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Episode Title: Purpose In The Sifting
In this week's episode, Alicia leads us through a powerful reflection on Luke chapter 22 and the profound moment when Jesus warns Peter of the impending "sifting." We explore themes of identity, spiritual testing, and God's greater purpose, even in seasons of shaking. Alicia uncovers the deeper significance of the Upper Room, the difference between Simon and Peter, and how moments of challenge reveal our true faith.
Key references & resources:
- Luke 22: Jesus warns Peter—“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat… but I have prayed for you.”
- Genesis 1:28 on dominion and authority.
- Psalms 145:13, Ephesians 2:4, Romans 8:34, Hebrews 7:25—promises of God’s dominion and intercession.
- 1 Corinthians 10:12; Galatians 6:1-3—Paul on humility and supporting each other.
- Hebrews 11:6; 1 Peter 1:6-7—the value of faith refined by trials.
- Genesis 50:20—Joseph’s declaration: “You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.”
- Psalm 73:26—“But God is the strength of my heart…”
Are you feeling “sifted” in this season? Let this episode encourage you that every season of shaking is an invitation to deeper faith and surrender. Remember: But God.
If you’re interested in digging deeper, here are some recommended resources:
- Explore Bible passages about spiritual testing and restoration: Luke 22, John 21, Job, Ephesians, Hebrews.
- Devotional readings on identity in Christ and overcoming adversity.
- Classic worship songs for encouragement: “Way Maker,” “Refiner’s Fire,” “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)” (No songs featured in this episode, but these are listener-favorites for seasons of sifting!)
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Podcast Notes:
Welcome to the Spiritual Tea Podcast, where we create a supportive environment for thought-provoking conversations about encouragement, self-love, and the good news, all over a cup of tea. Join us in this episode, "God's Presence," as we embrace the Jubilee year of 2025, a time of spiritual renewal, rebirth, and growth. Alicia delves into the powerful message of God's presence, inspired by 2 Chronicles 20:15-17, and explores the story of King Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah, highlighting how their faith and trust in God brought miraculous victory.
In today's journey, discover how positioning ourselves in God's presence can help us face life's battles with confidence, knowing the battle belongs to the Lord. Let this inspiring narrative remind you of the power of faith partnership and the importance of worship and trust in times of adversity.
Resources and References:
- Scripture Reference: 2 Chronicles 20:15-17
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🍵 Dive into a comforting, thought-provoking conversation on the Spiritual Tea Podcast! Our latest episode, "God Is In Control," reminds you that you have worth and are not alone because God is in control. Discover the concept of the IKEA effect, where we assign more value to things we assemble ourselves. Join us in surrendering all aspects of life to God's will and finding trust in His promises of presence, protection, and purpose amidst uncertainty.
In this episode, Alicia shares personal challenges faced in 2023, declares 2024 as a new beginning, and references Isaiah 43:19. She encourages you to deepen your relationship with God or seek guidance by raising your hand. The episode is sponsored by AFG Ministry Inc., a nonprofit organization committed to addressing hunger and housing needs, empowering community-based organizations, and embracing servant leadership.We value and appreciate listeners like you, and we'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Visit our website or email us at hello@spiritualteapodcast.com. Your voice matters to us!Join us in declaring that God is in control and find reassurance in knowing that you have worth, value, and are a symbol of God's mercy, grace, and glory. Don't miss out on uplifting music selections, references, and resources shared in this episode to further nurture your spiritual journey.Remember, you are strong, courageous, and loved. Walk in confidence, knowing that God is with you in every circumstance. Thank you for being a part of our safe and encouraging space.
00:00 Personal growth and transformation in 2023-2024.
04:28 Spilling the tea about God's control. Join us.
09:54 God's promises of presence, protection, purpose.
11:29 Choosing to trust God in all situations.
15:29 God made a way through troubled waters.
20:34 Trusting God's control in every situation.
24:34 IKEA's self-assembly concept enhances product value.
