LIFE Ministries-Living In Faith Everyday

08/07/2026

☀️ Good morning! We made it!

💛 God woke us up and gave us another day. Let’s make it count!

🌻 This week’s blog, Today Is the Day, is a gentle reminder not to get so caught up preparing for tomorrow that we forget to embrace the gift God has already placed in our hands.

😊 I hope it leaves you smiling, encouraged, and inspired to make the most of every moment.

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🗓️ Please note: There will be no Faith Friday blog next Friday. New blogs will resume on Friday, August 21.

08/05/2026

08/02/2026

I’ve been sitting with this for a few days.

Proverbs 31:26 has always resonated with me. In fact, it’s one of my favorite verses from Proverbs 31. But over the past few days, four words settled in my heart differently:

”…the law of kindness.”

I’ve read this verse many times, but this time I couldn’t move past those words.

Kindness isn’t presented as a personality trait. It’s presented as a law—a governing principle.

Before words leave our mouths, they pass through the law of kindness.

It made me pause and ask myself:

• Is what I’m about to say true?
• Is it necessary?
• Is it beneficial?
• Is it kind?

Not weak.
Not passive.
Not people-pleasing.

Just governed.

As I continued studying, I looked up the Hebrew word translated “kindness” in Strong’s Concordance (H2617, hesed). The word carries the beautiful ideas of kindness, goodness, mercy, and lovingkindness.

What especially captured my heart was the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, which, in the context of Proverbs 31:26, describes it as “instruction in kindness” or “kindly instruction.”

That stopped me.

This verse isn’t simply saying she’s a kind person. It’s saying that even her instruction—her teaching, her counsel, and her correction—is governed by kindness.

Truth still speaks.
Wisdom still corrects.
Love still sets boundaries.

But when kindness governs our tongue, even difficult words can become instruments of grace instead of weapons.

Today, my prayer is simple:

Lord, let the law of kindness govern my tongue.

“She opens her mouth with wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness.” — Proverbs 31:26 (NKJV)🤍

07/31/2026

👑 Prepared for the Kingdom

Sometimes, God prepares us in ways we don’t immediately recognize.

Not every season is about arriving. Some seasons are about learning, growing, trusting, and allowing God to equip us for what’s ahead. Looking at Peter’s journey reminded me that Jesus doesn’t just call us—He walks with us, teaches us, and shapes us along the way.

This week’s message is a personal reminder that preparation is part of the process, and every step with Christ has purpose.

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Matthew 6:10 (NKJV)
“Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

07/24/2026

🍇✨ Sometimes we don’t realize God is weaving one message through multiple seasons until we pause and look back.

As I prepared my latest blog, I found myself revisiting recent writings:

▫️ Content in Christ
▫️ Identity in Christ
▫️ The Wealth of a Good Name
▫️ The Hidden Places (a personal reflection)
▫️ And now… Purged, Pruned & Prepared for Purpose.

Looking at them together, I realized they weren’t isolated messages. They were all pointing to the same truth.

God has been preparing us all along.

He teaches us contentment before He reveals more of our purpose. He establishes our identity before He expands our assignment. He develops our character before He opens new doors. He does His deepest work in the hidden places long before anyone else sees the fruit.

💻 Read the latest Faith Friday blog: Purged, Pruned & Prepared for Purpose.

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07/11/2026

🧠💚 Some of what we call “strength” is untreated pain with good attendance.

It goes to work.
Shows up for church.
Takes care of the children.
Pays the bills.
Serves everybody else.
Answers, “I’m good.”
And keeps moving.

So we applaud it.

We call them strong.
Resilient.
Dependable.
A prayer warrior.
The one everybody can count on.

But we rarely ask what it is costing them to keep functioning.

In many minority communities, we have mastered survival so well that suffering can hide in plain sight.

We know how to pray and keep pushing.
Work and keep producing.
Serve and keep smiling.
Carry trauma and call it toughness.

And sometimes, we have spiritualized silence.

We told people to pray about what also needed to be talked about.

We called boundaries disrespect.
Rest laziness.
Therapy weakness.
Medication a lack of faith.
Depression ungratefulness.
Anxiety worry that just needed more prayer.

Meanwhile, people were struggling in rooms full of people who loved them but did not know how to recognize the signs.

That has to change.

Faith and mental health care are not enemies.

Prayer and professional support can exist in the same life.

You can love God and need therapy.
You can be strong and need support.
You can be the one everybody depends on and still admit you are tired.

We should not wait until someone breaks down, disappears, self-destructs, or loses their life before we acknowledge that they were struggling.

This National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m not interested in simply raising awareness.

I want us to challenge what we have normalized.

Because surviving should not be the highest standard we set for our communities.

We deserve the opportunity to heal, too.