Mind Bully

Recorded live from a co-working space in New Jersey — couch surfing, sublet starting June 1st, figuring it out day by day — Norense opens this episode with a question that most people are too afraid to ask out loud:
What do you do when God doesn't come through the way you thought He would?
It started with an Instagram Live. A viewer kept asking the same question over and over: "How do I have more faith that God will get me and my girl back together?" And instead of answering on the surface, Norense went deeper — to the root of why we ask the questions we ask, and what we're really crying out for when we try to box God into the shape of our broken heart.
This episode is for anyone in a season of loss — a relationship, a role, an identity — who is still trying to control how God shows up instead of trusting who He already is.
In this episode:
Why the question you keep asking God reveals what you've placed your identity in — and how to find it again
What it means to box God into the shape of your broken heart — and why it leaves Him no room to be who He is
How loss — of a relationship, a role, a season — is often God's protection disguised as pain
Why God has already answered your prayer — and the real question is whether you're answering His call
The power of serving in your season of need — and how giving unlocks what asking never could
Why you don't know God like this until life forces you into a situation you've never seen before
A personal word on surrender: losing a sister to leukemia, losing cousins, navigating a new city alone — and still trusting the process
Featured: Chandler Moore's "What I Needed" — and why the lyric "it's foolish of me to box you in the shape of my broken heart" captures everything this episode is about.
Key Truth: "Deploy yourself. Don't just look for employment — deploy yourself. Because everything is working together for your good."
Key Verse: John 1:1 — In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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Digital diary entries to explore my racing thoughts, to challenge my own assumptions, to examine and name my emotions, to express my feelings, while applying God's truth over my everyday situations..

God already said it's yours. But you still have to go take it.
That's the tension at the heart of Episode 244 — and it's one of the most convicting episodes Norense has recorded. Live from a 12th floor apartment overlooking the Hudson River in New York City, he unpacks the story of the 12 spies in Numbers 13 and delivers a message that will hit anyone who has ever talked themselves out of what God put in front of them.
The land was flowing with milk and honey. God had already shown up — through the Red Sea, through the wilderness, through fire by night and cloud by day. And ten of the twelve spies still came back and said: we were like grasshoppers in our own sight.
That's not just an Old Testament story. That's you every time you automatically reject an opportunity, shrink back from a God-given idea, or let someone else's failed experience become your ceiling.
In this episode:
The story of Caleb and Joshua — and what separated them from the ten spies who gave a bad report
Why automatic rejection is the fruit of low self-esteem — and what's really at the root
How spreading a bad report about your own life pulls other people down with you
Why staying in place is actually the irrational choice — not going forward
What it means to "possess the land" in your real, everyday life right now
Why God makes His appeal to the world through you — which means sitting on the promise isn't an option
A live testimony: a PATH train conductor in New York who recognized Norense and reminded him that faith in action produces fruit — even when you can't see it
Key Truth: "You are irrational for staying in place."
Key Verse: Numbers 13:30 — Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and take possession of it, for we will certainly conquer it."
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Digital diary entries to explore my racing thoughts, to challenge my own assumptions, to examine and name my emotions, to express my feelings, while applying God's truth over my everyday situations..

Eight hotels. Twenty-one days in New York. Sick throat. Camera cutting out. No sublet locked in.
And Norense is still recording — because that's what confidence in God looks like when it stops being a concept and starts being a lifestyle.
This episode is a raw, unfiltered thought dump from a hotel room in Manhattan — a real-time reminder that confidence isn't built in the comfortable moments. It's forged in the uncertain ones. Norense unpacks what it means to stay bold in who you are when everything around you is shifting, and why the moment you stop giving God thanks is the moment your confidence starts to collapse.
Drawing from Romans 1, Norense reveals the dangerous connection between ingratitude and a darkened mind — and why praise isn't optional. It's protective.
In this episode:
Why confidence is something you hold onto — not something you throw away when obstacles come
The Romans 1 warning: what happens to your mind when you stop giving God thanks and glory
How nitpicking yourself into the ground is actually lowering the standard God set for how you should see yourself
Why you're not defined by every thought that comes into your head — and what to do with the ones that try to take you down
The difference between thinking too highly of yourself and thinking too lowly — and why both are dangerous
Why trying seasons don't break you — they reveal capacity you didn't know you had
A personal inventory: sexual assault, suicidal ideation, losing loved ones, losing in sport — and why none of it disqualifies you
Key Truth: "I don't know where I'm going, but I know who's with me."
Key Verse: Romans 1:21 — Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
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