Jesus is the Key - Unlocking Healing After Betrayal

Jesus Is the Key — Unlocking Healing After Betrayal

When betrayal shatters trust and leaves you questioning everything, where do you turn? In this deeply encouraging episode of A New Level Awaits You, we uncover a powerful truth: Jesus is not just part of the healing—He is the key to it.

Joined by special guest Nadine Brown, this conversation dives into the reality of betrayal and the wounds it leaves behind—broken trust, guarded hearts, and lingering pain. Together, we explore how true healing doesn’t come from striving harder or suppressing the hurt, but from encountering the One who restores, redeems, and makes all things new.

Drawing from the heart of the Thriving & Wholeness Series and themes found in Freedom After Betrayal, this episode will help you:

•  Recognize where betrayal has tried to close off your heart 
•  Understand how Jesus meets you in the deepest places of pain 
•  Reopen areas of your life you may have locked away for protection 
•  Step into freedom, restoration, and renewed purpose 

This is more than a conversation—it’s an invitation to unlock the places within you that betrayal tried to seal shut. Jesus holds the key, and He is ready to lead you into healing, wholeness, and a future not defined by your past.

✨ Because when Jesus is the key, no door remains permanently closed.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:05

Hi, I am Lois Wellington. We all desire spiritual growth, but do not always know where to begin. On a new level awaiting, we provide steps to guide you into your divine assignment and reach new levels of greatness in the Lord. You begin to sore above every obstacle and enter into your specific assignment. So get ready to go from glory to glory as new levels await you. We welcome you to A New Level Awaits You. Once again, we're going to be talking about freedom after betrayal. This is another episode. And today, this topic is going to be on Jesus is the key. But there's something exciting and different about this particular episode is that we're going to be talking about some visions, some things that the Lord has revealed to us through these visions and how God heals within that. And sometimes God gives us these amazing things, revelation and visions and dreams and so forth. And we want to share some of that with you. And today, once again, I have Nadine Brown with me. Nadine, welcome to A New Level Awaits You. Thank you. Yes, we're excited because we believe that God gives us a message. And as we talk about the fact that Jesus is the key, even in the midst of brokenness, even in the midst of betrayal and deep betrayal, because this is one of the visions that I shared about in my book. And then we're going to give you another vision that uh was received last night and how these two visions apply and how we can take what God has given us through visions and put them in, apply them to our lives so that we can move forward in a great, great way. So I'm going to have um Nadine share the very first vision with you.

