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Most people want the blessing of God…but they’re not prepared for the confrontation that comes first.

The Word doesn’t just comfort you — the Word challenges you. It searches you. It exposes what’s misaligned. It reveals what cannot go with you into the next season.

This confrontation is not punishment. It is preparation. God confronts because God intends to bless.

This is How the Word Confronted Me

There was a moment where I received a Scripture with so much excitement…and then within days, the exact opposite of that promise started happening. And I found myself asking God:

>“Why does everything get worse right when I start obeying You?”

>“Why do things get harder right when I try to obey God?”

>“Why do I get attacked the moment I start to grow?”

>“Why do I feel exposed, irritated, offended, or frustrated right after reading the Word?”

>“Why does the Word confront parts of me I didn't even know were there?”

He gave me one word:

ROOTS.

He said: “You don’t know what’s in the soil until My Word hits it.”

And that changed everything.

But, before that happened this is what the Word exposed in my heart:

• pride
• fear
• selfish motives
• hidden unbelief
• emotional immaturity
• religious performance
• unhealed places

The Word did EXACTLY what it was sent to do. It revealed what had been buried under all the layers… the parts of me I didn’t want to look at but desperately needed healing from. I was stunned… angry… even embarrassed. Not at God — at least not at first — but at myself.
​WHY?

Because I genuinely thought, “Wait… after all these years of being a Christian, how am I still missing the mark?”

Not the mark of perfection…
but the mark of relationship,
the mark of daughtership,
the mark of identity through Christ Jesus.

It was like the Holy Spirit gently held up a mirror and said,
​“This is what’s been shaping you — but it’s not who you are.”

And here’s the part we don’t like to admit:

Sometimes the Word doesn’t feel good, because it’s digging up what’s been buried deep in the soil.

Now — like I said last week — I want to pause right here.

Because you might be reading this message and quietly wondering,
​“Where am I missing the mark?”

And I want to say this to you:

Breathe.​
These are the moments that don’t feel good.
They’re not the moments that make you get up and shout.
But they are the moments that make you think…
the moments that make you wonder…
the moments that invite you to let God put His hand on the very thing you’ve buried.

And as you read through the rest of this post, I want you to ask yourself:

What might the Word be revealing in my heart right now?
Am I offended?
Did a memory suddenly rise up as I was reading?

If so — pause.
Don’t rush past that moment. That’s an invitation from God.

He’s putting His hand on something He wants to address in your heart right now. It might be something you avoided. Something you forgot about. Something you never slowed down long enough to heal.

Whatever that situation or memory is — don’t shrug it away.
No. Address it.

2 Corinthians 10:5 that thought immediately and take it straight to the feet of Jesus Christ.

Let me tell you something before we move forward:

Don’t miss your moment of healing.
Don’t miss your moment of breakthrough.

Those memories, that trauma, that wound that God is pulling to the surface are revealing what’s been hiding. And believe it or not — because you never dealt with it when it happened, it has still been making decisions for you. It has still been shaping your reactions, your boundaries, your confidence, and your faith.

The places where you’re still holding onto wounds or trauma…these are the places where you’re not healed yet. If that's you......

It’s time to forgive:

• yourself
• God (yes — for the places you felt abandoned)
• that man
• that woman
• your past failures
• the version of you who didn’t know what she knows now, and take it all — all of it — to the feet of Jesus Christ.

Friend, when you get a moment today — whether after you finish this message or even if you need to pause right now — sit with the Holy Spirit and Psalm 139:23–24 your heart.

Because God is ready to heal that hidden wound you’ve been carrying for years. He’s not exposing it to shame you — He’s exposing it to free you.
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The Word Is Sent to Do a Job — and Confrontation Is Part of It

Isaiah 55:11 teaches us something powerful:

“My Word… will accomplish what I please.”

This means the Word has an assignment. And part of that assignment is to confront anything in you that’s blocking fruit.

• Before God multiplies you, He purifies you.
• Before God promotes you, He matures you.
• Before God blesses you, He aligns you.

The Word Confronts the Heart, Not the Image

This is where Mark 4 becomes so real. Four people can hear the same Word…but only one becomes fruitful.

Why?

Because the Word does not respond to:

• emotions
• hype
• appearance
• religious activity
• surface-level agreement

The Word responds to heart posture.

1. The shallow heart gets excited.
2. The hard heart gets offended.
3. The distracted heart gets choked.
4. But the good heart — the good soil — receives the confrontation, allows the correction, welcomes the depth… and becomes fruitful.

Confrontation Is a Sign of God’s Care, Not His Anger

Hebrews 4:12 tells us the Word cuts before it heals. It reveals the intentions of the heart. God never confronts you to shame you.

He confronts you to:

1. cleanse
2. free
3. upgrade
4. transform
5. prepare
6. protect

The Word doesn’t just comfort your heart. It discerns it.