25:47 Book symbolizes effort; brokenness is part of purpose.
32:02 Surrender trials and blessings, seek divine guidance.
33:44 Trust in God's love and victory. Amen.
36:57 Acknowledge God's control and feel reassured. Amen.
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Welcome to Spiritual Tea Podcast and A Faithful God Ministry. I am Pastor Alicia F Griffin, and in this episode, I will discuss a sensitive topic: Being offended because of Jesus. In Luke 7:23, Jesus tells us that those who are not offended by Him are blessed. So let's come together for a powerful message about standing up for our beliefs! Get your tea cups or mugs ready, and join me now as I spill all the tea! Cheers!
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?Who needs some uplifting today? Join Pastor Alicia F Griffin as she shares a powerful message about "Somebodiness" (Psalms 139:13-16) Martin Luther King, Jr spoke of somebodiness in his speech titled, “What’s Your Life Blueprint?” that he delivered to a group of high school students six months before his assassination.
?Who needs some uplifting today? Sharing some tea about the power of shadows! Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement, and love in God.
?Who needs some uplifting today? Sharing some tea about changing our viewpoint! Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement, and love in God.
?Who needs some uplifting today? Sharing some tea about defeating that mighty mountain of rumble!
?Who needs some uplifting today? Sharing some tea about how "Somebodiness"! "Number one in your life’s blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth, and your own somebodiness. Don’t allow anybody to make you feel that you’re nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
?Who needs some uplifting today? Join Pastor Alicia F Griffin while she spills some tea about how God Is For Us!
Romans 8:31 (NIV), “What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?”
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Question: How do you trust God in a time such as this? How do you trust God in a pandemic? Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement, and love in God.
Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement, and love in God.
Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement, and love in God.
A simple invite to have interfaith dialogue about diversity, equity, and inclusion in churches. A simple invite can have radical effects. It changes us and that’s what I want to do during our time together. So I personally invite you to have interfaith dialogue with me.
Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement and love in God.
Join us for a re-run of AFG Manifesto Podcast - Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion In Churches. Part 1
Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement and love in God.
Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement and love in God.
Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement and love in God.
Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement and love in God.
Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement and love in God.
Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement and love in God.
Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement, and love in God.
Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement and love in God.
Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement and love in God.
Join Pastor Alicia F. Griffin, A Faithful God Ministry, as she shares the Good News of hope, encouragement and love in God.
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A prayer over your day. Meet us wherever we are in our lives today Dear Heavenly Father. Amen- Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
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A prayer over your day. Miraculous Blessings Today Amen- Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
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1 Timothy 4:12 - Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.
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God has a solution already to every problem in our lives, and we will receive that miraculous blessing. Understand, miracles always begin with problems.
A prayer over your day. HE WILL...Amen- Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
A prayer over your day. He will move us today. Amen- Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
A prayer over your day. He is the light in our darkest areas. Amen- Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
Learn to embrace God's purpose for your pain. "Jesus is opening blind eyes. Jesus is opening closed doors, closed windows. Jesus is opening our finances." - Pastor Alicia F. Griffin
A prayer over your day. God will provide today. Amen- Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
A prayer over your day. We will experience Him in new way; new blessings. Amen- Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
A prayer over your day. #Good Friday, the day of salvation, forgiveness and peace. Amen- Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
A prayer over your day. He will provide today. Amen- Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
04/08/20 Daily Prayer - A prayer over your day. We will receive His peace today. Amen- Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
A prayer over your day. He will restore and renew us today. Amen- Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
04/02/20 Daily Prayer - A prayer over your day. Expect movement today. Amen- Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
A prayer that was written for the Ephesians in 3:14-21 explains God’s love for YOU. His love is total, meaning complete and absolute. His love is wide, meaning covering us. His love is long, meaning extending and high. His love is deep, meaning it can reach the depths of discouragement, fear, doubt and despair. His love is immeasurable, meaning too extensive to measure and inexhaustible, meaning there is no way for us to use up all his love because his love has existing abundance. Today, I want to reassure you of God’s inexhaustible love for you.
