulfill your purpose, and live out your destiny. You can be free and be you!
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
https://www.faithbygrace.org/maturing-into-yourself-book
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Rande Atcherson. Rande is a spoken word artist, a community advocate, and the director of Speak for a Cause working with non-profits to serve the community. Join in the conversation with us as Rande shares his journey from being hospitalized for severe anxiety to connecting with God in nature and finding peace gardening.
Rande's IG@iSpeakChange
Rande’s Website: www.speakforacause.com
More resources can be found at : https://www.faithbygrace.org
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Mike Van’t Hul. Mike is the Director of Global Awakening’s Network of pastors, missionaries, and itinerates. He and his wife, Deena, run Loaves and Fishes International, focusing on the care of orphans, widows, and the poor in their community and around the world. Join in as he shares their journey of serving orphaned children with severe special needs in China while experiencing trauma and loss and how he kept his peace and faith during those experiences.
In today’s podcast, Ray wraps up the conversation about grace, legalism, and the gospel with a discussion of who, what, and why Holy Spirit convicts. Join in as Ray looks at the debate of whether the Holy Spirit convicts born-again followers of Jesus of sin.
Listen in and decide for yourself.
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
https://www.faithbygrace.org/who-do-you-think-you-are_bible-study
In today’s podcast, Ray continues the conversation about grace, legalism, and the gospel with the question of whether born-again followers of Jesus need to continue to ask God for forgiveness. Join in as Ray looks at the debate of whether it is something that followers of Jesus need to do, and if so, why. Listen in and decide for yourself.
Find more resources for your healing journey at these links below:
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
https://www.faithbygrace.org/who-do-you-think-you-are_bible-study
In today’s podcast, Ray continues the conversation about grace, legalism, and the gospel with the topic of repentance. Join in as Ray breaks out the definition of repentance and looks at the debate of whether it is something that followers of Jesus need to do. Listen in and decide for yourself if repentance is needed.
Find more resources for your healing journey at the links below:
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
https://www.faithbygrace.org/who-do-you-think-you-are_bible-study
In today’s podcast Ray continues the conversation about grace and the gospel with the topic of confession. Join in as Ray breaks out the definition of confession and looks at the debate of whether it is something that followers of Jesus need to do. Listen in and decide for yourself if confession is needed.
Find more resources at the links below:
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-coaching
https://www.faithbygrace.org/who-do-you-think-you-are_bible-study
In today’s podcast, Ray starts a discussion on the subject grace, hyper-grace, and the gospel. This is the first of a multi-week discussion on the key topics regarding the hyper-grace subject. This week Ray sets the foundation of the conversation with the topics of sin, righteousness, and sanctification. In the following weeks Ray will cover confession, repentance, forgiveness, and the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Join in on this on-going conversation and decide for yourself what might be hyper about grace.
Find more resources at the links below:
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
https://www.faithbygrace.org/who-do-you-think-you-are_bible-study
In today’s podcast, Ray discusses the subject of trauma responses. It seems like the latest trend right now is labeling any reactions that we don’t expect, understand, or like from ourselves or someone else as a trauma response. Ray helps us understand the many different possibilities for these behaviors that may or may not be a trauma response. Join in and decide for yourself what might be happening.
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-restoration
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Joseph Harris. Joseph is the Lead Pastor of Love Center Church and has ministered alongside some of today’s well known ministers, such as Heidi Baker, Shawn Bolz, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Billye Brim, Bill Johnson, and Randy Clark. Additionally, Joseph is a Celebrity Chef who has been featured on several TV shows. He competed and won “All-Star Academy” Season 1 on the Food Network and was named “Best Home Cook In America.” Join in as Joseph shares his journey of healing through months of extreme anxiety and depression. Listen in and hear his difficult battle to restore wholeness and healing while still traveling and ministering.
http://www.josephharrisministries.org/
https://www.lovecenter.info/
Ray discusses the issues of how travel can sometimes disrupt our nervous system and cause distress. Join in as he shares his recent experiences with multiple flight delays, cancelations, and divine appointments with other neurodivergent people. Listen in and hear how God sometimes provides what we need in ways that we would never expect.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Bob Hamp. Bob Hamp is the founder of Think Differently Counseling and co-founder of Think Differently Academy with his wife Polly. Besides three decades of private practice, he spent years developing a group discipleship strategy called Freedom Ministry that helped thousands of people find freedom from a broad range of struggles. Join in as he helps us understand the need to accept what is actually happening mentally and emotionally, so we don’t try to deal with a spiritual problem with material answers or a material problem with spiritual answers. Bob beautifully explains how Jesus healed both the body and spirit with spiritual and material answers. Listen in and think differently.
