Hi, this is Dave Olson. I'm the senior leader of
Heartland Church located in Ankeny, IA.
I hope the following message challenges, encourages and
ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us.
Well, my name is Mike Hutchings. I'm just a boy from Illinois,
spent 58 years of my life in Illinois.
I pastored for 35 years. Then I was asked by my friend
Randy Clark, whom he and I were fellow Baptist pastors together
in southern Illinois back in the early 80s.
He asked me if I would come and direct the education programs
for Global Awakening. And so for the past 13 years
I've been in Mechanicsburg, PA, just just assisting my dear
friend in the amazing ministry that God has given him in
touching the world and awakening the world to the power of the
Holy Spirit. About 13 years ago, at at the
same time, I was asked by Randy, somebody asked me actually
between the services, why do you think God chose you to do this
ministry of bringing healing to trauma?
And I said, well, honestly, it came as an assignment.
My my boss told me to pray for a guy with PTSD and I was
available. And even though I didn't know
what to do, I went ahead and did it anyway.
Everybody smile, right? Because how many, you know, God
never calls the qualified. He always qualifies the called.
And so I just asked the Holy Spirit for help.
He showed me how to do that. I prayed for this man.
He got completely healed and set free from all of the PTSD
symptoms that he was carrying, including suicidal thoughts,
chronic nerve pain. He couldn't sleep more than two
hours at night. And God completely set him free.
And it began a journey for me of learning God's heart to bring
healing to trauma. And so over this past now 13
years, I've had the privilege of traveling to 37 states, to 11
different countries and training the church.
First of all, to to train the church how to bring healing to
trauma through the power of prayer in the name of Jesus.
But also to declare a prophetic mandate to the church that
whenever we've had people who had trauma or people, people who
had mental health issues, we would have a tendency, at least
I did as a pastor, to kind of push them off into the
psychological community. And how many of you know that
we, I bless counselors and psychiatrists and psychologists
and therapists, but they only know how to help people cope
with their trauma. They know how to give medicine
and give exercises, but they don't know how to heal.
And I, my prophetic mandate to the church is simply to say
there's only one organization on the planet earth that has the
power and the goods and the means to break the power of
trauma off of people's lives and set them free.
And that's the Church of Jesus Christ.
And it's time for us as the church to take back trauma, to
take back mental health issues and declare healing and, and not
just help these people cope, but actually get them set free by
the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
You know, we, we're even seeing this now in the mental health
area where we're beginning to see bipolar disorder and
schizoaffective disorders healed.
We had a woman come to our broken conference who got a word
of knowledge about being healed of schizoaffective disorder and
she had been hearing voices and she had been having
hallucinations and delusions from the time that she was a
teenager. So she had been on heavy duty
psychotic antipsychotic medications to help her cope.
And she's obviously brilliant because she became a lawyer and
worked in the in the public sector.
But when she came to that unbroken conference, she
received that testimony of her being of schizoaffective
disorder being healed and she felt a rush of the power of God
run through her body and she began to feel very different.
She wasn't hearing any voices anymore.
She went to her psychiatrist and begin to talk with her
psychiatrist and asked her psychiatrist because she was
having negative side effects from the medicine that she'd
been on for years. And so she be he began to wean
her off of her medication from the 1st of November to the
beginning of January of the next year.
And in January of 2025, she went completely off all of her
medication. No more voices, no more suicidal
ideations, no more hallucinations or delusions, got
completely set free. She came to the Unbroken
Conference in New Mexico in August and gave her testimony of
being completely healed of schizoaffective disorders.
And since then, since I've shared that testimony in a
number of other meetings, we've seen people heal of
schizoaffective disorders, of bipolar one and two disorders,
and many mental health issues. Because how many of you know God
heals the spirit, He heals our bodies, but He also wants to
heal our minds and our souls from those things.
And it's available by the power of the blood of Jesus.
Could I have an Amen in the room?
Anybody. So for those of you that are not
familiar, I now travel full time under the God Feels PTSD
foundation that enables me to go to places.
I've been to Ukraine three times, I've been to Rwanda
twice, I've been to Australia, been to New Zealand, been to
South Africa, been to Brazil, been to Europe.
Actually, I didn't share this before, but I I've had the
privilege now of working with both YWAM, which is Youth with a
Mission, as well as Iris Global in helping them develop
curriculum for their burned out and traumatized missionaries.
We're actually developing curriculum so that when
missionaries come off the field because they're just so
traumatized that we're actually seeing them get healed and
restored and be able to go back on the field again by the power
of God. And so we're working with both
of those organizations to make that happen.