A prayer over your day. He will cover us today. Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
03/31/20 Daily Prayer - A #prayer over your day. We will receive miraculous blessings today. Pastor Alicia F. Griffin - A Faithful God Ministry at Vallejo First Church
Join Pastor David Hartfield-Dyels at Vallejo First Church as he journeys through Ruth 2:1-16.
“Under the shadows and the wings of God there’s intentional blessings.” - Pastor David Hartfield-Dyels
🌞Good Morning! A quick #prayer over your day today. God’s love will prevail in our lives today! 🙏🏽
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Join Pastor David Hartfield-Dyels at Vallejo First Church as he journeys through Ruth 1:6-17.
Join Pastor Alicia Griffin as she explains the difference between character vs. compromise.
“God already knew what’s in our hearts. He allows us to go through spiritual compliance testing, so we can see what is really on the inside; He wants us to see our heart condition. He wants to conduct a spiritual audit to see if we have mandatory spiritual requirements or standards. Basically, he audits our heart, our character, our faith, our intentions. During our spiritual compliance testing, the tests and trials, don’t make a character but reveals it. At those particular times in our lives is when we are at a crossroads, standing in between the road of character or compromise. Are we going to go down the road that is inside us, part of our character development? Or are we going to compromise our character and go down the compromise road?”
A very monumental honor to guest speak at Vallejo First Church of Nazarene. Thank you Pastor David Hartfield-Dyels!
Worry is like a Pandora’s box. It generates many complicated problems. Learn how to eliminate the recurring spiritual debt "worry" using the same financial debt snowball method. Now let's put this in our spiritual wide lens.
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Football players are provided specific pieces of equipment to protect them, just as we are provided specific pieces of equipment to help protect us; this is our suit of armor. See we need to be suited not for a game, but spiritual war.
Paul writes about preparing for spiritual battle against all forms of evil with the enemy as the originator. The enemy assaults us with our heart and soul possessions as well as attempts to ruin God’s image and presence in our spiritual nature. The Bible says that spiritual strength and courage are needed for our spiritual battles and our spiritual armor will be required in every single battle. Our spiritual armor is mandatory in every single battle.
A study was conducted last year that showed only 8 percent of people actually achieve their New Year’s resolution goals, while approximately 80% fail to keep their New Year’s resolutions. The reason being is due to reverting back to what we are familiar or comfortable with.
Have you heard the biblical term backsliding? Backsliding means to go backward spiritually or falling away. Backsliding is when a person regresses back to their old habits; habits that turn away from God to chase their own desires.
What is the cause of backsliding? Desires; the meaning of desire is to wish for or want something stronger. I’ve previously stated, desire and wish are the opposite of faith. Desire and wish can be accompanied by hurt and pain. Backsliding hurts, it hurts internally (our inner-being) and externally (others).
Sacrifice is extremely important and often overlooked. When you hear the word sacrifice, we become disconnected because we associate money or material items. However, sacrifice isn’t about offering material items, it is freely and completely offering or letting go with a purpose and a pure heart. Sacrifice has to be:
Freely given,
Completely given,
and, Given at no cost
Must watch "LIVE" message at the Solano Nomadic Shelter about "Discouragement" I had the honor and privilege to provide spiritual and physical nourishment and to encourage beautiful people at the Solano Nomadic Shelter this past week. A truly humbling and faith-giving experience. #missiodei
Remember whenever you feel discouraged, unloved, unimportant, remember who you belong to. You belong to a God that will restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you in that order. Peter told us,” After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, will restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you.” We are a child of God, we are an heir of the kingdom, we have been made perfect in God. Reject discouragement for what it is, a desperate attempt from a false messenger to steal from us, our peace and faith in God.
