Faith Bits with ALI
Faith Bits with ALI offers heartfelt prophetic insight and practical guidance to help believers live authentically in Christ. Join Alicia also known as ALI as she shares personal stories and “bits” of faith-filled wisdom on topics like inner healing, prayer, and spiritual transformation for a lifestyle aligned with God’s heart.
Faith Bits with ALI
Having The Comforter In The Uncomfortable
Comfort feels good, but growth happens in discomfort. This episode dives deep into one of Christianity's most challenging paradoxes: why believers equipped with the Holy Spirit still face uncomfortable moments, and how these moments become essential to our spiritual formation.
When you choose authentic faith as a lifestyle, the battle between spirit and flesh becomes real. Your regenerated spirit pulls you toward God's ways while your flesh clings to familiar patterns and worldly desires. Which will you allow to control your life? As a new creation in Christ, leaving behind old mindsets isn't optional—it's fundamental to walking in your true identity. But this process rarely feels comfortable.
A powerful question frames our discussion: "If our lives were meant to be comfortable, why would God promise us the Holy Spirit as our comforter?" The very provision of a Comforter suggests discomfort is part of the journey. Rather than avoiding uncomfortable situations, what if we invited the Holy Spirit into them? Daily surrender opens us to experience "peace that surpasses all understanding" even when circumstances remain challenging.
The crushing, pruning, and suffering we experience produce spiritual fruit when surrendered to God. Though we may not understand every difficult season, we can walk confidently knowing the Holy Spirit remains with us through it all. Join me in welcoming God into your uncomfortable moments, trusting His promise to work all things for good. Listen now and discover how discomfort becomes sacred ground for encountering God's presence.
Hey everyone, welcome back to Faith Bits with Allie. I'm your host, allie, with your daily faith bit. When we choose to walk out Christianity as a lifestyle, you quickly learn that you will face uncomfortable moments. Your spirit will grapple with your flesh daily and you have to decide which one is in control. As a born-again believer, you are a new creation in Christ and you will have to leave those old mindsets and those old behaviors behind.
Speaker 1:In preparing for this episode, I read on a social media post If our lives were meant to be comfortable, why would God promise us the Holy Spirit as our comforter? So know that, no matter how uncomfortable it may get, we have the Holy Spirit as our comforter. We have the Holy Spirit as our comforter as we go through life. There will be times where we will need to step outside of our comfort zones, and when we do this, we have to trust that God wants to be right there with us. So welcome Him into the process.
Speaker 1:When we choose to daily surrender, we may not be able to fully understand the crushing and the pruning and sufferings of this walk, but we are able to walk in the peace that surpasses all understanding and Holy Spirit, our comforter, getting us through those uncomfortable moments, let me pray for you, lord. I thank you for being our comforter. We welcome you into the process of any situation that takes place in life, and so, in those uncomfortable moments, lord, we surrender them to you. We trust that you work all things out for good, and we trust that you want the best for us. So, no matter what it feels like, we choose to journey with you, and so thank you for being right there with us, walking this out with us daily. We desire to live spirit-led lives following your unctions and your leadings, and so we continue to come back to you in all things, knowing that the plans that you have for us are good. So, thank you, thank you for being there with us. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen, peace, love and blessings.