But to follow what I do, I've got a television show called
Living Unbroken on Sid Ross. It's Supernatural Network, and
it's up there. It's got the YouTube link for
that. It's also on the Rumble app that
you can look for the channel Living and Broken.
And then you'll see here there's a Facebook page.
There is the website aswellgodhealsptsd.com.
And I have a book called Supernatural Freedom from the
Captivity of Trauma. And now we are finally sold out
of all my books. But if you would like to
purchase that book, you can get it on my website there.
So pray with me real quick. We're going to pray and then
we're going to just right dive into this.
Holy Spirit. I thank you for the presence of
healing angels in this room right now.
I thank you God, for the healing anointing that flows in this
church. And I ask you just over these
next 20 or so minutes that let the fire of God come and bring
healing and restoration and bring hope to those who have
been hopeless in their trauma, who've been hopeless and
struggling with suicidal thoughts, who've been hopeless
in the pain that they've been caring God.
May they hear the message of hope that comes from Jesus that
says he's come to literally to declare liberty to captives and
freedom to the prisoners in the name of Jesus, we pray and all
God's people said so. Next slide, guys, if you would.
How many of you know the gods in the restoration business?
Yeah, he is. We've already heard testimonies
of restoration. You know, in Psalm 23, David is
talking about his. You know, David began life
serving his family as a shepherd boy.
And so he spent lots of hours out on the fields outside of
Bethlehem taking care of his family's flock of sheep.
And in that time he developed a relationship with Father God.
That was such a beautiful relationship that's actually
mirrored in many of the Psalms that David wrote.
The reason, the reason why David's testimony in the New
Testament about his life is that he was a man after God's own
heart was because David shared everything of his life with
Father God. And he likened in Psalm 23 the
relationship that he had with his father to the relationship
that he is a shepherd had with his sheep.
How many of you know that many times throughout the Bible, Old
and New Testament, God calls us his sheep, right?
You know that, right? Psalm 23, Ezekiel 3634 through
37, and in John chapter 10, we're called the sheep of his
pasture. Now that's a beautiful thing.
It's not exactly the greatest compliment in the world.
How many of you know that sheep were not exactly the smartest
animals in the animal Kingdom? There are no sheep acts in the
circus. They're notor.
Yep, they're notoriously difficult to train.
I had an interview with the shepherd in New Zealand who told
me that he has to keep his eye constantly on his sheep because
they wander off very easily. They take constant care and
literally the shepherd lives with the sheep.
The in in. In past days and David's day,
the the shepherd would literally lay down at the front of the
stall where the gate where the shepherd was at the gate to
guard the sheep from the wolf. And this shepherd told me in New
Zealand that if he puts his sheep out on a pasture that's
next to a Cliff, the sheep will literally eat themselves off the
Cliff. They'll just keep eating and
just fall over. So instead of being insulted by
being called a sheep by God, I want you to understand that
actually this picture in Psalm 23 is of the watch, care, and
the love that the Father has over every one of us.
That He loves us with an everlasting love, that His eye
is always on us, looking out after us all the time.
You may feel like you may be alone.
You may be put into circumstances where you feel
very alone in this world. But I tell you, fear and not
your father is watching out after you turn to somebody and
say his eye is on you because he loves you.
So in this Psalm, David makes this declaration.
He says the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul.
Now I want to stop there because that's that versus the theme of
what I want to bring to you today.
The word restore here in many paraphrases is many times I love
reading paraphrases of scripture, but many times it
kind of take the guts out of the original language.
And in many paraphrases they will use the word he refreshes
my soul. Like, you know, a day at the
spa, you know, I'm going to go and I'm going to get my Manny
and my petty and get a face facial and sit in the sauna and
get a massage and kind of have a refreshing day.
And by the way, those are awesome.
I don't know if you've ever had one.
Most guys don't do that, but I've done that once and it was a
lot of fun. It was really good.
I got refreshed that day. But the word here, restore is
actually not the word refresh. Like it's a day at the spa, but
it has a much deeper meeting. As a matter of fact.
Go to the next slide if you would, guys.
The word here in the Hebrew is the word Aruka.
And the word Aruka means to be restored to health, to restored
to soundness. And it's the same word that
Nehemiah, when he goes to Jerusalem and sees the
devastation of Jerusalem and the walls that are torn down, that
the very first plan he makes, he says, I'm going to restore the
walls of Jerusalem. And that same word that he uses
there is the word that David uses in Psalm 23 that is to be
restored from devastation. David needed to have his soul
restored from devastation, not only because of the fact that he
was a warrior and he had he had been in many wars and had been
through bloodshed, but David knew what it was like to be
persecuted by a king that he dearly loved and served.