Find more information about Bob's ministry on his website: https://tdcounseling.com/.
To view additional resources for your healing journey check out our website at: www.faithbygrace.org.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Mike Hutchings. Mike has 35 years of pastoral, church planting, and "pastoring pastors" experience in a variety of church cultures. He is a leadership mentor, a pastor’s coach, and an advisor to a number of leadership teams of ministries and churches. Join us as he shares his own journey of healing and how God led him to pray for someone suffering from PTSD that developed his ministry, God Heals PTSD Foundation.
Find out more information about Mike's ministry on his website: https://www.godhealsptsd.com/.
View additional resources available for your inner healing journey at our website: www.faithbygrace.org/resources.
Ray discusses surviving childhood neglect and abuse and how they may affect or cause the patterns of self-sabotage, procrastination, and inability to always do what he intends to do. He explores the acceptance of the patterns in our lives, regardless of why they exist, and how that can help us create new patterns. Whether you struggle with accomplishing the things you intend to do, this will help you.
https://www.faithbygrace.org/resources
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith. Dr. Dalton-Smith is a bestselling and award-winning author of several books including Sacred Rest, Set Free to Live Free, Come Empty, and Colorful Connections. She is a board-certified internal medicine physician, work-life integration researcher, speaker, and host of the I Choose My Best Life Podcast. Listen in as Dr. Saundra shares her journey from striving and burnout to a deep lifestyle of rest. Join in and be refreshed by her revelation of the seven different types of rest and how they can restore and recharge you.
Find more information about Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith's seven types of rest on her website: https://www.drdaltonsmith.com/.
Find more information about Identity Coaching and Faith by Grace Ministries at www.faithbygrace.org.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Molly Pastermack. Molly is a business owner, wife, and mother of two. She was born in Michigan, but has spent time in Annapolis and New Orleans, and currently resides in Florida. Join us as she shares her journey from religious exhaustion and anger to freedom and joy. Listen in as Molly explains her discovery of her emotions, how the Word came alive to her, and her compassion for others.
If you need help discovering freedom, peace, and joy for your own life find more information about tools and resources on our website: www.faithbygrace.org.
Ray discusses the important balance between accepting the reality of the limitations, illnesses, or disorders we have and having faith for healing on today’s episode of Your True Identity. Whether you are dealing with unresolved trauma, tragic loss, or a biological disorder, we are all dealing with something. Ray shares the balance between acceptance and faith, and how denial causes destruction to us, our families, and our relationships.
https://www.faithbygrace.org/resources
Shawandie is a child of God, an Identity coach, and an author who encourages women to pursue wholeness and self-discovery before marriage. Join in as she shares a vision God shared with her that helped her trust Him and begin her process of confession, forgiveness, and healing. Listen in as she shares her process of facing the mistakes she made and regrets she had on her journey to wholeness. Visit her blog at www.worthywithoutaring.com or go to https://shawandiebeale.com for more information about Identity Coaching.
To view more information about Ray's coaching and resources visit www.faithbygrace.org.
Melissa Clark joins us on today’s episode of Your True Identity. Melissa graduated with a Master's degree in Counseling and Biblical Studies from Grace University. She is licensed in the state of Texas as a Licensed Professional Counselor - Supervisor (LPC-S). In addition to counseling, she hosts a weekly podcast show, Thrive: Mental Health and the Art of Living Free. She speaks at conferences, organizations, and businesses about anxiety, identity issues, and body image. She blogs at melissaclarkcounseling.com. Melissa and her husband live in the Dallas area with their son and daughter. Listen in as Melissa shares her journey from striving and insomnia to stewarding her physical health, getting counseling for her emotional health, and getting to know her pleasing and approved identity in Christ.