SPEAKER_00 2:13

Yeah. Well, I had been pursuing my healing from betrayal, I guess just healing my heart in general and trying to open it back up to the things of God after some, you know, traumas. And um the Lord, as I was praying one day, the Lord gave me this vision. I was in a hallway, somewhat to a school hallway, and I was looking at a door that had, I don't know how the classrooms are now, but the in the old, you know, in the old days, they had little small narrow windows that you could see into. And I was at this door with the narrow window of a classroom, and on the outside of it were all these bumper stickers or stickers and tags. And those tags were words that were put on me that I believed. I believe they were put on there in formative times, maybe formative um parts of my life, say when I was younger, whatever, I was this, and when whatever, I was that. And the stickers were like black and white. They were also put on there by people, and that people that were um entrusted to um be over you, I would say, or help you, maybe a parent, maybe a church leader, um, Sunday school person, anybody that you esteemed as someone that you could trust and that valued and was there to be teachers, yeah. Teachers and people that are supposed to invest in your life, and that you they hold a great importance in your identity. And they do, I mean, they do when you do that relationship. So this door had all these tags on it and bumper stickers, but they were all lies. You know, I I might have been one might have been stubborn, um, you know, mean, whatever they were, that whatever these things were. And they were, it might have been inadvertent words that were spoken and they went in and caused this wounding, and it went into the heart because of trust. So I saw these stickers, and as I they didn't line up with what God says you are and what God says I am, and that you know, I'm his daughter, I'm his beloved. I'm I'm a lot of things in the word that are precious and cherished by God, and um they didn't line up. So as I began to see in the classroom, which to me sort of represented a place of influence in my life or whatever what I was being taught or absorbing in there, whatever lesson. Um, these I began to um tear off. Well, first I began to get into the word. And what did the word say? One of my prayers was I believe it's in Isaiah 51, make me to know truth in my inward parts, that the bones that you have broken will rejoice. And that's been a scripture of mine for several years, and the bones being the old structures that you believed. Uh so if you have truth on your inward parts and those old bones are broken, you can have new life, you can have new freedom. So I take that scripture and I start reading that, and then I start saying, Lord, how how do you see me praying? What does God say about me? What am I? I am a creative person, I'm a passionate person. I like life, I'm a seer, you know, I have different different things, and creativity is big, um, seeing is big, and and I see all these good um traits and identity and identifiers of my personality and and even in my spirit person, and they don't line up with what's on the door. So, what do I do? I have that choice. So I stay frightened and looking in and in that let that fear grip, let the words that somebody else spoke, let the bumper sticker that they gave me stay on the door because they had to know better. They were the ones, they were, you know. So since you turn your life to the Lord, you you take him on as your partner, is your father, is and he loves on you and you trust him, you start taking off the bumper stickers of other people's um expectations and view of you. So I started ripping those off and started speaking whatever truths were contrary to what the the bumper sticker said. And as I did that, he started showing me that there was a a golden key. Yeah, and it was where it unlocked the door, makes me want to cry, really, because he he put that key in the hand because it that classroom of things that I had been taught and absorbed were not true. And if I took that key and applied that to the door, the door turned to a gate, and the gate opens up to future, to truth and to um life. And so these places that I had absorbed by other people's expectations and so forth, they caused a lot of fear. I couldn't live up to expectations because I didn't know what they were. And when you start reading the word of God and finding your identity and accepting your diet identity as good, then the key is welcome. The gate is open, it's a golden gate, it's a future, it's a destiny, it's a lot of things. It's not a locked classroom that you have to work yourself into.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

I want to, you know, go back a little bit to the place where you said, um, you know, you you get stuck. We get stuck in the fear kind of grips you. You know, do we do we continue on believing those stickers, those lies, or do we accept what Jesus is really saying that, you know, walk through those doors? And I and I truly I've been through this myself, so that you get to that door, you get this golden key, but sometimes you can even get stuck right there in that place because we have a uh, I believe, a choice right there. Do I do I remain in that familiarity of all those words, all that has been spoken, spoken over us, or do I dare to trust that this golden key is going to take me into a better place? Now we know mentally, yes, now we have the knowledge that it will, but right there, there is I find for me, and I'm wondering with you, Nadine, if that happened with you. But it's like, oh my goodness, God's saying this. I'm stuck though. Do I dare to believe for all that he has for me in that? Can you kind of expound on that a little bit?

SPEAKER_00 9:36

Well, what came to mind as you were speaking is that we're dimensional, we're body, soul, and spirit. And these bumper stickers were flat, they had nothing but to stand in your face.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

Interesting. Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

They were lies, you know, they were man-made, they were black and white, and they weren't looking at you as a dimensional person, as uh, you know, like God does. If God does, he's always working on all your areas and bringing those areas to life. If and as you as you hand them over to him, he brings life in, which involves healing and helping and everything to other people. You know, and I think a big one for me at this point is that uh, you know, I'm I'm a creative person. I see, I see everything from color design, ideas, a big imagination, um, ability to get things done that maybe pop up in my imagination and that sort of thing. And you might call it a dreamer, but it's kind of a kind of a vision, visionary kind of person. And that wasn't a very books, book smart. I didn't try at booksmart. I wasn't bad at booksmart. I really wasn't. My grades reflected that in school, but then I had people hammering me. Well, you don't try, you don't try. You could be so much more, you could have higher grades if you just try. And I felt like um a failure because I wasn't trying, but I also am a dimensional person. I see, I see in color and and all that, and that was never acknowledged as a piece of whatever, and it never spoke future because it didn't include that, and it's an important part of who I am, evidently.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

