Horses & Holy Moments

Jesus died for our sins and gave us everlasting life. But Ingela believes there is more to the gospel than many of us were taught: He saved us from a life without Him. Through His blood we have access to the presence of God — not one day, but today. So why do so many believers go through their day without ever experiencing it?

In this episode, Ingela and Corrie talk about the importance of His presence and why it is never God who is hiding. Ingela shares how for years she thought experiencing God was a matter of chance — in the shower, in the car, in a worship service — and how she later spent years striving to get in, praying up a storm, before she discovered it was about letting go and falling into His arms. She makes an honest confession about seeking God to get something to share rather than simply to be with Him, and explains why time alone in adoration is what empowers us to live the Christian life instead of trying in our own strength. And then she brings it to the paddock. The performance orientation we carry from childhood follows us to our horses, and they feel it. Horses want to be with us before they want to do anything with us, and they can only find their peace in us if we have found ours in Him.

Whether you are a horse person caught in the performance trap or a believer who knows there must be more, this episode is an invitation to come back to His presence first.

A beautiful Andalusian stallion with a twisted gut. A vet who said there was nothing more he could do. An owner in tears. And Ingela, kneeling beside the dying horse, so sick with nausea she could barely speak — fighting a twenty-minute battle just to get her own soul to worship God.

In this extraordinary episode, Ingela tells the story of the only resurrection of a horse she has ever witnessed. She describes the moment her spirit and soul went to war inside her, how she forced herself to stay and pray when every part of her body wanted to leave, and the moment she finally broke through into God’s presence and asked the only question that mattered: Father, what do you want to do here? What came next was a voice she had never heard before — a child’s voice, using a word she would never use, speaking with absolute clarity: the horsey is going to sleep for a little while and then he is going to be fine. And then the horse died. Eyes rolled back. Jaw crossed. Breathing stopped. What happened after that is one of the most powerful holy moments in the history of this podcast.

Whether you are a person of deep faith or someone who has never experienced a miracle, this episode will challenge everything you thought you knew about what is possible when God speaks.

What makes a horse fearless? Not desensitisation. Not repetition. Not dominance. A horse becomes fearless when he finds a leader he can fully trust — someone who carries an atmosphere of love, peace, and joy that he can step into and rest.

In this foundational teaching episode, Ingela unpacks the core principles of True Connection, beginning with what she calls the love bubble: the real, tangible atmosphere of love that a horseperson creates and extends to the horse. She explains why the love bubble must overflow rather than be pushed, why we must feel loved ourselves before we can give love to our horse, and how connecting to the presence of God fills us with the very substance our horse is longing for. She draws a powerful parallel between the fully yielded horse — soft, trusting, powerful in his relaxation — and the beauty of biblical submission, where yielding to a selfless leader is not weakness but the doorway to freedom. And she connects it all to Matthew 7:24: building on the rock so that when the storm comes, the relationship holds.

Whether you are new to True Connection or have been following Ingela for years, this episode lays the groundwork that everything else is built on. No tricks. No shortcuts. Just love, peace, joy, and a horse who chooses to stay.

A group of First Nations youth on a reservation in Northern British Columbia. Drinking beer, smoking, leaning against a car, completely uninterested in the Christian group that had arrived. Zero openness. Zero curiosity. Zero invitation to talk about God. So Ingela did what nobody expected: she challenged them to a competition. Five of their best horsemen against her, one woman, to see who could be first to ride a bucking horse bareback in a halter.

You are stressed. Maybe it is low-level, maybe it is all-consuming, but it is always there humming beneath the surface. And when you walk out to your horse carrying that stress, he feels it before you pick up the halter. He cannot rest in you if you have not first found rest yourself.

A conference speaker tells Ingela she will one day stand in the palaces of the sheikhs in the Middle East. She is farming sheep in a small English village. She does not know a single person in the Arab world. So what does she do? She reroutes her flights through Dubai, walks around the airport praying, and tells her staff that any call from the Middle East gets a yes — even if it is a child with a three-legged donkey.