Today on Your True Identity podcast, Ray discusses tools he has learned to be able to identify, step back from, and observe ongoing painful emotions. Whether you are neurodiverse or neurotypical, we all get overwhelmed with painful emotions sometimes. Listen in and learn how to navigate these emotions and take your life back. Ray shares with you the tools he has learned to steward emotions over many years of battling his own depression, helping thousands of other people find healing, personal encounters with God, studying psychological resources, reading scripture, and going to therapy.
Find out more about these resources at the links below.
Finding A New Normal
Identity Coaching
Stephen De Silva joins us on today’s episode of Your True Identity. Stephen has been a CPA since 1985 serving non-profits, pastors, and itinerant ministries and organizations. After two decades of learning and growing, Stephen has transitioned to create and teach full-time on the subjects of money and the prosperous soul. With a unique blend of experience, humor, and creativity, he offers the Body of Christ a fresh, Holy Spirit-inspired perspective with his biblically based financial insights. Listen in as he shares his journey of believing he was “not good,” into being comfortable in his own skin and having a powerful, humble, righteous mindset.
Find more information and resources check out the links below:
https://stephenkdesilva.com/money-and-the-prosperous-soul
https://stephenkdesilva.com/
www.faithbygrace.org
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with John Matarazzo. John is a TV, podcast, and video producer who was a missionary with YWAM, and now works with Charisma Media. He also hosts his own podcast, Along The Way. Join in as John shares how he recovered from ministry burnout while discerning and following God’s calling in his life.
Find more information about resources at the links below:
http://AlongTheWay.Media
www.faithbygrace.org
In today's episode, Ray discusses how our identity and what we believe affects our prophetic gifting. Listen in as he describes how our faith perspective will direct the nature of our prophetic insight. Join in as Ray shares his prophetic journey and helps you discover how you hear from God.
If you need help with your prophetic gifting or hearing from God, consider an Identity Coaching session: https://www.faithbygrace.org/identity-coaching.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Andy Mason. Andy is the director of Heaven in Business and has written three books including God With You at Work, Dream Culture: Bringing Dreams to Life, and Finding Hope in Crazy Times: Daily Stories of Hearing God. Andy and his wife, Janine, live in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Join in as Andy shares his revelation that God is with him that he experienced in a vision and how discovered his value and his emotions. Listen to how he discovered his codependent patterns and walked out a journey of unraveling the behaviors of pleasing others.
Find more information and resources at: faithbygrace.org
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Will Hart. Will is a husband, father, traveling evangelist, and CEO of Iris Global. Listen in as Will shares the supernatural encounter with God’s love that miraculously healed him and called him into ministry. Join in the conversation and hear Will’s process that led him to travel the world sharing God’s love with Global Awakening and Iris Global.
For more information about resources discussed on today’s podcast check out:
https://www.faithbygrace.org/
https://www.irisglobal.org
Today on Your True Identity podcast, Ray discusses some of the many different root causes for our mental and emotional issues. There is no one-size-fits-all cause or answer for the issue you are struggling with. Listen in as Ray shares some of the tunnel vision perspectives of different healing communities and how we can expand our understanding of the diverse avenues of healing needed.
Check out some of the resources Ray talks about in this podcast at the links below:
https://www.faithbygrace.org/resources
https://equip.identityrestoration.net
Today on Your True Identity, is Hewlette Pearson. Hewlette is an author, educator, pastor, and empowerment speaker. She runs two non-profit organizations: iLove Now, Inc and Hewlette Pearson Ministries. Listen in as Hewlette shares how God woke up the need for her to know herself and live instead of performing. Join us as we discuss her process of healing and growth in accepting herself and her true identity.
Wesley spent years working with doctors for his mental and emotional issues to no avail. Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Wesley Cover; he and his wife, Alaina, are gospel ministers who travel and help others experience Jesus for themselves. Listen and hear how he experienced a miraculous encounter with the Lord and was delivered from the symptoms of his diagnosis.