Well, it is because we're all different, right? And we're all have the like you said, there is a dimension of us that many times people don't even see. They see how the world sees, they see, oh, you've got to progress in this, you've got to accomplish this because that's their dimension. That's their and like I found that interesting that that's the flatness of it. They don't see beyond how God creates each one of us individually, and we're so and I found it interesting. Um, that that sometimes, like you said, and I'm gonna put this, these are words I kind of put to this, is that it disrupted the rhythm of her life, it blocked that place where you, you know, the flow of you being who you could be, because these signs, these stickers, they get on us, and and it does block us. And and I'm gonna say this too. It it kind of chokes the life right out of it, the vibrancy and it choked you, I'm assuming.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

Yeah, yeah, it does. It stops you, it stuns you, it makes you almost um re self-reject because I must not be doing this right, I must be yes, whatever, because I'm not I'm living up to expectation. I think there's healthy expectations. I was given a math paper, I should do the math paper, you know, and but I was put into a prison by others' expectation. Exactly. And like we said, it wasn't dimensional, they didn't look at whatever traits I had that would have been good to admonish.

SPEAKER_01 13:11

And so, you know, when you think about that, I want to ask a question. Do you feel like you've been put in a prison? You know, brokenness, these words spoken over us, uh, you know, we we're kind of focusing on betrayal, those kind of things will put us into this prison. It will zap the life rate out of you. If because you can't be who you've been created to be. You can't flow like you're you were created to flow. This is something that that um is so important. And then God comes in and says, He he kind of wakens us up and he goes, Wait a minute, those words aren't truly you, right? This is who you really are. And she's and Nadine is kind of you've kind of mentioned who you are. Have you considered that maybe you're believing the wrong things? You're just believing this flatness that keeps you stuck in a place where there's not the real life that God has for you, that freedom, that wholeness that He has designed for you. And you know, when she mentions, and maybe you can talk a little bit more about that.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

That key that came, how did the key, I mean, what what happened after you you put the key in the door, right? Well, I had the key in my hand and I'm looking down at it. And the key is the word of God, and applying that to your life, those are the keys to bring life, to open doors to whatever, you know, uh whatever destiny you have, what he's want has for you, and that Jesus is the key. Yeah, you can add, you can grab it and say, Jesus, you're the key. Open these doors, allow him in. And it's a pretty scary place. I can remember thinking early on in my Christianity, and I would be sitting alone. There's this one particular time was very um poignant for me. I was in a house in the dark, my children were gone with with somebody, and I had the fireplace going, and I was sitting there and I was like, and Lord, I love you. And I mean, I was a very newborn Christian, and just sitting there and praying, and I just felt like this liquid love come over me, and it was so intense, you could almost not take it. It was unfamiliar, but you knew it. I knew it was love, and I knew it was penetrating, and I knew it was pure because it was um, you know, an experience that you it's like a heavenly experience, and it was overwhelming, and it was because I couldn't touch it, I couldn't, you know, a love of a person in my life you can hold hands with, snuggle up to, talk to, whatever. It isn't, it's a different kind of love. It's a it's a pureness that he just penetrates you with.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

