Altar Experience w/ Dr Teresa Hegwood

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Have you ever felt the weight of others' expectations holding you back from your true purpose? Dr. Teresa Hegwood knows this feeling all too well.

During this powerful conversation, Dr. Hegwood opens up about her transformative experience at the Altar Experience event, where she arrived feeling "tired, exhausted, picked out, picked on, and lied on." What follows is a remarkable story of breaking free from limitation and reclaiming divine authority. When Dr. Capehart preached about removing the "grave clothes" that bind us—those spoken words of death that keep us from our purpose—Dr. Hegwood recognized herself as "that one person" who needed the breakthrough.

As a Family Nurse Practitioner with a doctoral degree, Dr. Hegwood navigates the complex challenges of being a woman of color in healthcare, facing opposition not just from outside her community but sometimes from within it. Her work spans mental health, detox, rehabilitation, and primary care, requiring her to address every aspect of her patients' wellbeing. Through it all, she's discovered that true power comes not from titles or others' approval, but from standing firm in her divine purpose.

"I take my power back, I take my authority back. I am who God says I am," she declares with conviction that's impossible to ignore. For anyone feeling diminished or constrained by others' expectations, Dr. Hegwood offers this wisdom: "Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. When people want you to sit down, when people want you to take down, stand still and firm on the Word of God."

Join us for this month-long series featuring inspiring stories from the Altar Experience. And remember—burn through the past, break the cycle, and become unstoppable in your purpose.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hello everyone, welcome to Be Free.
You and I'm your girl, brieCharles, the host of the show
and I am so excited about whatwe are going to be running all
month long, and that is theAlter Experience.
This was an experience like noother.
I truly had a great timeinterviewing some of the guests

(00:32):
at the altar experience.
I want to just thank right nowPastor Moena Tucker and Jamie
Tucker for inviting me out tothe altar experience, where I
was blessed beyond measure withthe words that was coming out,
so I'm hoping that you as wellhere my listeners are just as

(00:53):
blessed as I was to hear some ofthe interviews and some of the
entertainment that we will beshowing all month long.
So take a look, enjoy andremember, burn through the pad,
break the cycle and becomeunstoppable.
This is what it's all about.
Check it out.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Hello everyone.
So we have Dr Teresa Hayboard.
Dr Teresa Hayboard Awesome, Idid hear a little bit of your
testimony.
Tell me what you got out of thealtar experience.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Oh, my goodness, I got everything that my state and
the heat, when I say everything, and that was just the personal
Tired, exhausted, picked out,picked on.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Lied on yes, lied on yes, the whole nine yards.
But when Dr Capehart preachedthat word and she said she was
coming specifically for oneperson, I was that one person.
Yes, I was that one person thatneeded the breakthrough, that

(02:07):
needed to be broken from thechains of expectations of others
and just needing to hear that,no matter what I was going
through, that God was justpreparing me and for getting
ready I'm going to paraphrase topropel me to where he had

(02:27):
ordained for me to go.
And I needed to hear it.
I needed every word that shesaid.
And thinking about how Noah thatwas the other young lady.
Today she's thinking about Noahthat was the other young lady.
Today she's thinking about Noah, but Dr K Clark, she was

(02:52):
talking about mastery.
Yes, she had risen from thedead and that he was sick.
But when they took the graveclothes off, mm-hmm, when they
took the grave clothes off,tuned to the tape, yes, yes, yes
, the grave clothes that wasbeing taken off, he was being
freed from the ones that spokedeath over him.

(03:15):
So each one had to come backand remove that spoken word of
death over him from him.
And that was so free.
It was powerful.
That was the most powerfulthing that I had to hear, also
this today very powerful, verypowerful.

(03:38):
I truly the Noah, yes, I trulyenjoyed everything that I heard,
the mindset, knowing thatremind body and spirit, and I
just thank and praise the Lordfor the opportunity to be here
to support and just glean fromeverybody that had to pour out.

(03:59):
It was truly a blessing.
Those that did not come, I'msaying, I'm saying they missed a
blessing.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
So do you feel like you think we were talking and
they mentioned a little bitabout taking back the power and
I know in your position we haveexperienced a lot of trials and
tribulation.
Do you feel like now you aremore on that path to take back
your power, and how Do?

Speaker 1 (04:25):
you feel like now you are more on that path to take
back your power and how?

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Huh, yes, and the wall.
And in my professional you know, being a woman of color With
the position of a doctoraldegree, meeting opposition not

(04:48):
just from Caucasians or anyother persuasion, but even from
my own, what that does for me islet me know that you know I'm
not wrestling against fleshyblood, but against
principalities and powers andwickedness in high places, but

(05:13):
first and foremost, the Bible isnot lying, that's right.
It's the Lord, and I take mypower back, I take my authority
back.
I am who God say I am.
I will do what God says I willdo.
So that's what I know to do.

(05:33):
That's what has been reinforcingme and it gave me that to get
up and stand, no matter whatanybody says, no matter what
anybody thinks.
The power and the strength andthe authority comes from God.
It's not about me, but it'sabout the souls being saved.
Even in my work, I have to dealwith mental health.

(05:57):
I have to deal with everyaspect of a person, from the
crown of their head to the soleof their feet, and so God gave
me back that strength that Ineed to go back and be what I
need to be for the people that Itake care of and do it with
love, with grace and under hisanointing.
Isn't that my own?

(06:17):
So?

Speaker 2 (06:17):
let me ask you one question what is it that you do?
Can you tell my viewers what itactually is?
You do.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
I am a family nurse practitioner, family nurse
practice.
So in family nurse practitioner, uh, the areas that I have
worked in, I have worked inmental health, I have worked in
um uh, detox and rehab and I amprimary care.
Okay, so I do the primary carebut as again I have to meet

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every aspect, I'm the one thatstabilizes everybody, diagnose
everybody, treat everybody.
So before they get to mentalhealth therapy or mental health
providers, they come through mefirst, so I'm the first one that
they see.
If there's any mental healthissues, I have to take care of

(07:09):
those.
If they need to talk tosomebody, I have to take care of
that.
Whatever medical need that theystand in need of, I have to do
that.
But I always encourage them.
If they have a deity which isJesus Christ, if they have a
deity which is Jesus Christ, youknow, I can always point them
back to the original, theoriginal healer, which is Christ

(07:33):
Jesus.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
All right.
My last question will be whatwould you tell a woman in your
position who may be goingthrough the same struggle?
What encouragement could yougive that person?

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Stand still and see the salvation in the phone.
Stand still.
God will make a way when peoplewant you to sit down, when
people want you to take down.
Stand still and firm on theWord of God, because it's in Him
that I move, I live and I havemy being.

(08:05):
People will say that you'retrying to place yourself above
others or you're trying to makea name for yourself.
You don't have to do that.
God does that for you.
That's right.
He does that for you.
So, sisters, brothers that arestriving to be all that God has

(08:25):
ordained for you to be, continueto strive in the Lord and
remember that he is the authorand the finisher of your faith
and your course.
No man can tell you who you arein Christ but him.
And if he say that that's whoyou are, dare to walk in it and
dare to stand on it, amen.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, there you stand on it, amen Bella.
There, you've heard it.
Thank you so much.