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7-Day Praise Challenge For Life Praise — Our Weapon Against the Enemy As saints of the Most High God, it's almost an insult that we only give Him praise when we come together in fellowship. Sundays and Bible class — we're faithful. But the days in between, we act powerless the moment situations and circumstances hit. Too many of us in the Body of Christ are still babes in Christ — bowing to the enemy's plots and folding under trials instead of standing on the Word. We bury

The Cost of Giving "Not every disciple is disciplined." I have supported the visions of others without hesitation. I've shared their work, celebrated their wins, shown up for what God is doing through them — writers, ministries, businesses, whatever the assignment — because I believe in pouring into people. That's not a debt I'm keeping score of. That's just who I am. But I'd be lying if I said it doesn't sting when the support doesn't flow both ways. Some who I've pour

"You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good." — 2 Timothy 3:1-5 (NLT) Gratitude is not a mood. It is a discipline of t

He Delivers Out of ALL of Them Psalm 34:19 (KJV) — “Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.” Notice the verse doesn’t say the righteous are exempt from affliction it says they’re many. Trouble doesn’t skip you because you’re walking right with God. But it does tell you something greater: none of it not one affliction is bigger than His deliverance. Not the one you’re in right now. Not the one still ahead. All of them. I have

Fight Like a Fanatic To the mother raising that child alone — I see you. Not the version of you that has it together on Sunday morning, but the version at 11 p.m. wondering if you're failing them, wondering if you have anything left to give after giving all day. I met a mother a few months ago walking through exactly this. And she is not alone in it — there are more like her in every church, every neighborhood, sitting quietly under a weight nobody else can see. Fear will tel

The Mud Made an Army of Ministers Out of Mississippi Before I share this, I have to acknowledge Apostle Martha Shoulders, who I began with. There was a season when it was just her, me, and a few others — small, hidden, unnoticed by anyone watching. What God is revealing now didn't start with me. It started in that small room, with her training us long before there was a crowd to see it. I witnessed her praying to God for years that her desire was for her children to return t

Take the Plank Out First Hypocrisy is running rampant. People are quick to point out what to condemn — while doing the very thing they're condemning. Some cry out against injustice while walking in the same sin they're pointing at. Some cry out against violence done to their community, while excusing the violence happening within it. That's not conviction. That's a plank we've refused to look at. Call the truth the truth, and a lie a lie. 📖 Matthew 7:2-5

THE PRAYING CEO A Prayer Journal for the Faith-Driven Woman Whose Business Is Her Ministry by Linda McKinzie This is one chapter from The Praying CEO: A Prayer Journal for the Faith-Driven Woman Whose Business Is Her Ministry. If you've ever watched someone else build what you once dreamed about — this one's for you. CHAPTER 3 The Ideas I Let Someone Else Live Matthew 25:25 (NKJV) “And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is

Cover Them Before It's Too Late Proverbs 22:6 (KJV) Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. This isn't something that happens only in this generation's youth — it happened in the generations before them too. When we're young, we often make unwise and foolish decisions. Most of the time, we had a praying mother or grandmother standing in the gap, and God preserved us from the very mistakes we made out of ignorance. But some don

Called to Write, Called to the Church 2 Peter 1:10-11 (GNT) [10] So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Do these things, and you will never fall away. [11] Then God will give you a grand entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. For years, I didn't know — without a shadow of a doubt — what I was called to do. But I could sense it wasn't mediocre. I didn't know what it was, but I

We Judge the Man, But Never Name the Spirit I woke up one morning with this weighing on me, and I have to talk to you specifically because I believe many of us are doing this without even realizing it. Every time we watch the news, we do the same thing. Someone commits a crime, an act of violence, even murder and we look at the person. We form our opinion, we judge, we write them off. We call them evil, monster, criminal. And we move on to the next headline. But we never sto

The Testimony I'm 61 years old, born and raised in Mississippi. In six decades of living here, I have never once been attacked or threatened by a white person. That's my real, lived experience. Not a talking point. Not a narrative I inherited. What actually happened to me. The rudest people I've encountered weren't white Mississippians at all — they were foreigners who'd recently moved here, and even most of them have been kind. And yet, watching the media right now, you'd th

Let them say what they want. Let them pull up their rankings and their poverty statistics and their lists of everything Mississippi supposedly isn't. Let them mock the accent, the small towns, the dirt roads. We will wait. Because while they are talking, Mississippi has been producing. And it has been producing for a long time. This book was not written to win an argument. It was written because God told me to — because the phrase Mississippi Mud dropped into my spirit and wo

The Testimony I said it before and I'll say it again: this isn't just a modern inconvenience. It's targeted. But the deeper I sat with it, the more I saw it's not only about reading — it's about roots. And roots are the one thing shortcuts can never grow. Jesus told a parable about a sower who scattered seed on different kinds of ground. Some fell on stony places, where there wasn't much soil. It sprang up quickly — faster than the rest, actually — because the soil had no dep

After my first book was published, God told me to revise it. When I first wrote The Powerless Church As We Know It, I had a fire in my spirit and a clear directive from Heaven. But somewhere between the manuscript and the final print, I compromised. Well-meaning voices advised me to soften certain truths, to remove content that might offend, to make the message more palatable. There was more God wanted me to write — and I missed the mark, because I compromised. I had made a v

A House Divided: Exposing the Enemy's Strategy in the Racial Divide To all the self-proclaimed social media civil rights detectives — the ones too impatient to wait for the facts before rendering a verdict — I need you to hear this: your impatience is being used. What if, when the full truth is revealed, there was no foul play, and the young man simply drowned? Would you repent? Or would you find a way to question that too? Many of you will. Because what's happening right now

A TENDER HEART IS NOT A SAFE HEART: Guarding a Sensitive, Obedient Heart Against Pride "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." — Proverbs 4:23 "Lest I should be exalted above measure... there was given to me a thorn in the flesh." — 2 Corinthians 12:7 A tender heart is sensitive to the Spirit, quick to obey, and eager to carry a word faithfully. However, it is not exempt from pride. In fact, this very sensitivity that makes a heart usable c

Close the Door and Seek the Kingdom On Obedience, Impatience, and Trusting God with the Plan When God tells you to close a door — close it. Speedily, without delay, and without doubt. That sounds simple. But anyone who has been in that moment knows it is anything but. Because closing the door God is pointing to often means walking away from something that looks good, feels comfortable, or has already cost you something to build. And yet the longer we delay obedience, the mo

The Testimony Technology's rapid advance has made mankind lazy, and I don't say that as an outsider looking in — I've felt it in myself. I've lost the heart for reading and studying that I used to carry so naturally. We want a quick fix for everything now: a summary instead of the study, a clip instead of the sermon, a devotional app instead of the discipline. I love to read. I always have. I've read books like my life depended on it, and I've sat through sermons that lasted

WE NEED HEALING BEFORE MINISTRY, HEALING BEFORE INTERCESSION. WE MUST EMPTY OUT THE UGLINESS, OFFENSES, UNFORGIVENESS, REJECTION, AND BETRAYALS. My Pastor Sabrennia Fountain, taught it plainly: purifying the heart is necessary — just like bathing daily, or more. No one drinks from a dirty cup. You rinse it, you wash it, you make sure nothing from yesterday's use is still clinging to the inside before you pour something fresh into it. The heart works the same way. God is not l