Have you ever sat down to try to pray to God, but you couldn’t seem to find the words? Have you ever felt like your prayers just weren’t as effective as they could be? Well, I believe that some of the most effective and powerful prayers come straight from praying the scriptures. I remember when I first became a Christian, I cringed during group prayer. What could be more vulnerable and potentially embarrassing than praying in front of a group of people? Was there a right way to pray? What words should I be saying? Is there a method that I am supposed to follow? These were all thoughts that cam ..read more

When I created Truthfully, Michelle five years ago (wow, time flies!), I had a very specific image of the kind of woman I had in mind to build a friendship with. She is the woman who always puts her best foot forward in the world, even when she is in her darkest moments. She always tries to see the best in others even when she fails to see it within herself. This is the woman who wants to radiate the love of Jesus to those around her even in the moments when she feels alone. This is the woman who wants Christ-like bravery, courageousness and a genuine faith that sets her apart from the rest of ..read more

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In an Instagram perfect world, we only ever want to show the world the most beautiful, admirable side of ourselves… and even the ‘not-so-great’ parts of our lives that we choose to share are usually carefully vetted and chosen. After all, we have to share ‘faults’ and ‘struggles’ that make us relatable, but never at the expense of our reputation! So we often don’t really do a great job of preparing believers that the Christian walk is often fraught with difficulty. More often than not, we are led to believe that God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, but the truth is, He does. BUTTTTT ..read more

Let’s take off the mask. No filter. No fluff. Only the absolute truth. Change is so hard. Even for the most spontaneous ones amongst us, we crave stability, trust and consistency. We want to know that in a world where we feel alone, afraid and without support, that there is something that we can hold onto. I always find it so amusing that one of the two only constants in our life is change! No matter who we are and what stage of our life we are in, one thing we can count on is that there are always changes happening! The irony makes me smile. Does it make you laugh too? The other thing that w ..read more

It’s mind-blowingly crazy to me that life whirls by in a blink of an eye. It feels like it was only yesterday I was fresh faced, doe-eyed, fresh out of high school and getting ready for college. Nothing floated my boat more than a good meet-cute story, listening to Taylor Swift for hours and spending time laughing with my friends. Now I am waking up to neck wrinkles?! OK…. I might be over-exaggerating here, but seriously! Name a single girl past the age of twenty-one who actually likes to celebrate getting older. But with age, wisdom comes. (At least one would hope!) And with every year that c ..read more

Photo by Ivan Samkov on Pexels.com When people sign up for your email list, then what happens? Do they get an email delivering their freebie, and that’s the end of the road? Or maybe you send out weekly newsletters to communicate, but there’s nothing else to welcome and warm them up to your brand? I’ve got news, your subscribers need a litttttle somethin’ more in the beginning… Enter: a welcome email sequence. A welcome email sequence is exactly what it sounds like! It’s a sequence of emails that someone receives over a period of time after subscribing to your email list that introduces them t ..read more

It brings me a lot of joy to introduce new testimonies to this little corner of the internet because I just LOVE how we can be encouraged by the fact that the Holy Spirit is alive and well… and it is certainly moving in the lives of those around us! How sweet is that? So, without rambling too much, I’m so pleased to present to you Sharon’s testimony of faith and I hope that you too can be encouraged by how God brought her back to Him! My Faith Background I grew up in West Africa, Nigeria where Christianity is wielded as a tool to defraud the masses. My country is bombarded with the venomous ve ..read more

I remember having late-night conversations with this friend who believed that God didn’t care about her. She was a lovely girl, extremely clever, hardworking, and very loving to her family. She had been raised in a Christian family and had so many things going for her, but being a girl who placed so much emphasis on her achievements, she often felt marginalized, overlooked and mistreated by God when He chose not to give her something that she worked so hard for. With this, she couldn’t see the point of believing in a God that just didn’t appear to care about her. Every time she was rejected by ..read more

Do you remember what it feels like to go through your old Facebook posts and re-read some of the things that your thirteen-year-old self wrote about? There is that mix of your stomach lurching and your face scrunching up that perfectly encapsulates what it looks like to feel ‘cringe’ inside. Well, just a couple of nights ago, I underwent an even more terrifying journey where even the bravest of the brave would have been sure to cringe in fear… The old diaries where I had so carefully written every thought and feeling that passed through my twelve-year-old mind came out of hiding. Never had I b ..read more