And literally for 13 years he was persecuted.
And on the run from this king, he raised up mighty men of God
around him that that depended upon him.
And yet one day as they were out doing battle, the Amalekites
came into the town called Ziklag, where they were
stationed and, and attacked the town and burned down the town
took all the women and children and all of the the equipment and
everything that they had and took it.
And when David and his mighty men came back to the town
expecting to have rest and get some, get some food, instead
they found devastating. And it was at that moment that
these mighty men that David had literally laid his life down
for, they all began to blame David for what took place.
And like what most spiritual leaders go through at one time
or another, they're the people that he laid his life down for,
sought to take up stones and literally kill him, literally
stone him. And my friends, if you're in
spiritual leadership, whether you're a pastor, you lead a
ministry. Just like Jesus had a Judas,
everybody knows Jesus had a Judas.
You'll have that wonderful experience as well at some time
in your life. It's it's actually not
wonderful. It's horrible because when the
very people that you lay your life down for turn against you
and try to steal what God has given you or actually destroy
you, it's an it's an awful experience.
David knew that David knew what it was like to really be
traumatized in so many ways that I believe that David was one of
the most traumatized men in the entire Bible.
But when he declares here that God restores his soul, what he
is talking about here is it the shattering of the soul that
happens when you go through traumatic events and it shatters
you in a way that you become to be defined more by your trauma
rather than by the identity that God has given you as a beloved
child. That's the kind of restoration
that David needed. You will read in the Psalms many
times that David refers to himself as a worm.
David refers to himself with some pretty awful phrases, and
that's because in the midst of his trauma, he began to believe
what the trauma was saying about him rather than what God was
saying about him. And my dear friends, that's most
of our problems. How many of you know that
everybody has trauma? Pastor Dave agrees with me.
Would you turn to somebody and say, everybody has trauma,
Everybody has trauma. The question is not whether
you've had trauma. The question is, does it still
define you today? Does it still impact you?
Does it still define who you think you are?
You see, one of the things that has shocked me over these years,
for instance, as I've had the privilege of going to so many
places and training people in how to bring healing to trauma,
is I am shocked by how many spirit filled, loving Jesus
believers still carry a lot of trauma in their life.
They're plagued by, they can't sleep at night.
They're plagued with panic and anxiety.
So many are plagued with suicidal thoughts that they
struggle with. And of course, in the church,
you can't go to somebody and say, hey, I've got a lot of
suicidal thoughts because you're afraid you're going to be
shamed. Like, what do you mean?
You're a believer? You shouldn't believe that, you
know, or, or guilt because you have those suicidal thoughts.
Let me tell you something, folks.
Everybody look at me when I say this.
I've had the privilege of praying with mighty men and
women of God who are being used powerfully by God to bring
transformation in the earth. And yet they still struggle
sometimes with trauma. They still sometimes struggle
with thoughts of suicide. They still struggle sometimes
with depression and anxiety. That's because their souls
haven't been fully healed yet. So my friend, understand
something. If those are some of the things
that you struggle with, you're actually in good company.
Don't be ashamed of it. Don't be guilty of it.
Because when we feel shame and guilt over that, we have a
tendency to want to hide it. We want to push it down as if
it's not there. And yet in our weak moments, we
still struggle with him. And I want to say to you today
that we want to speak the truth about that.
How many of you understand that you've never had a suicidal
thought that was actually your own?
That there is a demon of suicide that will speak in your own
voice and because you're in so much emotional pain, will try to
convince you just to end your life?
Or when you look at your everybody look at me.
When you look at yourself in the mirror, you hate the person on
the other side of the mirror. You can't stand that person and
you develop self hatred. All of that are lies from the
enemy that's out to steal, kill and destroy the dream of God for
your life. And then he brings the suicidal
thoughts and then he brings the shame and guilt attached to it.
That's just like the enemy. He tries to trap you into this
thing to such an extent that you begin to feel hopeless about
your life and actually begin to think about, well, maybe the
best thing for me to do is just to end my life.
I want to say to you today, if that's you, don't leave here
without getting ministry from the ministry team because the
Lord wants to set you free from that.
And by the way, everybody, when we get an attack from the enemy,
like the suicidal thought, we have a great phrase that we use
on a regular basis because we understand that those thoughts
don't come from us, but they come from the powers of
darkness. We say, and Pastor Hoel has this
shirt. We say, not today, Satan, I'm
not going to listen to that stuff anymore.
