Sometimes people don’t treat you poorly because they don’t know better. Sometimes the behavior continues because nothing has required them to do differently. You have to teach people how to treat you—not by controlling them, arguing with them, threatening them, or constantly explaining yourself, but by communicating what is hurting the relationship and allowing their response to show you what happens next. If something hurts you, say it. If something feels disrespectful, addr

Some of us are praying against voices that aren’t coming from other people anymore—they’re coming from within. Somewhere along the way, somebody’s opinion, rejection, criticism, mistreatment, abandonment, or disappointment became part of the way you describe yourself. I’m not good enough. Nobody really wants me. I’m always the problem. Nothing ever works out for me. I’m too old. I’m too damaged. I’ll probably mess this up too. Maybe love just isn’t for me. But wait a minute…

HOW YOU TREAT PEOPLE IS TIED TO YOUR SPIRITUALITY… Think about it. You can pray every morning, quote Scripture all day, attend every service, fast until your stomach growls, and shout until your shoes come off—but eventually, your spirituality has to show up in how you treat people. Because spirituality isn’t only demonstrated in how you communicate with God. It is also revealed in how you handle the people God created. “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if

TODAY’S DECLARATION I Declare Safe Spaces Over My Life Today, I declare that I will no longer confuse familiarity with safety. I welcome spaces where I do not have to constantly guard my heart, measure every word, question every intention, or wonder whether what I share will someday be used against me. I declare that God is sharpening my discernment to recognize the difference between being welcomed and merely being tolerated, being loved and merely being accessed, being prot

TODAY’S DECLARATION Though It Tarry, I Will Wait “For the vision is yet for an appointed time… though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” — Habakkuk 2:3 (KJV) Today, I declare that I will not abandon what God showed me simply because I haven’t seen it happen yet. I will not allow waiting to make me question what God said. I understand that an appointed time means there is a time already known by God—even when it is unknown to me. I declare