Don't use equipment, anointing, strategies to fight a battle in ratchet faith that God didn't give you! Take inventory of the tools/weapons that you have won faith battles with before. Use those. Sometimes, in the heat of battle, when faced with a challenge or crisis we can forget about the tools in our toolbox. The tools God gave us.  The tools at our disposal that we have mastered or have experienced victories with. Tools like exercising our ratchet faith,  praying without

But will you beg desperately to God for _____________ (healing,  restoration,  freedom,  or all of the above plus more)? We don't have to beg because God hears every prayer. And I believe God answers every last one.  The issue is when desperation is in our hearts and we try to hide it.  Trying to hide despair with our cute outfits and beat face.  Trying to mask despair in front of God. One hand raised when we wish we had the guts to lay prostrate right there in the pew with s

Matthew 9:2 does not tell us that these brothers carried their friend (and his burdens) and asked Jesus for anything. They just showed up! Sometimes "just" showing up is the gateway to our healing, breakthrough, or deliverance. Show up in front of Jesus right now and see what happens. Show up at the altar today. Show up in prayer today. Show up in the disagreement with your spouse today. Show up as a parent today. Show up and confront that outstanding bill today. Just s

NOVEMBER 28  | Grateful for healthy sex. I have survived sexual violence more than once, and I have experienced some unhealthy sexual experiences that were consensual but today I am so thankful to experience healthy sex with my husband Ché. Gratitude doesn't even cover how I feel about doing life with a brother that is intentional about co-creating a sexual space for us that is safe, enjoyable, and healthy. Photo Credit: Keith Claytor http://www.timefrozen.com I recognize tha

Lord God Almighty. We are not living the life you promised. Help us to fully accept YOUR abundant life. We've been existing. Waiting for the next opportunity to relish in everything temporary. Lord you have a blueprint. For each of us. Please reveal to us in YOUR WORD the strategy, resources, and the empowerment so that we can abandon our way so that we can bind up our way so that we can trash our way so that we can surrender our way Because YOUR WAY is peace is abundant is e

Our Father YOU ARE IN HEAVEN but you strategically spend your time with us LORD GOD ALMIGHTY WE ARE DESPERATE for something real for something different for something secure for something that helps us to stand strong and that something can only be found in YOU God please cleanse us of all unrighteousness Lift our heads above the issues and ourselves Fill us with YOUR power presence love purity wisdom discernment anointing and heal us deliver us free us equip us encourage u

#TheDarkRoom is a collaborative with blog series purposegirlpower.com that highlights the lives of people who are answering God's call to minister. My husband and I, like most people, wanted to be financially stable. Before we got married, we set our minds on a course to achieve that goal. During the early years of our marriage, we had been a part of many businesses, which gave little to no returns on our investment. We didn’t give up hope. We decided to get into real-estat

I'm not even sure how to start this piece because it is about my wake up call. I got a call about 3 weeks ago and the voice on the other end was not of man but God - Himself. I speak to God regularly with the expectation that He will speak back, so I try to listen during prayer. I try to study God's word and spend some time waiting, because I want to hear God. But what He said about 3 weeks ago rocked my whole world. He wrecked my entire life and I'm better for it! I thought

I'm telling you - I really do have fun and I can laugh, I sing, I play around with my family, I love to crack jokes with my brother and sister. But right now, in this season God keeps holding up this mirror up and my face happens to be in the reflection. In this season, this entire year (2017) God keeps giving me rocks to break my own windows! I am being shown sins that I never thought I committed. God is showing me demons that have been holding me, my gifts, and destiny host

One thing I love about Yahweh is I know He can handle it! He can handle me! All of my crap, fears, doubts, worries, and challenges! And every time I scrape myself up from desperation, frustration and/or idolatry I sense that Yahweh is standing with the widest open arms with this look of complete love as He says "Welcome Home Daughter." When I come to Yahweh with my junk He gives me the space to unpack. Sad part is our stuff is not always neatly packed. Sometimes our stuff is

I've been busy these past several weeks - but I want to share that sometimes we are kept quiet for a season. At the beginning of 2017, God revealed to me that this would be a quiet year. No speaking engagements or significant movement outside of the ministry responsibilities He would lead me to at church. 2017 has been a quiet year. I had so many goals for Salt, Life, and Love overall; the blog especially after our family transitioned to a private Christian school for the kid

This is about the moment when you really want to give in to doubt but you push a little further, you cry a little louder, you seek God a lit

Ché is hanging up the meat game & idleness and I am hanging up fear and doubt!  Our lives depend on it! Our soul salvation depends on it! Our children do not know but they need us to fast in this season too! We confess that some things ONLY come by fasting & prayer (Matthew17:21). Follow us on this journey as we follow Christ. Isaiah 58 teaches us that fasting is more than abstinence. Fasting is an act of resistance. Fasting is rebellion against injustice, poverty, misuse, ab

Afraid, broken, confused, silenced, triggered, angry, and hopeless, but we look good though. We are a people who at times paint the smile, color our hair, and add rouge to our cheeks all in the name of showing up & pretending to be well. Pretending to be better than we are. Selfies that look like we hired a professional photographer in the wee hours of the morning. Concealer concealing 98% of our wounds. We wear the mask so long that we have trouble differentiating what is r

Fasting Menu: No Fried Food No Self-Control No TV No Giving No Chips No Patience No Bread No Gentleness No Freedom No Cheese No Holy Spirit No Kindness toward our staff No Candy No Faithfulness No Dessert No Supporting the homeless No Social Media No Meat No Jesus No Fish No Forgiveness No Dairy No God No Love No Reverence No Praise No Peace I will only talk about fasting based on my own experience as I am not a theologian. Fasting is a practice of abstaining traditionally f

I don't know about you but I am not always comfortable with giving absolutes. The moments this discomfort is most pronounced is when my children ask me for something (a new toy, money for new things, or some sort of plan regarding an activity). It's hard for me to give absolutes and makes me wonder where that resistance and discomfort came from. Part of my discomfort with giving my children absolutes is because I do not like telling them "No" unless of course it is to discip

I always wanted a perfect score. As a child, teen, and young adult while in school at various academic levels and as an adult slam poet I never achieved perfect scores. Running a race and never winning the gold has been my history and I can't say at 39 years old that I'll ever run a race (physically, artistically, or academically) and be the top of the class or the winner overall. Sure finishing a race or challenge is important but no one shows up to a race, challenge, or pr

If the water is troubled more than likely we want nothing to do with it. But what if we are the trouble? Or what if God is looking for us to recognize the trouble and give it to Him simultaneously? What if The Lord is sending you an invitation right now to go into the deep troubled waters? Are you willing to go? I believe all of these probing questions are true and/or relevant. We are the troubled water. God is looking for us to recognize the trouble and give it to Him. The L

I have spoken with many people that want to learn how to better support a friend after their friend discloses being sexually assaulted. The truth is that the best support for our friends is to be available and accessible. When we are available & accessible our friends may begin to share further details as to how you can support them. Follow their lead. After our loved ones have been sexual assaulted, he or she may have varying responses. There is no exact approach to supporti

It's not that I thought we couldn't handle death as the final destination for our union. It's not that I was dreading the idea of waking up to the same person over the last 2555 days. It's that I have never spent this much time with any romantic partner until now. It's that I have never said I love you to the same man this many times. Until now. On December 31, 2016 we will celebrate our union as husband and wife! It will have been 7 years since we looked at each other and sa