Faithful Writers

Grace doesn’t excuse sin—it empowers victory. Freedom begins when we stop running from God and start walking with Him daily, allowing His Spirit to renew our minds and reshape our desires.

Maybe the mirror isn’t your enemy. Maybe it’s been waiting for you to see what God’s been saying all along: you were never meant to chase perfection—you were meant to remember you are already wonderfully made.

Faith doesn’t erase brokenness; it meets us in it. This piece is for anyone who still feels the ache even after saying yes to God — a reminder that being unfinished doesn’t mean being unloved.

Some battles you’re fighting weren’t yours to begin with. They were handed down. Learn how to identify generational sin patterns and close the doors the enemy has used for generations.

Overthinking isn’t just exhausting — it can slowly become a kind of worship. Here’s how surrendering your anxiety through prayer turns worry into peace.

On my very first mission trip, I thought I was too inexperienced to be a target. I was wrong. What unfolded that night became a lesson I’ll never forget about spiritual warfare and God’s power

In the midst of darkness, God calls us to stand firm, put on His armor, and live boldly in faith. Now is the time to rise as steadfast warriors in Christ.

The Spirit of God isn’t a dusty doctrine we fight over. The Holy Spirit is a living, pulsing reality. The Spirit flips that script. It’s not about me living like Jesus is beside me; it’s about Christ living His life through me by the Spirit within.

Ever been told that if you truly had God, you’d automatically believe or understand? That’s not how it works. Testing the Spirit is part of God’s plan for discernment and spiritual growth.

I taught, led, created, and hustled — all under the guise of calling. But when war in Sudan halted every plan, I realized I had built my faith on momentum, not intimacy. This is how the quiet came back, and how rest became a gift, not a goal.

The textbook asserts they were only talking about the Old Testament, except 2 Peter 1:21 & Acts 2:38–39 show differently.

It’s what makes us morally responsible before God. He gave us a will so that love and obedience could be genuine, not robotic. God doesn’t force obedience — He invites it. The will is where we answer that invitation.

The encouragement for today is that having great faith does not exempt us from making mistakes. Such errors originate from either attempting to help God do what He alone promises, our to add our own desires to the limits of what actually commanded us to do.

However, there is a qualitative difference in those born of the Holy Spirit and those who pretend to believe and have not received the special anointing mentioned by John. Jesus told his disciples that one of the benefits of receiving the Holy Spirit is that He would teach them and remind them of everything Jesus had taught them.

This isn’t the kind of life you can fake with a forced smile or spiritual performance. This is the kind of life that seeps out of your pores, even when you’re tired, even when you’re flawed, even when you’re unsure.

When the Disciples couldn’t cast out the demon, Mark 9:14–32, Jesus demonstrated that the way life is lived between prayer sessions is much more important than the eloquence of the prayers spoken — after all, He knows what you’re about to say before you do.

Wow! Why did I think the response would be a prequel to “The Terminator”? I looked for a drone circling overhead. But the sky was clear. And none of my bank accounts were frozen. No sixes appeared on my right hand or forehead.

That’s the tricky part, right? Because the Spirit doesn’t always show up the way we expect. We want a booming voice, a divine sign, maybe something with flashing lights and a deep Morgan Freeman-esque narration. But more often than not, the Spirit’s help looks like:

The Bible doesn’t serve to answer every question or fill in the blanks. That job belongs to the Holy Spirit. The purpose of Scripture is to lead us to God. Once we find God, the Holy Spirit is given to continue our training and learning in tandem with the Scriptures.

The church has lost its fire, and adrift with new leaders taking control that are not inspired by God. This causes the flock of believers to get further into the clutches of Satan and his parasites.

Unchecked anger is a doorway for spiritual attack, and this includes fear that leads to anger and resentment. I know this on a personal level, and I’ve seen the damage such an attack can produce. Even this very morning I was in conversation with a family member and in the discussion, I started thinking about the various trials and difficulties I had to overcome as a son of a sharecropper from the American South.

The promise of good spirituality is contingent upon the believer being born of the Holy Spirit. It’s an essential step, or you leave yourself wide open to spiritual attacks of all types and will be powerless to defeat them.