Today on Your True Identity podcast, Ray introduces Season Two and shares his gratitude for Season One. Join in and hear about the topics for this year and all the new guests we will have sharing their journey, their wisdom, and the tools they use to live free.
Wrapping up a season of freedom, peace, and joy. On today’s episode of Your True Identity Ray reviews this last year of conversations. He also shares what to expect next season. Join in and hear how this podcast got started and how you can pursue your dreams and take the next step in what God has called you to do. Thank you so much for joining us this season. We appreciate you!
Stay connected and find more information about our ministry on our website: https://www.faithbygrace.org/.
Robert felt insane with grief from tragic loss and found help and healing in God. Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Robert Muncy. Robert is an apostolic leader and the senior pastor of The House of Praise for All People in Greenwood, Delaware. Listen in and find hope as he shares his story of losing his daughter and how he struggled through the tremendous grief with God.
Learn how boundaries can accelerate your maturing process. In this episode of Your True Identity podcast, Ray shares the different aspects of emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and physical boundaries. Listen in and be empowered to establish the boundaries you need to live a healthy life and mature into the fullness of your healed identity.
Find out more about Ray's latest book, Maturing into Yourself, on our website.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Laura Burwick. Laura Burwick is a state-certified drug and alcohol counselor, Sozo counselor, ordained pastor, and a recovery coach with Faith by Grace. She has been working with individuals and families for the past 30-plus years helping people identify their barriers so they can heal and have life more abundantly. Listen as she shares her own family struggles that led her to need healing and gave her the inspiration to help others.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Jonathan Barone. Jonathan is a graduate of St. John’s College, a business leader, and a gifted problem solver. Join in and hear his story of how micromanaging and perfectionism gave him his concept of significance and validation, but inevitably led him to extreme anxiety and feeling not good enough. Listen as Jonathan shares his journey of healing from a deep fear of abandonment into being secure in the testimony of God’s provision and love.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Timothy Berry. Timothy has been in ministry almost his whole life. He has been a pastor, evangelist, theologian and itinerate. Tim and his wife, Elizabeth, are currently focused on helping others achieve breakthrough in their physical & emotional health through health coaching. Join in and hear Timothy share his experience of how being bullied as child developed a competitive mindset and entitlement that was healed by Jesus through learning his identity in Christ.
On today’s episode of Your True Identity Podcast Ray talks about the maturing into yourself process. He shares how we all get stuck emotionally in areas of our life, and how we need to mature after a healing experience. Listen in as Ray breaks out the different aspects of the maturing process and how you can grow into the fullness of your healing. Join in and hear how you can be free and enjoy your peace.
Check out our resources for your healing journey on our website at: www.faithbygrace.org
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Tim Bice. Tim has had the opportunity to lead many people from his management roles in business. Being real with himself and his community led to a journey from depression that was sapping his design. He has been able to use his struggles to come alongside others who are struggling in similar ways and together form environments in the business world that promote freedom and healing. Join in as Tim shares his story.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Kristi Graner. Kristi is an ordained minister who holds a master’s degree in Theology and Spiritual Formation and is the cofounder of Dare to Believe Ministries. Join in and hear her journey of breakthrough as a female minister growing in leadership. Listen as Kristi shares her freedom from fear of being seen and being herself as a female leader in the body of Christ.
On today’s episode of Your True Identity Podcast Ray talks about love and acceptance. He shares his own difficulties with those and how the enemy attempts to steal our acceptance and destroy our love. Listen in as Ray breaks out how the enemy tries to get us to believe that we are doing something wrong or being something wrong. You don’t have to be anything else or do anything else to be loved and accepted.
If you need help understanding your identity in Christ, check out our e-course on our website: https://equip.identityrestoration.net/p/home.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Kelly Easter. Kelly is an actor, songwriter, singer, music producer, and laid down lover and worshiper for the Lord. He openly and vulnerably shares about the traumas of childhood molestation (that may be difficult to hear) and how the rejection from his fiancé opened up the ability to connect with and be healed of those traumas. Listen in and hear how he reconnected with God as a loved and accepted son and how it changed his life.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Vic and Monique Woodward. Vic and Mo are the leaders of a ministry called Marriage Mosaic. They exemplify the love of Jesus by modeling, equipping and developing individuals, couples and families for healthy, life-giving relationships. Join us today as they share their early journey of brokenness trying to please people and please God through striving and working hard at what they believed good Christians do. Listen to how this narrative almost destroyed their marriage and how God intervened and brought them to healing, wholeness, and freedom in Christ.