It separates:

• soul from spirit
• emotion from truth
• trauma from identity
• fear from calling
• religion from relationship

The Word isn’t trying to embarrass you. It’s trying to FREE you. God will always expose the thing-He intends to heal.

• He will always reveal the motive-He intends to purify.
• He will always confront the lie-He intends to break.
• He will always test the root before He blesses the fruit.

So if you’ve been asking:

“Why is this so hard?”

“Why does it feel like everything is coming at me at once?”

“Why do I feel irritated, exposed, or emotional after I read the Word?”

It’s because:

You’re in a Word-testing season. Not a punishment season.

Not a failure season. A refining season.

The Word is working. The soil is being turned.

The roots are being exposed. The motives are being purified.

The faith is being stretched.

This is not God abandoning you. This is God preparing you.

And this is usually where many believers resist the confrontation, because it's too hard, but the confrontation is the very thing that leads to blessing. You cannot change what you refuse to face.

Four Main Emotional Responses (And what God is Healing, Breaking, or Maturing in Your Heart)

1️⃣ OFFENSE — “The Word Hit a Wound”

Offense is the #1 indicator that the Word hit a place of unhealed identity.

Jesus said: in — Mark 4:17

Not because the Word was wrong, but because the Word touched a place where truth and wound were colliding.

So here's what Offense sounds like:

1. “Why would God ask that of me?”
2. “I don’t like this Scripture right now.”
3. “That message felt harsh.”
4. “I didn’t want to hear that.”
5. “This feels unfair.”

Offense is the soil telling you there’s a wound beneath it. The Word isn’t trying to hurt you. It’s trying to heal the thing that keeps hurting you.

When offense rises, ask the Holy Spirit:

“What wound did that Word touch?”

Trust me, He will show you.

2️⃣DISCOMFORT — “The Word Is Stretching You”

Discomfort is not punishment — it’s stretching.

It’s the feeling that comes when God is:

• enlarging your faith inviting you into deeper trust, calling you out of survival mode, asking for obedience you don’t feel ready for,
• shifting you into a Kingdom mindset

Discomfort feels like:

1. “I know what God said but I don’t know how…”
2. “This feels bigger than me.”
3. “I’m out of my depth.”
4. “I feel vulnerable.”
5. “I’m not used to functioning at this level.”

This is what Deuteronomy 8:2 describes: “…that He might humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart.”

3️⃣ RESISTANCE — “Your Flesh Doesn’t Agree With Your Spirit Yet”

Resistance doesn’t mean rebellion —it usually means misalignment.

Resistance rises when:

your emotions say “no” but your spirit knows the truth and the Holy Spirit is nudging you back into alignment.

Resistance often sounds like:

1. “I don’t feel like praying.”
2. “I don’t want to forgive them.”
3. “I’m tired.”
4. “I don't feel like obeying.”
5. “I don’t want to take this step.”

The month of Kislev began on November 21-It’s a very prophetic month of revealing and realigning. Kislev is the month where God shines a light on the places in us that cannot carry the weight of the next season. It’s where He exposes the cracks not to shame us, but to strengthen us.

Resistance shows up right there — in the cracks. Because resistance is usually the last push of your old identity before your new identity becomes dominant. This is why Hebrews 4 says:

“The Word divides soul from spirit…” Your soul — your mind, your will, your emotions — wrestles with your spirit, which is the Spirit of truth in you.

Galatians 5:17 says it clearly:

“The flesh wars against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.”

They are in direct opposition.

So when resistance rises, it’s not a sign that you’re failing — it’s a sign that transformation is happening in the deepest part of you.

4️⃣IRRITATION —“The Word Is Breaking a Stronghold”

Irritation happens when the Word confronts a pattern, habit, or belief system that has been operating in you for YEARS.

Irritation may sound like:

1. “Why does this keep coming up?!”
2. “Why am I annoyed?”
3. “Why is this Scripture challenging me, again?”
4. “Why am I so sensitive to this topic?”

Friend…it’s because the Word is going after a stronghold.

A stronghold is not just a bad habit. It’s a deeply rooted lie the enemy planted long before you had the language to name it. It’s something you subconsciously built your identity around.

This is why James 1 says:

“Let endurance have its full effect…” Because irritation is really endurance training for your identity.

Irritation is the soil turning over.

It’s the root system being exposed.

It’s the lie losing its grip.

It’s deliverance —happening from the inside out.

And I know this firsthand.

There were moments where I thought I had dealt with something…

I thought I had healed…

I thought I had outgrown certain reactions —only to realize my old identity was still trying to speak loudly in that area.

And here’s what I noticed:

Whenever I get irritated in an area where I haven’t yet built a new strategy—or where I have built a new strategy but it hasn’t been fully strengthened yet—that irritation shows me exactly where I’m still growing.

