About Mark DeJesus

I believe you are here because you are a follower of Christ and you value mental, emotional and relationship health. You want to live a healthier and more fruitful life in God. But you find in your journey has some specific themes you are needing some help with:

  • You have a mental health battle you are struggling with, like OCD, anxiety or depression.
  • You have a loved-one who is struggling and you want to be a help and support. 
  • You want to engage helpful mental health materials, but you also want it to be biblically sound as well. 
  • You want to experience heart healing and freedom in your life.
  • You long to experience God’s love and grace in a deeper way.
  • You want to overcome some limitations and break free from what hinders you.
  • You want your relationships, marriage and family life to improve.

If some of these or all of these resonate at all with you, then what I am all about will be a blessing and encouragement to your journey. 

A theme you will notice in all my ministry work is: 

I love equipping believers to experience healing and freedom in their mental, emotional and relationship health. 

There are some important beliefs I carry in all that I do: 

  • I believe very deeply that everything we teach needs to be rooted in the love of the Father and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.  These precepts are not only foundational for mental health, they are fundamental to every area of the Christian life. Our journey of healing and freedom calls us to grow in the love and grace of God, while learning to think and live as compassionate witnesses of grace. 
  • Mental health is really about emotional health. Emotions are something Christians cannot ignore, for they impact every area of our life. We all need equipping in how to navigate our emotional world.
  • Mental health is connected to our relationship world, with how we relate to God, ourselves and the world around us. I believe that our struggles and battles in life reveal the impact of our relationship breakdown in those areas. 
  • I believe we can walk in mental health insights that get to the heart of our struggles, but also remain biblically sound. Naturally, many who come to my web site want to know a little more about me and get a sense of where I am coming from theologically. If you want to find a doctrinal statement, you can find it HERE
  • I believe in encouraging a journey mindset, where we learn to embrace the journey of healing, learning and renewal. 
  • I believe in providing insights that have practical application, where we can take what is true and put it into action. 

I teach on many subjects, but I love to mainly address the following areas on a regular basis:

  • Healing to the heart and restoration of the Father’s love in our lives. 
  • Experiencing the power of God’s grace through the work of Jesus Christ.
  • Mental health struggles: anxiety, depression, OCD, Scrupulosity and more.
  • Heart healing struggles: healing from the past, working through trauma, recovering from spiritual abuse
  • Relationship struggles
  • Helping believers address personal limitations to their mental, emotional and relationship health. 

A Little About Me

I have served in some form of pastoral and ministry teaching capacity since 1995. I have pastoral experience in both larger church settings (youth pastor, worship director, assistant pastor), smaller church settings (where I was the senior pastor) and years of church consultant work. I also have decades of involvement in one-on-one coaching and counseling work. 

I have a lot of experience in a variety of denominations. For example, I grew up in an Assemblies of God church but also attended an Independent Fundamental Baptist Christian school for both middle and high school. How I attended an AG church and went to a IFB Christian school at the same time is interesting to many, as you do not see these two kinds of churches hanging out together. But the experiences gave me a profound appreciation for the strengths found in many streams of Christianity. It also prepared me for the large variety of Christians I would be interacting with along my journey and bringing help to. 

Today, I have found myself in a wide variety of church and denomination settings, where in all things, I seek to teach on how we can walk in greater mental, emotional and relationship health.

Being of both Scandinavian and Puerto Rican descent, I have a deep appreciation for a variety of cultures and family dynamics. You will often see this in my sense of humor that I love to express in my video content. 

I was born in Hartford, Connecticut and lived in the greater Hartford region until 2018, where I moved my family to Charlotte, North Carolina, where we currently live. I am happily married to my wonderful wife Melissa and I am a dad to two amazing children, Maximus and Abigail.

In 2006, out of my own personal struggles with mental health, a passion rose up in me to help others with the healing and freedom I began to and continue to experience. 

I am a teacher, author and transformational consultant. I love being a husband and father. But most of all, I am God’s child. I am a loved son.