Vic and Monique's website can be viewed here: marriagemosaic.org
Today on Your True Identity, Ray talks about the supernatural power of personal responsibility. He explains how owning the accountability for our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, allows us to have the divine power to change them. Listen in and learn how you can destroy strongholds, arguments, and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and your identity in Christ. If you need help uncovering your identity in Christ, learn more about Ray's Identity Restoration e-course on our website.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Cyndi Barber. Cyndi is an inner healing professional with 23 years of experience who guides people in overcoming trauma, circumstances, and personal limitations to become successful, have meaningful relationships, and become internally whole. Join in the conversation and hear her story of processing through tragic loss and becoming all she can be with the Lord. Talking with Cyndi was an inspiration for me as I listened to how she refused to allow these challenges to derail her. She faced her trauma, did the hard work, and pursued full emotional healing.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Micah Joy Williams. Micah is a mom, a wife, a pastor, a worship leader, a teacher, a writer, and a prophetic theologian. Join in as she shares the process that helped her develop Global Awakening’s inner healing certification course and write her e-book, Christ the Wonderful Counselor. Hear about her journey of learning to know, experience, honor, and process her emotions. Listen in and be equipped, blessed, and empowered to understand and process your emotions with the Lord.
Today on Your True Identity, Ray talks about our basic kingdom needs and how the enemy tries to corrupt them. Ray expands how the freedom, peace, and joy of the kingdom fulfills our need for relationship, security, and purpose. Then he shares how the enemy lies to us in an attempt to steal our purpose, kill our security, and destroy our relationships. Freedom from those lies is available!
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Lindsay Morgan Snyder. Lindsay is an author, teacher, podcaster, and content creator who carries so much joy! Join us as she shares her journey of learning how to receive God’s love and the deep relationship she developed with Him as a result. Listen in and hear how she was made aware of self-hatred and fear in her life and how her healing experience with the Lord drew her into helping other women be free. Lindsay’s book Letting Love In, How God Renews Relationships by Crushing Your Inner Critic has inspired popular on-demand classes. Her most popular classes, Crushing the Inner Critic and Receiving the Father’s Love, encourage participants to connect to the Father-heart of God and address unhealthy behaviors and thoughts about God in powerful, life-altering ways.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Jenna Winston. Jenna is a speaker, writer, and prophetic deliverance pastor who was radically saved from mental illness and extreme drug addiction. Join in and hear her journey through some hard dark times of addiction into redemption and a healing ministry to others. Jenna also shares a vision she experienced with the Lord that led her into the healing of her poverty mindset and the fulfillment of her dreams.
Today on Your True Identity, Ray talks about one of the foundational messages of his ministry. Ray shares his journey of understanding identity and how God helped him believe the truth of our righteous, holy, alive, and pure identity in Christ. Join in and hear how we can easily love God, and love others, when we can believe the truth of our identity and love ourselves.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Jay Baylor. Jay is a farm boy from Central PA, a husband, a father, an army veteran, a Bible teacher, a church planter, and a collaborative leader with Love Baltimore and Burning Heart Ministries. Join in and hear Jay share his journey. He was a busy Young Life leader working too hard for approval, and went through a depression that brought him to a healing encounter with the Lord. This revealed his heart for the prophetic and healing ministry. Listen in and hear about the miracles that are happening today through a ministry of love in Baltimore.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Shannon Grossman. Shannon is a wife and mom to four kids, and a passionate lover of God who is gifted with generosity, prophesy, and compassion. Join us as she shares how a prophetic word deposited a truth of her identity into her life and flipped her world upside down. Listen in and hear about her journey from emotionally disconnected religion into a living relationship with God and a life of freedom, connectedness, and emotional expression.