And I and I like that, and I believe that God is going to do that with some of you today. It's that liquid love. I'm gonna ask the Lord just to bring it in and put it on you, that liquid love that just flows down through and seeps through your whole heart. So that you know, wherever it is, all those signs, those those stickers, those words and messages that you've heard and and took in as your own, they're not to be held in anymore. That that would that key, we need to open up the door to that and allow that liquid gold, the words that Jesus, who you are in Christ, your true identity. You know, I'm I'm sensing right now that that sometimes we've heard those words, the identity, your true identity. And and um it becomes just cliche. I want to tell you that's not true. We can hear those words. We hear a lot about you need to know your identity. Let me tell you, what she's experienced in a revelatory manner is the awesomeness of God. When he enters in and that liquid starts to flow through you, it removes, it's almost like it just takes all of those stickers off. It takes all of the infection out, it it removes these pain places that that should not have been there in the first place. And God just comes in because you know, one thing that I I know for a fact is that God does these things to us, he's revelatory. You may not have had that experience yet, but I'm gonna pray that you receive the love of God so deeply, whether you may not even know him really, you may only know him in your mind. You know that there is a God. But I want I want him to come in and just make himself alive to you right now. And if you open up your heart to that and you say, Come on in, Lord, let's just, let's just take all these stickers off. Let's just, you know, let them come off in a big way and just fill me up with the truth of who you who I am in you.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

Yeah, and at that time that that happened, I didn't even probably know the word. And and I was just laying there, sitting there in loving the Lord, and He poured that out. It was like an oil, and it just flowed over and in and around, and it was saturating, and just it's nothing that you could experience really. It was touching every part, every dimension of the person, and exactly, and erasing the lines in the division of of um the self-protections and reactions and all of that stuff. It's like nope, just God just loves me.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

Yeah, powerful, it's a powerful thing, you know. When God starts speaking to us in these places and these visions and the depths, it changes us. Yeah, and uh, you know, um I want to share another uh vision with you. It's it wasn't my vision, it was somebody else's vision, but it's interesting, there's three different people that have shared with me a vision, and it had to do with lockers, it had to do with a hallway in a school. Now I'm thinking, God, what are you showing three people in my life, and they're they're having these similar uh visions. In in one particular vision that I was told to me last night was that um they were taken into a hallway and there was a treadmill, you know, like in an airport, you know, you can go on and you just kind of move on, you move through. You don't have to walk, you can just stand there and it just kind of takes you through the hallway. And this is what this person mentioned, but on but they were lockers on all along this hallway. And she mentioned that some of the some of the uh lockers were open, some of them were closed, but some of them had locks on them. They were shut tight with locks. Um when we when we look at that, you know, when we think about we're going through life, lockers to me, hallways, it's all right, like you said, the school. It's all the place of learning, it's a place where we're gonna receive from the Lord, and the Lord was speaking directly to us through this, these visions. And and so, you know, it's I I just saw this as some people are ready, they've got they've got the door open already. They're ready to receive all that God has for them. Some people have parts of it, it's shut, the lockers shut, but they're not completely, you know, they're comp they're open to more. And then you've got some people who are kept the locker shut, it's got the lock in it, they're stuck, they cannot move, they can't, you know, they don't have the key maybe to it. As we talked about, Jesus is the key. And what happened in this particular vision is that, you know. There people are going through on the just standing there, and then all of a sudden there's this uh Holy Spirit comes gushing through, and the locks fall off, all the doors flung open, and people were changed, were were they received the healing, the they were open to all that God had for them. And I find that this is I'm sharing this with you because I believe God is in the process right now where He's not gonna keep us shut or locked up. He wants our doors open, he wants us to come so he can really touch us and just move us forward in an amazing, amazing way. And I believe that as you listen to this, God's gonna open that up, whether you're locked, whether you're shut, or whether you're you're gonna come out because that was the next part of the vision is that adults started coming out of the lockers and getting on the treadmill so that they could go forward. Isn't that powerful?

