Healing, Faith, and Spiritual Authority
What happens when healing doesn’t fit into a neat formula, and faith is tested in the waiting?
In this episode of Honest Christian Conversations, I sit down once again with returning guest David Chotka, pastor, author, and leader of Spirit Equipped Ministries, to explore healing, deliverance, and spiritual warfare through a deeply biblical, well-grounded lens.
Together, we discuss the realities believers often struggle to name aloud: suffering that endures, prayers that feel unanswered, and the tension between trusting God’s power and walking through hardship. Dr. Chotka shares insights from Scripture and ministry experience that challenge simplistic views of healing and invite a more mature, holistic understanding of God’s work in our lives.
This conversation isn’t about hype or formulas. It’s about discernment, endurance, and learning to hold faith steady—even when healing looks different than we expect.
Throughout the episode, we wrestle with questions many believers quietly carry:
• What does biblical healing really look like?
• How do faith, suffering, and spiritual warfare coexist?
• How do we walk in spiritual authority without fear or imbalance?
This episode invites listeners to slow down, return to Scripture, and reflect on God’s faithfulness in both miraculous moments and long seasons of growth—anchored not in experience alone, but in truth and trust in Christ.
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Ana is the host of the Honest Christian Conversations podcast and a prodigal saved by God’s unending grace.
She grew up in a legalistic Christian home where asking questions often felt wrong. In her early twenties, overwhelmed by confusion and hurt, she walked away from her faith. Yet even then, God’s love never stopped pursuing her. At thirty years old—and after a painful second divorce—He brought her back to himself, and she has never looked back.
As Ana returned to Christ, she began rebuilding her faith from the ground up and asked the questions she once feared to ask. Along that journey, she discovered inconsistencies, misplaced teachings, and even lies woven into the Christianity she grew up with. Instead of destroying her faith, this only deepened it. Out of that discovery, she founded Honest Christian Conversations. Ana's heart is to help others navigate the same tension she once lived with: wanting to know the real Jesus while sorting through the noise of deceptive teachings, spiritual manipulation, and “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
Everything she creates flows from gratitude for the God who rescued her, restored her, and continues to shape her into who He intended her to be.
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