You believe God speaks. You want to hear Him. But every time you try, you are left wondering: was that Him, or was that just me? In this deeply practical episode — the third in a powerful series on hearing God’s voice — Ingela walks through the many different ways God communicates with His children: through the written Word and the living Rhema Word, through the still small voice, pictures, visions, dreams, the inner knowing, circumstances, and even through smell. She uses a brilliant pink elephant exercise live in the episode to show the difference between our own imagination and what comes from God’s Spirit.

Then she unpacks the Habakkuk 2 framework that changed her own prayer life: be still, fix your eyes on Jesus, watch for what He shows you, and write it down. She and Corrie talk honestly about the fear of getting it wrong, why your soul can override God’s voice when you want something too badly, and why journaling is one of the most powerful tools for learning to recognise Him. Whether you have never heard God’s voice or you hear Him daily and want to go deeper, this episode gives you a framework you can start using the moment you press pause.

You have probably heard it before: God speaks to His children. But what does that actually sound

like? How do you know when it is Him and not just your own thoughts, your fears, or something

worse? In this deeply practical follow-up to the animal communication episode, Ingela and Corrie

tackle one of the most important questions a believer can ask: how do I discern the voice of God

from all the other voices in my head? Ingela explains why every voice — God’s, the enemy’s, and

our own — sounds like our own thoughts, and gives clear, experience-tested keys to tell them

apart. She shares how God often interrupts our daily thinking with a spontaneous flow of love, how

the enemy’s voice always carries shame and condemnation, and why stillness and adoration are

the doorway to hearing clearly. Corrie opens up about her own journey of learning to hear God —

and how it changed everything once she realised it was not reserved for special people. Together

they offer a beautiful invitation: the God who made you and your horse is speaking right now. He

has never stopped. The question is not whether He is talking — it is whether you have learned to

recognise His voice. This episode will help you begin.

Animal communication is sweeping the horse world. People are claiming their horses are telling them to change their names, explaining why they refuse to canter, and diagnosing family problems. But is that really the horse talking?

In this important and timely episode, Ingela and Corrie take on one of the most controversial topics in natural horsemanship today. Ingela breaks down the different levels of communication that are absolutely real and learnable — reading body language, understanding spatial awareness, feeling energy, and building a genuine heart-to-heart connection with your horse. Then she draws a clear, bold line: when people claim their horse is speaking in sentences, answering questions about human problems, or requesting a name change, that is not the horse. Something else is speaking. She explains what the horse’s brain can and cannot do, walks through the different voices that can fill our minds — God, the enemy, our own soul — and shares a powerful real-life example of how well-meaning horse lovers can unknowingly open a dangerous door.

Whether you have been curious about animal communication, sceptical of it, or somewhere in between, this episode gives you the clarity and the courage to know the difference. And it offers a far better alternative: ask the One who made the horse. He knows everything.

A banned racehorse. Three injured jockeys. A panicked black stallion who attacked anyone who came near him. And a woman with three days to fix what an entire racing industry could not.

In this extraordinary episode, Ingela tells the full story of Wolf’s Son — a thoroughbred stallion in Istanbul, Turkey, whose fear and trauma had made him too dangerous to race. She was flown in as a last resort, given just 72 hours before his official starting test, and spent 16 to 18 hours a day working with a horse the whole yard had given up on.

She shares the breakthrough connection she built with Wolf’s Son in the round pen, the painstaking hours at the starting gate, the devastating setback on day two that nearly destroyed everything — and the moment she lay on her hotel bed, out of skill and out of time, and asked God for the one thing no training manual could provide.

What happened the next morning is one of the most powerful holy moments in the history of this podcast. Whether you work with horses or not, this episode will remind you that when you have reached the end of what you can do, God is just getting started.