SPEAKER_00 23:04

It is powerful because you uh you um uh customarily would think of a school as young. Yeah. And so does that say that as you were a youngster, you were put into this locker, you were tucked away, you're even some of it locked, and you were on the inside. So somebody put you in there and locked the door. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty powerful. And I believe that some of the vision that that this person shared was that as you go through and you pray for people and ask God to come into their life, that these locks will just disintegrate and then outsteps an adult. Yes, that's probably been in there for several years and crying out, and I need to get out, and I want to get out, and I want to get out of this and I want to overcome. And and then you start praying, and it allows God to come in there because they maybe they just don't maybe know to call on the Lord. Yeah, so it's time, call time.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

It is time to come out. If you've been shut in a locker and because of words that have been spoken over you, or actions that have done that happened to you. I mean, I've heard lots of stories of people being shoved in a locker and the door shut and they can't get out, and the and there's a whole lot of stuff that happens within that locker. There's fear, there's all kinds of things, and it holds like you, you know, talked about in in your vision there, that the this is when the stickers start coming on, and the things and the fear and the emotions and all of that, but God wants you to come out, come out and allow him to just break off the locks, the locks that maybe we put on ourselves, we because we do it when we believe it. Yeah, yeah. And so um, as we as we close today in this, I just feel really strongly that God is speaking to so many of you, that you know that it is your time, it is your time to come forth, it is your time to push open the door, maybe to put the key in the lock and allow God just to do amazing things in your life.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

Yeah, these were a couple of personal examples. Um, God will have God has a personal example or a personal touch for you as well, and that to realize that you are a dimensional person, you're not a disappointment. You were created in his image, you know, he breathed life into you, and and to get to know him in that capacity as somebody to to father you. I I kind of hate to say the word father because not everybody has a good um image of that as an earthly father. But guess what? Earthly parents disappoint. Um, they are they are busy, they are whatever, and sometimes it it gets misconstrued in your identity, but it wasn't it, it could it just was busyness. There's an understory there that is in parenting, and anybody who is a parent realizes that you love your kids more than you love yourself sometimes, but you you made mistakes, right? And and God is your father, he is your husband, he is the mean the person in your life and that brings you alive, yeah, and let you out.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

Yeah, so I pray that this has blessed you. These this this is these are uh visions that we have received that I believe God speaks powerfully through. So as we close here today, um, we do want to pray that God will seep into you once again, like I said, with that liquid gold, that it will seep into you, but also that you will allow. Oh, I'm feeling the anointing on that. Allow the Holy Spirit to come in and breathe on you, breathe on you mightily, come in and because it's not just a light breath, it's it is a it can be a powerful breath where those locks get fallen off, they fall, the doors get pushed open wide, and you get to come out a different person. You get to come out in the spirit of the Lord, you get to come out in the giftings that he has for you. You get to walk this out as you get on that treadmill, you're gonna walk different, you're gonna be different, you're gonna talk different, you're gonna, you're gonna hit on some amazing things in your life and in people that are around you. So, uh, do you want to pray or finish that or say anything as we close this out, maybe?

SPEAKER_00 27:49

Well, one of the things, I'm not sure, it could have been in Lois's book, but one of the things I heard or absorbed recently was that if God's calling you into something, he's gonna give you the people and the resources and the lessons, whatever you need to accompany you into this new place. You know, you've if you came out of that locker as an adult and went in as a child, you might be thinking as a child, and I'm not gonna be vulnerable again, I'm not doing this, I'm not going to the principal's office, I'm not letting, and you know, but God is saying, you know, trust me, come forward with me. And that I have I have a whole dimension of um healing for you. He will heal you deep, he will go into those places and penetrate, but it's not painful. Yeah, it isn't painful, is keeping them locked, yeah. Painful is staying in the jail, and painful is believing the words, and so God is a gentle God, He's your dad, yeah, like no other. And that He just wants He wants to be invited in. You have you have the key.

SPEAKER_01 28:59

All you gotta do is take it and allow Jesus to do do it all.