Today on Your True Identity,Ray talks about what it is like to live with a mood disorder. Ray takes you behind the curtain of what it is like to lead out an inner healing ministry while having bipolar 2 disorder. Join in and hear about the difficulty of being diagnosed to what it is like to live with this issue.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Jack Masteller. Jack is a co-founder and former pastor at Evergreen Los Angeles, and served simultaneously as a Deloitte Strategy consultant, having worked with nearly 20 Fortune 500 clients such as Apple, Nestle, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. In the church field, he serves mostly in a prophetic capacity, helping to pioneer and launch churches and organizations. He is based between Los Angeles and Maui. Join us as he shares his journey from becoming aware of his emotional health issues as a codependent pastor getting his needs met through other people’s affirmation and respect into a new freedom of loving and accepting himself. This is an amazing conversation that I know will bless you.
Today on Your True Identity, Ray talks about the difference between commands (milk) and identity (solid food) in the Scriptures. Join in and learn how to live the truth of your identity and eat the solid food of your righteous identity in Christ.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Liz Corder. Liz is a follower of Jesus, wife, mother, and a beloved daughter of the King of Kings. Join us as she shares her journey from the insecurity, depression, and self-hatred of false humility into a lifestyle of confidence, freedom, and the permission to be herself, and have needs.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Michael Brodeur. Michael is a well-seasoned pastor, church planter, co-founder of Destiny Finder (destinyfinder.com), founder of Pastor’s Coach (pastorscoach.com), and is the director of the Leaders Alliance Network with Catch the Fire ministries. Join in and hear how his traumatic past (that he had stuffed down) stirred up while leading in ministry and how that led to healing encounters. Listen in and hear how Michael balanced out seasons of pursuing healing in different modalities along with seasons of simply living out his freedom.
On today’s episode of Your True Identity, Ray looks at common objections and misconceptions about inner healing and the Scriptural foundation confirming the need for it. Join in and learn about the destructive nature of denying our need for mental and emotional healing, managing our image, and performing for the cultural expectations. Discover how inner healing is a Biblical process of seeking the kingdom of God and receive permission to be free and enjoy your peace.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Teresa Liebscher. Teresa is co-leader of the Bethel Sozo Ministry, the founder of the Shabar Ministry of Bethel Church, and an author of several books. Join us and hear her journey of healing and how that led to the development of the International Sozo and Shabar ministry.
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Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Greg Carr. Greg is a passionate truth seeker, a well-seasoned pastor, and a health coach. He has planted multiple churches, led a Bible school, and has a heart for unity between the liturgical, evangelical, and charismatic church streams. Join us as he shares his journey through depression, shame, and anger into a lifestyle of hope and health.
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On today’s episode of Your True Identity, Ray talks about the word he received for 2022 – this is the year of discipline. Ray breaks out his understanding from Scripture of what discipline means and how it brings life, peace, and freedom. Join in and learn how you can discipline yourself to correct and restrain those unhelpful and unbeneficial things that are stealing your life, killing your peace, and destroying your freedom, so you can mature into yourself.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Kyle Williams. Kyle is an artist, a pastor, and a good friend. Join us and hear Kyle’s journey of pursuing God and how experiencing Godly encounters through life transformed him from being afraid and ashamed to living a life as a joyful artist, a restorer of creativity, and a compassionate entrepreneur.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Nate Johnson. Nate is a husband, father, author, pastor, and community leader. He spent the majority of his young life incarcerated. While serving a 12.5 year prison sentence Nate had an encounter with Jesus, and the process of healing began. Join us and hear about his miraculous transformation from a destructive life on the streets to a fulfilling life of helping others transition from incarceration to belonging.
