By Angela D. Thomas, DrPH, MPH, MBA You've got to get your situation into the right hands. Not the hands of every well-meaning person with an opinion, and not some borrowed strategy that was never the source. Your promise belongs cleaved to God Himself. Let me ask you a hard one before we go another sentence. When your situation is on the line, whose hands do you actually run to first? Because most of us say God, but our phone records tell on us. We text five friends, we drop

By Angela D. Thomas, DrPH, MPH, MBA When the promise dies, you take it back to the place God gave it and you refuse to call it dead. You surrender the situation to God while you keep speaking well over it. Surrender isn't giving up. It's putting the dead thing in the only hands that can raise it. So the Shunammite woman got her miracle. The son she was too scared to even hope for was born. And then one ordinary day, that boy grabbed his head, and by noon he was dead in her la

Being behind is not the same as being finished. David walked into the most uneven fight in the entire Bible carrying a slingshot and five smooth stones, and he won. Not because his weapons were impressive. Because he used what God had already been faithful to him in. That is still available to you right now. You look around and it feels like everyone else is further along. They have the platform, the following, the opportunity, the open doors. And you are still here, doing th

Because betrayal and disloyalty are not signs that you're doing something wrong. They are signs that you are walking in purpose. Jesus experienced both from His inner circle, and Scripture shows us exactly how He handled it and what that means for us. This one is personal for a lot of us. You're doing the work. You're showing up. You're trying to walk in what God called you to, and then someone close to you, someone you trusted, someone you invested in, hurts you. Betrays you