SPEAKER_00 29:04

So and and I can remember one other thing that I had prayed early on was Lord, I believe, help me with my unbelief. And somebody had told me that. I was like, Well, that sounds like a good idea, you know. I I got in the shower, I was whatever, I was praying when I said, Lord, I believe, and then help me with my unbelief. I came out, you know, a different person. My heart had changed because I invited him in to that place that had been sealed off or self-protected. So it's it sounds complicated, but it isn't. It's a simple invitation. God's always looking, he's always got the invitation, he's always wooing us and giving us opportunity. And if we see him as the loving, caring father, not the judge and the jury and the you know, the disciplinarian, right? Then you can easily go to that space, go in and talk with him. Just talk with him. That's all it is. Pour out your heart. Well, Father, we pray.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

Any anything else? Well, I have I think I have a word for somebody. Okay, it may be for several people, I'm not sure. But I believe the words have been spoken over you that you have lots of potential. You have potential, but you couldn't quite figure it out. And that word, they would say that, but there was also a negative side to it, and it felt negative to you, even though the people saying it might have meant it to be, you know, I see these great things in you, I see the potential that you have for greatness. But what it did for you is it put on um an expectation that you felt you couldn't manage. I want to say to you, God put that potential in you, and God wants you to now see that as a positive, that is a good spit uh sticker that He put on your life to tell you, I placed some amazing things in you. I created you in an amazing way. And so I just feel like the Lord is gonna heal some of that. He's gonna, he's gonna take off the false narrative, the false expectations of what those words did, and he's gonna put on, oh wow, look at these great and wonderful things that you are to me, says the Lord, but also that I have put inside of you to walk it out.

SPEAKER_00 31:39

Yeah, I'm hearing the word delight. Yeah, his delight is in you. We are his delight. Now, if you're a parent, you might have, you know, you might have that experience watching your own trilon and how they can be delightful in your life, but also watching other people. What's more precious than a little boy and a little girl dancing together at a wedding ceremony, you know, a wedding reception, just because. Yes, and they're loving their clothes, they're loving the music, and they get out and wiggle and dance, and it is just as pure and precious as can be.

SPEAKER_01 32:11

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 32:12

It's delightful. Yeah, and God's saying that we are his delight. Thank you, you are his delight. And he he wants you to realize that you're in his eyes. All right, then pray, finish it up. I guess so. Lord, thank you, Father, that you're always calling us and wooing us, Lord. Thank you, Lord, that you want to touch our heart in the deep places and bring these places to live, alive and our hearts, our mind, our spirit, that we come into um a dimensional person, that we're not believing the stickers and the flat folds and the brochures or whatever of expectations and what we're supposed to be, and that we're not failures, but we've we're gonna invite you into those places that you say are delightful. We invite you in, we take that risk, we call upon that, even if we don't understand it, help me to to do that, you know. Lord, I believe, help my unbelief. I can't believe that I'm worthy. I can't believe that you know, I'm this or I'm that. But he says, You're my delight. Yes, and so Father, we just take that brave step, we say that little little pure prayer under our breath, in our hearts, in our minds, Father. We invite you in. Just come in and be like the wind and go through us in a personal way and transform our lives and our minds. In Jesus' name.

SPEAKER_01 33:41

Amen and amen. Well, thank you for joining us again for a new level awaits you. I pray that this message is going to absolutely take you out of something, a lower level, and put you into the higher level of who Christ says you are.

SPEAKER_00 33:58

We invite you to make comment and share on here as well. Yes. We want to hear the visions and what God has shown you in a personal way, how it's changed your life, how he how he loves on you. It's yeah, it's good.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

Because God has certainly done it for us, and and we'd love to hear your story as well. So God bless you, and we will talk to you the next time. Yeah. I want to thank you for watching and joining me on this journey as we go higher. Expect to grow, expand your territory, and enter into new levels of intimacy with the Lord. Check out my website at loisforwelling.com for books, online courses, podcasts, and other resources to help you soar in the Lord. Are you interested in increasing your confidence, being able to speak assertively, subdue your fears, manage life situations effectively, and overcome rejection or betrayal so that you can tenaciously stand back up again? Then you must sign up for a free strategy session so we can design a plan specifically for you. I now offer one-on-one coaching sessions with group sessions coming soon. My heart is to equip and make disciples and advance them into living a life more abundantly. Yes, my website is loisfelling.com. Check it out, and I hope to be talking to you soon.