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  3. Subscribe to my YouTube Channel or on Rumble and check out my weekly broadcasts.
  4. Go to my online resources library, where you can search for resources relating to specific topics that you are working through.
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Some of My Top Videos:

  1. This One Scripture Saved My Mental Health
  2. 10 Signs of Relationally Unsafe People
  3. How to Love God with All Your Heart Soul Mind and Strength
  4. 12 Signs You Live with a Victim Mentality
  5. When You Feel Condemned and Don’t Know What to Do
  6. How I Stopped Ruminating
  7. 10 Things I Stopped Doing that Dramatically Improved My Mental Health
  8. 6 Stages for Strengthening Your Identity in Christ
  9. Understanding Your Thought Battles, Spiritual Warfare and Fear Factor
  10. These Thoughts are Not You
  11. How to Stop Being Afraid of Your Thoughts
  12. The Root of Abandonment and Shame Attacks
  13. How to Receive God’s Love Right Now
  14. Two Powerful Ways to Love Yourself as God Loves You
  15. 8 Signs You Are in an Identity Crisis
  16. Do You Have a Rejection Mindset?
  17. Why Do I Struggle to Receive God’s Love?
  18. 10 Helps for OCD and Intrusive Thoughts
  19. 6 Tests for Finding Safe People
  20. 5 Ways You Can Practice Loving Yourself Today

My Top Articles:

  1. How Jesus Addressed the Victim Mentality
  2. The Six Stages of Spiritual Heart Disease
  3. What is Happening Spiritually When the Body Attacks Itself
  4. 8 Signs You Have a Broken Heart
  5. 14 Signs of Spiritual Abuse
  6. 5 Signs of Spiritual Sons and Daughters
  7. How I Got Healed from Acid Reflux and Stomach Issues
  8. 21 Signs You Struggle with Self-Rejection
  9. Getting to the Root of Pornography Addiction
  10. The 10 Toxic Stages of Performance Driven Christianity
  11. The Kind of Fast You Need to Consider: A Negativity Fast
  12. How to Heal a Numb or Checked Out Heart
  13. When Helping Others Goes too Far: False Burden Bearing
  14. Values of Those Who Go Deeper with God
  15. 3 Things to do to Prepare for the Days Ahead
  16. Living Powerfully with a Sensitive Heart

Mark’s Bio:

Mark DeJesus was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut and has been passionate about teaching and equipping hearts for decades. Being of both Scandinavian and Puerto Rican descent, he has an appreciation for a variety of cultures and family dynamics.

Mark has been passionately living for Christ and pursuing God since a very young age. In fact, he remembers being passionate to help people at a very young age and was involved in ministry and leadership work since his teenage years.

Mark has been helping people in a full time capacity since 1995, with a broad spectrum of teaching and leadership experience. He carries experience in a vast array of church cultures, which has contributed to his appreciation for various streams in the body of Christ.

Mark’s deepest passion is that of a teacher and transformational consultant. His desire is to help people recognize their need for heart healing and freedom. His passion involves getting to the core issues in our hearts that contribute to the breakdown of our mental, emotional and relationship health.

Mark’s message comes from a personal passion, stemming out of the personal renovation he experienced, setting him free from mental battles and relationship struggles. Through his own breakthrough, Mark is on a passionate journey of lighting the fires of spiritual transformation in people’s lives. His heart is to equip people to discover a transformed life from the inside out by helping them to experience the love of Father God and the grace of Jesus Christ.

In 2005, Mark met the woman of his dreams, Melissa, who joined him in the pursuit of this mission. Married in 2006, Mark and Melissa ventured from a staff pastoral position to pioneer a new ministry from the ground up. Turning Hearts Ministries International began and has remained a ministry dedicated to inside out transformation.

Their work involves healing broken hearts, setting people free and equipping people in their identity. They also carry a deep desire to see people restored and to build healthy relationships and families.

Mark also broadcasts regular content to help empower believers to experience mental, emotional and relationship health.

Mark and Melissa live in Charlotte, North Carolina, and are committed to raising their two wonderful children, Maximus John and Abigail Hope. They value their family as a high priority and seek to minister out of the overflow of what God is doing in their home.

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Short Bio for Mark DeJesus:

Mark DeJesus has served as an experienced communicator since the 1990s. As a teacher, author, transformational consultant, He brings decades of pastoral and ministry experience to his current work in developing materials to help people experience healing and freedom. Mark is passionate about equipping people to experience mental, emotional and relationship health. He is gifted in providing biblically grounded perspectives that help others address the core issues that influence the limitations and struggles they face. He is the author of numerous books and a vast library of teachings. Mark and his wife founded Turning Hearts Ministries International and their broadcasts can be found at markdejesus.com. Mark and his wife Melissa enjoy raising their precious children Maximus and Abigail.