On today’s episode of Your True Identity, Ray talks about the Three Steps to Life. These steps are the first tool Ray developed to help his clients walk out their freedom after a healing experience. You can be present in your life, have authority over your thoughts and feelings, and live in the presence of God. Join in and learn how to apply these steps to your life and live free.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Elijah Stephens. Elijah is a military veteran, a pastor, a teacher, and a film maker with multiple degrees in philosophy, psychology, apologetics, and religion. Join us as he shares his journey of managing complex PTSD while pursuing his dream to make a movie about verifying miracles. Elijah shares the story of his traumatic upbringing and how he has learned to be successful within the parameters of his window of emotional and mental tolerance. Join in and be blessed. Do yourself an extra favor and check out his film at www.sendproof.com.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Doug Addison. Doug is the founder and president of InLight Connection. Doug is a prophetic speaker, author and coach. He is known for his Daily Prophetic Words, Spirit Connection podcast and blog. He and his wife Linda live in Los Angeles, California where they are impacting the arts, entertainment and media industries. In this episode, Doug shares about overcoming hopelessness and several healing encounters he’s experienced in his life.
On today’s episode of Your True Identity, Ray talks about the steps and challenges in his ministry journey that have led to where he is now and what he is doing for the Lord. Listen as Ray shares the personal challenges and victories that have led him to Identity Coaching and the Identity Restoration movement. He reveals some of the behind the scenes experiences of becoming a missionary, establishing his own ministry, and following the Lord’s call. He also shares about some of his resources and how his latest resource can change your life. Join in and be blessed.
Today’s conversation is with Colleen De Silva, a Dreams Coach for Faith by Grace Ministries. As a Dreams Coach, Colleen offers strategy sessions to help clients learn about themselves, their gifts, and make a plan to walk out their dreams. Colleen discusses overcoming her anxiety, processing the grief of losing her father and brother, and how there are many tools available that can release inner healing and freedom. She shares about a recent healing encounter that came from a family member’s dream.
In today’s episode I talk with close friend Adam Malka. Adam is the co-founder of Signature Tracks, a music production company label. If you watch TV, you have most likely heard one of his tracks playing in the background. Join us as we discuss Adam’s healing journey including a radical encounter with Jesus at age 20, overcoming a dark season of his life including the sudden death of his mother, and realizing his need for scripture, community, accountability, and intimacy in relationships. This conversation deeply affected Ray and it is our hope that you find it meaningful and helpful in your life as well.
On today’s episode of Your True Identity, Ray will be talking about the condition of our hearts. He will explore what the Word says about our hearts before we were born again, what Jesus did for us that changed everything, and what the condition of our hearts are now. Ray will break out the gospel message that is expressed even in Old Testament Scriptures to help you better understand what God did with our old body of sin, and the work Jesus completed for us. This is good news! Join in and let your heart be free.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Steve Backlund. Steve is an encourager, leader developer, joy activist, and a revivalist teacher. He is the associate director of the Bethel Leaders Network, and together with his wife, is the founder of Igniting Hope Ministries. He has authored numerous books including Declarations, Igniting Faith in 40 Days, and The Culture of Empowerment. Join in with Ray as we hear about Steve’s desert experience of lack of hope and joy that brought him to repentance and launched his ministry. Listen as Steve shares his transformation from performing for love and approval that led him on a journey of seeking for inner victory and how his passion and hunger for more drew him into an encounter with a rhema word from the Lord. Be blessed and may you experience your rhema word (see Matthew 4:4) from the Lord for your life and have success in your state of being with God.
On today's podcast I interview Jeremy Butrous, consultant and author of many books, including Learning How To Love: Biblical Skills to Improve Your Relationships and The Ways of Prosperity: God’s Provision for Every Area of Your Life. We discuss a few of his transformative encounters and the direct change that came from them. You'll hear how Jeremy realized that ownership and openness are keys to relational happiness.
On today’s episode of Your True Identity, Ray will be taking about his greatest healing encounter. He shares the dramatic vision he experienced when he encountered Jesus for the first time. While sharing about this healing Ray begins to define some of the terms he will be using. Join in and hear about how this vision changed everything in his life. In this episode Ray also defines some commonly used words on the podcast so you can understand what he means by these terms. While sharing his experience, he will explain what he means by healing encounters, visions, revelation, and manifestations.
A conversation about processing depression and how God transitioned obligation into love and a restoration of creativity.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Shawn Bolz. Shawn is a TV host, an author, producer, and a Christian minister. He has been leading conversations in the church, entertainment industry, and in social justice that have helped believers connect their faith to culture in a transformative way. Join us as Shawn shares how he had to face his codependency with his church identity. He shares how he dealt with low level depression just as his ministry was blowing up and increasing. Listen as Shawn discusses how he grew from obligation as a pastor into love and creativity during difficult challenges. Discover how you can believe in yourself during tough times and walk with God through it all.
