As we enter the month of Thanksgiving, I have been reflecting on moments where I've stood in awe of the doors the Lord has opened for our team, allowing us to engage in ministry across diverse spheres of influence. I am reminded of the time I was invited to Google Headquarters to teach about spiritual intelligence. I feel prompted to share this blog post originally written on October 23, 2020. This blog not only explores my encounter at Google but also delves into the profound reality of our identity as sons and daughters of God.

Do you know what it means to think like God, to have the mind of Christ? I’m sure many of you can answer that question with sound biblical theology. Still, that’s my concern— that Believers spout on about profound truth but they never actually experience it! Their theology ends where it began — with “the right answer.” I don’t think I need to point out to you that faith is not a summation of noble ideas, rather, in the Kingdom of God, faith is more of a verb than it is a noun; it’s “Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven!” My point is, if the Church truly knows what it means to think like God, then why aren’t Believers leading in every realm of society as God’s solutionaries? Why are injustices like sex trafficking, abortion, racism, and prejudice, to name a few, still happening on our watch? Where are the innovators and the idea makers, the risk-takers, and the ground-breakers?

Have you ever questioned if there really is hope for the problems that have submerged society? Or felt overwhelmed by the enemy’s perverted, poisonous, and pretentious plans? Maybe it has even caused you to take a seat and hope for the best, rather than actively progress in discovering a victorious plan. The truth is, we as a Body have largely mirrored worldly thinking, which has undermined the triumphant call on us to rise and shine with ageless wisdom and supernatural power. Jesus also cautioned us about this political spirit when He said that in addition to the leaven of the Pharisees, we should beware of “the leaven of Herod” (Mark 8:15).

Have you ever come up against a problem that leaves you racking your brain for a solution? Maybe you’ve even found yourself lying awake at night counting all the possible ways to come to a resolution. In a world where we face problems on a regular basis, whether simple and subtle or loud and large, we are all familiar with the sense of dread when they come our way. However, what if instead of dread being the first emotion that we face, we were met with excitement as we anticipated the solution from Heaven that we would receive?

Have you ever considered the amount of faith needed in some of the commencing moments of the greatest catalytic inventions and most commemorated innovations of all time — electricity, airplanes, and the internet to name a few? Or maybe you’ve thought of how it felt in the very moment when the first airplane took off with success or electricity became a modern necessity; the sigh of relief and the breath of reprieve that met the scientists, thought leaders, and history makers after they had taken courageous steps into the unseen.

Recently I felt the Lord press on my heart the power that our words carry and the importance of having a pure heart. I decided to refresh this blog post that I wrote several years ago on reigning in a rogue tongue so that you might be encouraged to finish the year with honor and nobility on your lips instead of dread and despair.

Imagine with me for a moment a soldier heading to the battlefield with no armor or weapon, dressed in street clothes, and no prior training for how to fight in battle. Don’t you think we’d deem them unfit for the job and question their ability to protect our country and attain victory?

Have you ever considered the amount of faith it took to advance the most transformative inventions in the world today? Consider sitting with the discovery that light is an electromagnetic wave knowing you would have to convince people that something completely invisible to the human eye was powerful enough to cause light to shine! This brilliant finding catapulted modern science and has been the foundation of inventions such as the light bulb, wifi, and radar. In a sphere of humanistic values and atheistic beliefs, the scientist James Clerk Maxwell ventured into uncharted territories with the belief that the seen world was made from the unseen (Hebrews 11:3) and thus discovered electromagnetic waves.