23rd April 2025 - Hope & Joy

I have so many thoughts that I jot down when I’m listening to podcasts or talks on YouTube that I figured sharing them on here might be a good way to go!

I was just listening to a Stephanie Ike Okafor talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZJZALQ3qw) and wrote this down…

To “give your life to God” isn’t giving as much as it is laying down your life. Laying down your life that gets corrupted and manipulated so easily by darkness; and receiving Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice in return. Receiving continued mercy for our human mistakes, grace to get up and try again, forgiveness to eliminate shame from our body. We get to be made new. Again. And again. We get to be used by God in his story of redeeming a corrupt world. We get to see, and be, heaven on earth.

When I first had the desire to create something different, a different way of thinking about mental health and just our overall health in general, God gave me the information for The HUNTER Method.

I put all the information together and created booklets, then when it came to share it I suddenly thought, ‘this would reach more people for you God if I took out all the scripture and music linked to you so people don’t think it’s just for people who know you’ 🤦🏼‍♀️ … a couple years later, God has reminded me that HE is the healer! He is the one who uses the words to translate personally into the lives of everyone who comes across them and lead them to a life of freedom.

So, 6 years later, I’m back to try again… and to walk with God and be used as his vessel with hopefully less facepalm moments!

When you lay your life down at the feet of Jesus your eyes are opened to so much hope and joy around you.

Yes, you still experience hard times.

Yes, sometimes those moments are unimaginably difficult, and I’m here to simply sit in the sadness with you in those moments.

But, in time, I’m also here to spot where God’s light is piercing through into your story and sit in those moments too.

I’ll leave it there and keep it short and sweet for the first post!!

(Don’t panic, my personality hasn’t completely changed, I’m writing a book to fulfil that desire to just write forever! 😆)

Lis x