Visit www.faithbygrace.org for more resources to equip you for a lifestyle of freedom, peace, and joy.
A conversation about how Heather went from being stuck in a legalistic culture and mindset, living in a toxic relationship that led to abandonment, into a lifestyle of an unfolding revelation of God which allows her to bring compassion and real help to others.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Heather Wright, a trusted friend and Identity Coach on our team. Heather has been pursuing Jesus for over 30 years and has a heart to allow the challenges, failures, and victories of her life to become stepping stones and solutions for others. Join us to hear Heather's story of being raised in a legalistic religious culture, how she had no grid for relationships, and believed she was too bad to be a Christian. You'll hear how this mindset led her into a toxic, destructive relationship that left her abandoned with two small children, and how she fell apart and prayed a simple prayer for “help” that changed everything. Learn how the answer to her prayer guided her into a lifestyle of an unfolding revelation of God, giving her permission to just be, to rest, and let Him bring revelation. It is now her great delight to see people discover Christ in them - the hope of glory - and come into the fullest, freest expression of that.
Visit www.faithbygrace.org for more resources to equip you for a lifestyle of freedom, peace, and joy.
A conversation about feeling stuck in frustration, jealousy, and competition and how God transitioned that into a worldwide healing ministry.
Today’s conversation on Your True Identity is with Dawna De Silva, the founder and co-leader of the Bethel Sozo Ministry. Dawna has been ministering with passion and purpose for the past twenty years in her pursuit of equipping and empowering the church to walk in freedom and wholeness of body, soul, and spirit. Listen as Dawna shares her previous struggle with competition, jealousy over other people’s success, her frustration with not getting freedom for so long, and how she felt stuck as she was trying to do all the right things to get healed. She shares an experience of the touch of God that released her and transformed her thinking. You'll hear how the Lord let her know, in her inner being, that she would bring freedom to people, and how that experience led to the SOZO ministry. Dawna has been a crucial part of my own journey of healing, and has been such an encouragement to my own calling. Dawna is married to Stephen K. De Silva, founder of Prosperous Soul Ministries, and has two adult sons, Cory and Tim.
Visit www.faithbygrace.org for more resources to equip you for a lifestyle of freedom, peace, and joy.
Brendan shares how a traumatic heartbreak led to an embrace from Father God and an authentic conversation with Jesus that altered the course of his life and was a catalyst in Ray’s ministry.
Today's conversation on Your True Identity is with my good friend, and one of the funniest people I know, Brendan Sullivan. Brendan is a husband, father, and an entrepreneurial powerhouse. His pursuit of Jesus has taken him down many different roads, and his inner healing journey has been beautiful to witness. Join us as we hear Brendan's journey of healing and how he was a catalyst that helped launch our own inner healing ministry many years ago. Brendan shares how encountering an embrace from God the Father, and having an authentic conversation with Jesus, changed him and altered the course of his life. Listen to how the radical, scandalous gospel message of the Lord accepting you right where you are gave Brendan permission to be authentic and to get to know his true self.
Visit www.faithbygrace.org for more resources to equip you for a lifestyle of freedom, peace, and joy.
Ray gets personal by sharing his story of how trauma, abuse, a suicide attempt, and self-protections triggered a deep depression and need for healing that led to an encounter with Jesus which transformed the entire direction of his life.
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!
Welcome to the first episode of Your True Identity Podcast. I’m Ray Leight, and in this episode, I will let you know a little bit about me, my struggles, and how an encounter with Jesus changed my life. Join me as I explore how God has worked in my life to help me get to know my own calling and identity, and how that led me to help others. If I can be healed, anybody can be healed. You have everything you need to fulfill your destiny. You are worth it. You are the joy that was set before Jesus and the reason He endured the cross.
Visit www.faithbygrace.org for more resources to equip you for a lifestyle of freedom, peace, and joy.