Why don't we say that together? Not today Satan, I'm not going
to listen to that stuff anymore. And it's amazing.
The Bible says if you submit yourself to God and resist the
devil, he will flee from you. That means he'll quit doing it
to you. And that's what we all want.
Amen. Next slide, please.
You know, your soul that gets shattered by trauma consists of
four components that are affected by that trauma there.
First of all, it's your mind what and how you think.
It includes your memories. It includes what you think about
yourself. It it includes your beliefs and
your values. And many of us who have been
traumatized, actually, our beliefs about God, our beliefs
about ourselves, and our beliefs about what's available to us
have been affected by that trauma.
I think Laura said it so beautifully here when she talked
about the lie that she was believing that she would just
have to carry this part of her trauma because that's just the
way life is. See if you've come to a place
where the the trauma of your life, the way that you've been
treated and the pain that you carry you, you have come to the
place that you say, well, this is just what life is.
You don't understand that God has a word that he wants to
declare over you and he wants to you to experience.
And that's the word Shalom. Shalom just doesn't mean peace,
but it literally means wholeness.
It literally means life as it's supposed to be, that no matter
what has happened to you and even no matter what choices you
have made, there is healing, there is freedom, and you don't
have to settle for life with trauma and pain in the rest of
your days. You can walk in the true freedom
that Jesus declared in John chapter 10 verse 10 when he said
the thief comes to steal, to kill and to destroy.
But I have come that you might have life and have an abundance.
How many of you want that life? Anybody.
That's what I want. I want everything that Jesus
bought and paid for. Well, not only is trauma
affecting your mind, but it affects the power to make
choices. So many of us have have bought
the lie that in order to get out of our pain we have to take
drugs or alcohol or get involved in pornography or get involved
with other things that all have a hook with them.
And that hook is the hook of addiction where when we try to
get away from our pain, those things that we use to try to be
substitute saviors, to try to comfort us, actually create more
damage and more destruction and actually more trauma in our
lives. Because it's those very things
that actually hook us into an addiction that then we become
defined not just by our trauma anymore, but now we're defined
by our addiction. And let me say this to you,
anybody in this room, anybody that's watching online that has
an issue with addiction, I want to say to you, addiction is not
your identity. Addiction is something that
you're suffering with. Addiction is something that you
went to and then got hooked because of the trauma in your
life. But I'm saying to you, go after
your trauma first. Go after the pain that's in your
heart. Allow Jesus to come and bring
healing to your trauma. And I'm telling you, we've seen
it countless times where people get healed of their trauma and
all of a sudden they no longer have an appetite for alcohol.
All of a sudden they try to take that, go smoke a joint again,
and all of a sudden smoking the joint makes them sick.
They can't stand it anymore. I had one guy who he was, he was
a biker and he was a Vietnam, he was a Iraqi war vet and he got,
he got saved, healed and delivered in the same prayer.
And when he walked out to get on his Harley, had this great big
Knucklehead bike. I think they call them
Knuckleheads. But anyway, he had this big, big
bike and he got on his bike and he went to put a piece of cha
tobacco cha in his mouth. And as he got started to bike,
he had to stop the bike and get off the bike because it made him
so sick he was throwing up. And from that day that he got
healed of his PTSD, he didn't drink, he didn't do drugs, he
didn't smoke. He didn't even take a jaw
anymore because he didn't need it anymore because God had
healed him. So the power to make choices is
affected by trauma as well. Number three, let me say this,
Your emotions are affected by trauma.
And so whether you have difficulty with negative
emotions or or just kind of manic emotions, God wants to
heal that. Or if you feel numb on the
inside, God wants to restore your soul to such an extent that
he wants to help you experience again what it means to actually
feel and feel normal again. The last thing that trauma
effects is your identity, who you are in Jesus.
And this is so significant because you see, you need to
understand something. Jesus went through all the
trauma of the day of crucifixion to to show us not only what God
is willing to do to bring you to fellowship with him, but
actually what he provides to bring healing to us.
Next slide, please. There it is.
See Jesus suffered trauma on your behalf so that your trauma
could be healed. His body experienced the 39
whippings where the flesh was literally torn off of his body
and he was humiliated before he went to the cross.
When the the word in Isaiah 53 five says by his wounds we are
healed. The word there in the Hebrew is
literally means by His scourging.
By His scourging there was a redemptive power that was
released into the earth. And so we can know that no
matter how bad your trauma has been, nobody else may understand
your trauma. But I know one that does and His
name is Jesus and if you will come to him and believe him for
the power to be freed from your trauma, he will heal you and
restore you in Jesus name. In my closing moments here, I
want to show you just a really quick video, a testimony video
of a man just like you and me who had a very traumatic
situation with his son when his son was one year of age.
