Most of you know the broad strokes of our story. This week we want to tell you the part most testimonies leave out, the part that took twenty-three years to understand, because it is the whole reason we build what we build. That plus a short word on standing firm and a recap of everything we published over the holiday week.
And this is a big week in another way too. The new series we started on renewing your mind with Biblical Affirmations has become so popular that we dropped all seven Abundant Life Affirmation cards into the Bible Health Vault for our paid subscribers, the complete set, one for every part of your life.
Grab your matcha latte, and let’s go.
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What We Published This Week
This week continues our series on renewing your mind and getting free, both on paper and in your spirit. Here is everything we published, from a short prayer for freedom to an in-depth look at money featuring a Financial Health Toolkit to help you regain control of your finances (God’s way):
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FROM NATURAL LIVING FAMILY
Bible Health is where we teach the why. Over on Natural Living Family this week we taught the how, with a holiday spread of clean summer swaps you can actually use. Here are a few favorites from the week:
Happy 4th of July! DIY Sunscreen Bars + Healthier Hamburgers + Freedom Verses We put together DIY sunscreen bars, cleaner cookout food, and a handful of Bible verses about freedom for the Fourth.
DIY Hand Cream + Bergamot Oil + Homemade Soda Pop We made a natural hand cream, walked through bergamot oil, and mixed up a homemade citrus soda pop without the junk.
Healing Turmeric Oil + DIY Burn Cream + 4-Bean Salad with a Summer Twist We whipped up a homemade burn relief cream, covered turmeric essential oil, and tossed a tangy summer 4-bean salad.
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The Freedom I Could Never Have Earned
Celebrating the Fourth means more to us than fireworks, cookouts, and a day off with the kids. It reminds us every year of a different kind of freedom, the kind that changed everything for our family twenty-three years ago, the kind we could never have earned and never stopped being grateful for. That is the story we want to share with you this week.
Dr. Z here.
This weekend the whole country talked about freedom. I sat on the porch with my matcha and thought about a different kind, the kind that saved my life more than twenty years ago, and the kind that took me twenty-three years to fully understand.
Most of you know the broad strokes. Let me tell you plainly. In my early twenties I was not free. I was self-medicating, addicted to things I am not proud of, and there were nights I did not want to wake up the next morning. On paper I looked fine. Inside I was a prisoner, and I had no idea how to get out on my own.
Then God put an 83-year-old evangelist named Enoch in my path, and on March 16, 2003, I gave my life to Christ. The chains I had white-knuckled for years came off almost overnight. The cocaine, the alcohol, the street drugs, even the cussing. Gone. I did not earn it. I could not have earned it. It was purchased for me before I ever knew I needed it, and all I had to do was receive it.
But here is the part most testimonies leave out, and the part I need you to hear, because it is the whole reason we do what we do.
The addictions left overnight. My health did not.
The depression, the anxiety, the chronic pain, the gut issues that plagued me for years, God did not lift those in a single night. That freedom came slowly, over twenty-three years of learning to steward the body He gave me. One changed food at a time. One removed toxin at a time. A ten-day fast that started Mama Z’s own healing, and years of watching her body come back to life layer by layer as we took out what was hurting her. We went to doctors when we needed them and thanked God for them. We were never purists. We were stewards, learning as we went.
Two freedoms. One instant, one slow. Both from the same God. And I would not trade either one, because together they taught us the truth we build everything on: grace sets you free in a moment, and stewardship walks that freedom out over a lifetime.
That is why we build what we build.
Every affirmation card in the Bible Health Vault, every teaching, every printable you can tape to your mirror exists for one reason: to help you speak God’s truth out loud until it is louder than the lie that says you are still stuck. We are not hyping you up or selling you a feeling. We are handing you the Word of God in a form you can hold onto, because that is exactly what held onto us.
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Maybe your prison is not a substance. Maybe it is fear about money, or a diagnosis, or a running script that says you will always be the sick one, the broke one, the anxious one. Hear me as someone twenty-three years down the road you are standing on: the Son came to set you free, and when He sets you free, you are free for good. The healing may come slower than the deliverance. Keep walking anyway.
“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” — John 8:36
Freedom in Christ is not a feeling you chase. It is a position you already hold, and satan’s whole game is to convince you that you are still a slave to the thing that used to own you. That is why we speak Scripture out loud. Not to talk ourselves into a better mood, but to agree with what God has already declared over us. When the old thought comes knocking, we have learned not to argue with it on its own terms. We answer it with the Word, and the Word wins every time.
That is not a figure of speech for us. It is a practice, and starting this week, the complete toolkit for it is in your hands.
We just finished something we have been building this summer, and we could not be more excited to hand it to you. A series on renewing our mind featuring seven Abundant Life Affirmation cards that are now in the Bible Health Vault.
Here is why that matters. God did not redeem one corner of your life. He came to make you whole, and the abundant life He promised covers all seven areas: your health, your spirit, your mind, your emotions, your relationships, your work, and your finances. So we built a card for each one. Every card is a set of Scripture declarations, God’s own Word, arranged so you can print it, tape it where the lie gets loudest, and speak the truth out loud until it takes root.
Anxious about money? There is a card for that.
Fighting a diagnosis? There is a card for that.
Stuck in a thought that says you will always be the broken one? There is a card for that too.
Seven key areas of your life. Seven cards. One complete arsenal for renewing your mind, exactly the way Romans 12 tells us to.
This is the tool we reach for when the old thought comes knocking at two in the morning. Now the whole set is yours.
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YOUR DAILY MANNA
“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” — Galatians 5:1
Paul wrote this to people who had tasted freedom and then started drifting back toward the very rules and chains Christ had already broken. He does not scold them for being tired. He reminds them who they are. You were set free, so stand there.
Notice that standing firm is the work. The freedom is already finished, purchased at the cross, but staying in it takes a daily decision to not pick the old yoke back up. For us that has looked like what we eat, what we watch, and what we let our minds rehearse at two in the morning. Slavery rarely announces itself. It usually just feels familiar.
So this week, when the old pattern invites you back, whether it is the sugar, the fear, the frantic pace, or the lie about your worth, plant your feet. You are not a slave anymore. Stand firm in the freedom that already has your name on it.
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