DAY 4 | This Season Is Uncomfortable…And It’s Not Changing (Let God and Transform)

Have you ever found yourself in a season that feels uncomfortable… stretched… even frustrating—and no matter how much you pray about it, it hasn’t changed?

You ask God to fix it. You asked Him to remove it. You asked Him to shift it. And yet… it is still there.

And if we’re honest, that can be confusing. 

Because we know God has the power to change things. “Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:” Jeremiah 32:17 KJV.

We know God hears us. “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:” 1 John 5:14 KJV.

We know God cares. “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 KJV.

So when the situation remains, we start questioning—what is happening or not happening here, God?

And this, Family, is where surrender becomes deeper. This is what we have been talking about all week, this Holy Week, Let Go and Transform.

But we have to understand, Family, that surrender is not just letting go of control…It’s letting go of the expectation that everything uncomfortable must be removed.

Hebrews 12:11 (KJV) says, “Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”

No one has to tell us that what we are feeling right now—the discomfort, the pressure, the stretching—is not pleasant. The saying only who feels it knows it carries some weight here.

But in this season, we have to come to grips with the fact that it can and must be productive. It is doing something in us. 

And this is where we have to shift our perspective. Because not every hard season is meant to break us… Some are meant to build us. Oh, glory to God. And many of us would wish we knew that when we were going through those rough and tumble times, not so?

And if we’re honest, our instinct is still the same—we want relief, not process.

We live in a time where we want quick relief. If something feels hard, we want it gone. If something feels uncomfortable, we want it fixed.

But guess what? Growth does not come from comfort. And Scripture makes that clear.

2 Timothy 2:3 (KJV) says, “Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”

Endure—not escape. There are seasons where God is not removing the difficulty but is strengthening us within it. 

And this is where many of us struggle. Because we are praying for change…But God may be working on transformation. And those are not the same.

Change removes the situation. Transformation develops us within it.

We see this pattern throughout Scripture. Joseph was not immediately removed from the pit… or the prison. David was anointed king… but still went through years of process before the throne.

And in both cases, the delay was not denial. It was development.

And that speaks to us. Because sometimes we interpret a difficult season as something being wrong when in reality, something is being formed: Patience. Endurance. Trust.

These things, Family, don’t grow when everything is easy. They grow when we have to rely on God in the middle of something we would rather not be in.

And this is where we have to be honest with ourselves. Are we resisting the very thing God is using to grow us?

Because discomfort will always make us want to escape. But surrender says, “God, if You are in this… then I trust what You are doing through it.”

That doesn’t mean we stop praying. It means we shift how we pray. Not just, “God, take this away…” But, “God, strengthen me in this.”

And that changes everything. Because now we are no longer just waiting for the situation to change, we are allowing God to work in us while we are in it.

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (Philippians 2:13 KJV).

This is also where spiritual growth begins to take place, because the Word says, “Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.” (James 1:3 KJV).

That’s where endurance is built. “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” (Matthew 24:13 KJV).

And that’s where faith becomes real—not just something we say, but something we live. “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” (Hebrews 10:38 KJV).

So, Family, if we find ourselves in a difficult season today… one that hasn’t shifted, hasn’t moved, hasn’t changed, we can pause and ask:

“Is this something God wants to remove… or something He wants to use?”

Because not everything uncomfortable is meant to be removed—some things are working something in us… because the Word says, ‘our light affliction… worketh for us’ (2 Corinthians 4:17 KJV).

So what are we going to do? Stop resisting the process… and start trusting God within it…

Let us agree here: Because we will come out stronger, deeper, and more grounded than we were before.

And that, Family, is something we could never gain from comfort alone. 

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