And even though God healed his son and his son was doing well,
he carried PTSD for five years from that incident.
So could we show video #8 please?
This is at Andrew Womack's place. close it off.
I think he got it, don't you? I, I told yesterday, he, during
the five years he had PTSD, he got, he got kind of crazy with
it a little bit. And he would, he lived in a
cul-de-sac in Colorado Springs and he would go around and talk
to his neighbors about his PTSD all the time.
And he realized that he had kind of, you know, caused a problem
in the neighborhood. So after he got healed of PTSD
and he was completely free, he went to every neighbor and
apologized to them for driving them crazy for the last five
years. And it actually started a
conversation with his neighbors that ended up they had a book
study. He led a book study on my book
in his home. And many of his neighbors got
healed of their trauma and PTSD. Isn't that cool?
I mean, that's what it's all about, right?
It really is. So go back to the PowerPoint if
you would, guys. Next slide in Japanese art
culture, there's this amazing process called Kinsugi or
kinsukuroi. And when a piece of pottery
that's a a, a dream that design of a creator is broken, they
don't just throw it away and try to make a new one.
They actually take the pieces and they put the pieces back
together with gold or silver lacquer so that the original
dream and design of the creator is fully restored.
But now that piece of art is more beautiful and more valuable
for having been broken in the 1st place.
It's a glorious, just concept of God's desire for you and I that
God has always had a dream and desire for us to live our lives
the way that he created us to be.
And so much of the evil and the pain and the disaster and the
devastation of our lives was never part of God's design for
us. But God wants us to know that no
matter how much we've been through, no matter how old we
are, that the dream of God is still available for, for us
today, if we'll just simply ask him for it.
Go to the next slide, the last one.
This is what he wants to do for your soul.
He wants to restore your soul like David's, to bring
restoration to the dream of God for your life.
He wants to show you the dreams that He still has for you if
you'll just quit allowing the devil to define you by your
trauma and instead be defined by who your Father calls you.
So in this last couple of minutes, would you just take
your hand, your right hand, and put it on your chest?
Here, keep your eyes open because I like to pray with
people who keep their eyes open. Holy Spirit, I just ask you to
come in power right now. Come in power right now.
Come with the power of your love, Your grace, and Your
mercy. Holy Spirit, that you would show
to each one of us the wounds and the shattering of our souls from
the traumatic things that you never intended for us.
In the name of Jesus, I speak healing and restoration.
Every soul here. I break the power and I cancel
and sever the assignments of the powers of darkness, of trauma,
of torment and a fear. I specifically address the
spirits of suicide and of addiction and of panic and
anxiety and of self hatred in this room right now.
In Jesus name. I declare in the name of Jesus.
Not today Satan. We're not going to listen to
that stuff any longer. In Jesus name I pray right now
for the Shalom of God to come upon every soul, that they would
not only receive peace, but there would come restoration and
there would come wholeness of soul, the mind.
Matter of fact, pray this with me, Holy Spirit, heal my wounded
soul, heal my mind, heal my will, heal my emotions and
restore my identity back to your original dream for me.
I renounce and I reject trauma as the story of my life, and I
choose to no longer be defined by my history, what I have done,
what's been done to me by my family, or what I've witnessed.
I choose to be defined by who you call me, that I am your
beloved child in whom you're well pleased right now.
Now real quick, put your hand up here and then I'm just going to
pray this over you as we close. In the name of Jesus, I pray
right now for every traumatic image and memory that you still
carry that still causes nightmares, night flash
flashbacks, and night terrors. I command every traumatic image
and memory to dry up right now that your memory center wake up
to begin to remember the good things about your life, that
your short term memory skills be returned to you and every
traumatic image and memory be gone.
Right now in Jesus name. I command your sleep center to
be reset back to the natural circadian rhythms that you were
born with and beginning tonight, that the Lord would give you 6
to 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep in Jesus name.
And I pray right now, Holy Spirit, that you would come and
occupy every place in these people's lives that has been
occupied by trauma. Fill them, Lord, with your love,
your joy, your peace, and your power.
In Jesus name. I pray and all God's people
said, would you give thanks to God?
Everybody, Pastor Dave, would you come?
Thanks for listening to our podcast.
If you'd like to help more people hear this message, you
can get the word out by subscribing and sharing it on
social media. If you'd like to support the
ministries of Heartland Church, you can do so at Heartland
Church online.com/give.