It’s not failure.

It’s feedback.

Because the only way to break a stronghold is to do the opposite of what the lie wants you to do. This is the endurance training for your identity.

1. If the lie wants you to shut down — you stay present.
2. If the lie wants you to react — you pause and breathe.
3. If the lie wants you to withdraw — you reach out for help.
4. If the lie wants you to obey fear — you take a small step of faith.

Every time you choose the opposite behavior, you’re weakening the lie. You’re starving the stronghold. You’re strengthening the new identity God is building in you.

And because I would rather be in alignment than in agreement with a lie…I take the necessary steps to ask myself:

“Why am I irritated right now? What is this moment exposing? Where is the Holy Spirit trying to heal me?”

And I put Psalms 139:23-24 on it. Because, here's what I've learned that irritation becomes an invitation. An invitation to let God turn the soil again and remove whatever’s been hiding beneath the surface.

These 4 emotions are evidence that you are becoming good soil.

And if you can learn to recognize these emotional signals, you won’t run from the Word —you’ll run toward what it’s doing in you.

Blessing Requires Room — and Confrontation Makes Space

Jeremiah 1:10 shows God’s process:

• Uproot
• Tear down
• Destroy
• Overthrow

THEN

• Build
• Plant

God always clears what needs to go before He releases what needs to come. That uncomfortable conviction you feel? That’s God clearing the ground. That’s God making room for increase. That’s God preparing you for new oil, new faith, new responsibility.

The Word Confronts the False You So It Can Bless the Real You

Some things God is confronting right now are:

• old identities
• survival habits
• emotional patterns
• religious thinking
• rejection-based responses
• performance tendencies
• fear-driven decisions

Not because He’s angry —but because He’s upgrading you. God confronts the version of you that won’t survive the next season so He can reveal the version of you that will.

HOW TO DISCERN GOD’S TESTING vs. THE ENEMY’S ATTACK

GOD’S TESTING feels like:

1. conviction
2. exposure
3. stretching
4. refinement
5. reflection
6. inner questions
7. surrender
8. humility
9. alignment

It’s uncomfortable, but it leads you toward God. This is the key point- if it leads you towards God, it's God's testing.

THE ENEMY’S ATTACK feels like:

1. confusion
2. pressure
3. chaos
4. accusation
5. overwhelm
6. discouragement
7. fear
8. shame
9. distraction

It’s destructive and tries to pull you away from God.

HOW THEY WORK TOGETHER

• The enemy attacks your emotions. God tests your heart.
• The enemy pressures your mind. God strengthens your spirit.
• The enemy wants to uproot you. God wants to deepen your roots.
• The enemy tries to choke the seed. God ensures the seed produces fruit.

Both can happen at the same time —but they have completely different purposes.

Activation: How to Respond When the Word Confronts You

1. Surrender your defensiveness. Stop running. Stop resisting. Let God examine the heart.
2. Ask the better question: “Lord, what are You preparing me for?”
3. Journal what the Word is revealing. Confrontation reveals your assignment.
4. Declare: “I am good soil. Your Word can shape me.”
5. Move with humility. Transformation starts where pride ends.

Final Encouragement

If God is confronting you, it’s because He intends to increase you. The Word searches so it can strengthen. The Word cuts so it can heal. The Word confronts so it can bless. You are not being torn down —you are being prepared. You are becoming good soil. And good soil always produces fruit.

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From Survival Mode to Spirit-Led Identity Hi, I’m Idina—a Kingdom entrepreneur, Holy Spirit-led identity coach, and voice of truth called to help women heal, rediscover their God-given identity, and build with clarity and excellence. I need to tell you something honestly: It wasn’t always like this. The clarity, confidence, and flow you see in me today — I didn’t start here. For years, I lived in survival mode. I prayed but doubted myself. I served everyone but ignored my own needs. I pushed, performed, hustled… hoping something would finally shift. But nothing did — because I was building my life backwards. I had faith. I had vision. I had gifting. But I didn’t have identity. And without identity, everything felt heavy, scattered, and out of rhythm. Then the shift came — not all at once, but layer by layer. I started trusting the small whisperings. I obeyed before I understood. I showed up even when I felt unqualified. I walked by faith and spoke anyway. And slowly, the fruit began to grow inside me first: My mind became clear. My voice returned. My confidence settled. My spirit aligned. My dreams awakened. My identity spoke louder than my history. That’s when the Get Realigned: Oil to Flow™ framework was born —not from theory, but from my transformation. Now I help women do what I had to learn the hard way: Stop building from fear. Start building from identity. Let God realign everything from the inside out. And when you do? Fruit follows. Peace follows. Clarity follows. Provision unfolds. Purpose awakens. Life gets realigned. ​ Not by striving —but by surrendering into who God says you are. ​