God doesn’t promise us an easy life but He does promise us that He will give us His joy, strength and peace in the midst of the challenges. So today, pray for His grace to sustain you, for His power to rest on you and for His strength to carry you. Read the article on how you can start to live in God's strength below: https://faithnjau.substack.com/p/embracing-weaknesses-to-live-in-strength FN "In Him we live & breathe & have our being"

Is our quest for wellness leading us to search for hope in places of uncertainty? Can we find true wellness in routines and trinkets or is the root of all wellness a desire for a hope filled life? Here's a post I wrote 3 years ago exploring how we can find true hope and wellness for our souls. Click the link below and be blessed: https://faithnjau.substack.com/p/hope-and-the-quest-for-wellness FN "In Him we live & breathe & have our being"

How you show up as a leader is all dependent on how you view yourself as a leader. Your leadership identity is at the heart of why you do the things you do and in the manner that you do them. As such, understanding your identity as a leader is of utmost importance as it permeates your day to day conduct; ranging from the decisions you make, the way in which you communicate as well as the manner in which you engage with your team and other stakeholders. Now, if your leadership

“Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength… It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.” - Charles Spurgeon "Switching off" work mode is something that I struggled to master for years. For a long time, I had a tendency of spending my down time, thinking about work related issues or matters which would result in my never fully switching off work mode. One of the reasons I believe many people f

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Imposter Syndrome is the persistent inability to believe that one’s success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one’s own efforts or skills. Those who struggle with imposter syndrome will experience high levels of self-doubt. This in turn causes those with imposter syndrome to doubt that their skills, capacity and intelligence actually got them to where they are in their ca

Life can be challenging and the fact is that you will face numerous problems and challenges. Acknowledging this simple fact is the first step in becoming a well-prepared steward. If your desire is to be a well-prepared and diligent steward then you must build the right mental strategies that will enable you to face life's challenges with strength and courage. In other words, you need to build mental resilience. "Resilience is the human capacity to meet adversity, setbacks and

In my last post, Triage Your Busy Life, I shared about planning and managing your tasks in a similar manner that the emergency room in hospitals use, i.e. using the the triage system. This type of management of work, studies and family tasks helps reduce the overall stress that we experience when we are faced with a wide range of tasks that we need to manage within a work/school week. Stress is actually a natural human response to the pressures and challenges that life prese

Congratulations, you made it through the first month of 2026! While January is done and dusted, the reality is that the work year has just begun. Somewhere down the line, many of us will most likely get burnt out and the enthusiasm we might have had at the start of the year towards our work might start to dwindle. This post will hopefully shed light on a system of how you can effectively balance the many tasks and responsibilities that come with the different roles you hold s

This year, I made a decision that I will strive to make a joyful impact as I go about my day to day l ife. Whether at home or work, my goal is to make sure that I am living a joyful life. And as I live a joy-filled life, I hope to make a joyful impact in the lives of those around me. Three years ago, I wrote a post on my substack titled My life seems miserable but I am full of joy . In that post, I explored the the following scripture found in James 1:2 -3 and the tension o

There is this account in the book of Mark of a man whose son was possessed by a demon from childhood. This demon caused his boy to convulse, foam at the mouth and become rigid. The man came to the Lord Jesus asking for him to cast the demon out. 'Then one of the crowd answered and said, “Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples

What would you do if you realised that you live in the midst of deceit? Would it cause you stop and wonder what this deceit might be? How it has and continues to affect you? Would you even care to know? What I find interesting about deceit is that it is always a cocktail of the truth mixed cleverly with a lie or two (or three). Unlike a lie that is often times easy to spot and a call out; deceit is more subtle in its form and requires discernment to recognise, wisdom to disma

In the last post, Meditation for Anxiety , I shared around the anxiety many people experience towards the end of the year, leading up to the start of each year. In this post, I thought I would expound a bit more on this topic. Here 's my two gripes with fear: Fear paralyses and causes you to stagnate. This paralyses causes you to move outside the will of God by choosing a path that seems more favourable i.e. Fear causes disobedience. I have watched my self over the years over

The end of the year, often leaves me with these feelings of apprehension and mild anxiety. As I think and reflect on the previous year, I find myself often mildly dreading the year ahead. Now, deep down I know that as difficult as the previous year(s) might have been, there is always joy, pops of happiness and successes that I would have also experienced but isn't it interesting that most of us tend to focus more on the challenges and difficulties than on those pocketfuls of

"We do not make decisions based off fear". My husband told me this after I had shared with him a situation that I was dealing with. What struck me most about him saying this was the fact that the situation I was narrating did not necessarily appear to be a "fear-inducing" situation. It was simply me letting him know that I did not want to respond to a specific message that I had received from a certain person. On a surface level, one could just say that I was attempting to "p

Sometime last year when things were going real pear-shaped in all areas of my life, I came to a place where I decided that I would ask the Lord real questions that I wanted real answers to. To show (myself and Him) just how serious I was about this, I went and got this large A4 size notebook that I dedicated to only asking the Lord questions. Once the question(s) is written I would then some spend time in prayer and, thereafter , I would get on with my day as I expectantly wa

2025 was quite the year. It will probably go down as one of the longest, shortest years I have ever had to live through. A year where my resolve was tested, faith purified and spirit humbled. And yet, despite the testing and challenges, 2025 proved to be a year of careful refinement where I saw the Lord gently (and sometimes not so gently) pulling me apart in order to beautifully piece me back together again. At a recent volunteer's appreciation evening, my pastor shared a me

I have, over the past decade or so, started various written, pictorial and audio-visual blogs with subjects ranging from hair care, relationships, social commentary, work dynamics and, most importantly, the Christian faith. Throughout the years, I shared my thoughts and ideas around these topics as I had (and still have) a deep desire to offer encouragement and hope to people who, like me, are trying to make it out of this side of eternity in triumph. What has become obvious