Must watch "LIVE" message at the Solano Nomadic Shelter about "PROVISIONS" I had the honor and privilege to provide spiritual and physical nourishment and to encourage beautiful people at the Solano Nomadic Shelter this past week. A truly humbling and faith-giving experience. #missiodei
ALL THE WAY "LIVE", Solano Nomadic Shelter: Resilience Must watch "LIVE" message at the Solano Nomadic Shelter about "RESILIENCE" I had the honor and privilege to deliver God's truth and to encourage beautiful people at the Solano Nomadic Shelter this past week. A truly humbling and faith-giving experience. #ambassadorofmygod
re·sil·ience /rəˈzilyəns/: The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. The Truth says, "I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” - John 16:33
On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, special co-host, Gazmine (instagram: @gazzyboo), joins us to talk about how the beauty content creator industry is temporarily gracefully broken, as well as, family fun talk…All over a cup of ice tea.
Question of the day: What is trap music? #trap
MUST LISTEN--- On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, our co-host Gemi is back. This week we switched up the format to Freestyle Frenzy. The topic for Freestyle Frenzy is financials for the millenniums with our special guest, "The Hubby", as well as, special announcements…All over a cup of ice tea. Recommended read: I will teach you to be rich, the second edition by Ramit Sethi
Do you believe that our thoughts are powerful? Do you believe that we have total control over all our thoughts? Today, I am going to talk about the process of transformative transfer of our thoughts. Our thoughts are the largest battlefield. Some of us wake up in a battle and end our day in the same fight.
On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, our co-host Gemi is back. This week we switched up the format to Freestyle Frenzy. The topic for Freestyle Frenzy is technology culture with our special guest, as well as, special announcements…All over a cup of ice tea.
MUST LISTEN---E011 Spiritual Burden Rate: On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, Content Creator, Gazmine Griffin, is my special co-host. We chat the beauty influencer industry struggle. The struggles are real, as well as understanding the spiritual burden rate.
MUST LISTEN---E010 Spiritual Regression: On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, we chat about the Game of Thrones before the final and last episode as well as understanding spiritual regression. All over a cup of tea!
On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, we have a special guest host, my daughter, and content creator, Gazmine. We chat about Kanye's Easter Sunday Service at Coachella 2019 as well as understanding our spiritual dashboard. Hear live snippets of Chance The Rapper and DMX from Kanye's Easter Service. All over a cup of tea!
On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, we have a special guest host, my daughter, and content creator, Gazmine. We chat Gazmine's vision and focus as a content creator, as well as Beyonce's Netflix documentary, Homecoming. In addition to, special announcements and of course, understanding our spiritual write-offs.
MUST LISTEN---E007 Spiritual Acid Test: On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, we chat about Kanye's Sunday Service with a snippet of DMX's prayer and Nipsey Hussle, as well as special announcements and of course, understanding our spiritual acid test.
On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, we chat about Jesus popularity as a television star, "Is Jesus becoming more popular than the church?", as well as special announcements and of course, understanding our spiritual working capital.
On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, we chat about the newly released horror movie US directed by Jordan Peele relation to Jeremiah 11:11 and follow-up to Mark Russell's "The Second Coming" comic book series about Jesus as well as a special shoutout to Charles Million Elevate & Evolving Consciousness event in London. All over a cup of tea!
On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, we chat Black Panther star Letitia Wright boldly declaring that she is first and foremost a “child of God”, in an acceptance speech at the British Academy Film Awards. We also chat about the spiritual deferred revenue, hope. All over a cup of tea!
On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, we chat about New Englands Owner, Robert Kraft, as well as DC Comics cancel of "The Second Coming" series. We also chat about the spiritual debt snowball method. All over a cup of tea.
On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, we chat about Louisiana Grocery store who took religion and immigration to their weekly grocery ads. We also chat about our spiritual investment. All over a cup of tea!
On this week's Spiritual Tea Podcast, we chat about NFL Patriots Quarterback, Tom Brady's ritual. Is it witchcraft or a form of spirituality? We also chat about our spiritual fiscal year. All over a cup of tea!