Your body, your family and your home are one assignment, and God already gave you everything you need for all three. We walk it out here every week, straight from Scripture.

Hey y’all, and welcome to Monday Manna!

We are going to start heavy this week. Stay with us, because there is hope on the other side of it.

Last month, we published an article about why we came to Substack. We told you about the ten years of family photos that vanished when Facebook removed Dr. Z’s personal account during COVID. We told you about the email company that threatened our ability to reach our own subscribers over a natural health article. And near the end, we wrote a line that felt almost dramatic to type.

We said: “enjoy this while we can.”

We have not stopped thinking about it since…

Circa mandatory lockdowns & curfews, 2020. The world was coming apart outside and freedoms were being stripped away one by one.

They can delete accounts. They can censor you. They can prevent you from working and providing for your family unless you comply. But they cannot make you forget what they did…

The Writing Has Always Been on the Wall

TikTok has been deleting Christian accounts.

Not shadow banning them. Not throttling their reach. Deleting them. Bible teachers, natural health influencers, ordinary believers with huge audiences they spent years building, gone in an afternoon under labels like “hate speech” and going against "established medical advice.”

Two notable influencers with 7-figure followings are Ryan Miller and Kale Blossom. Look it up if you care to, but we are watching this go down, and haven’t been able to shake it. To be honest, it’s triggering a little PTSD.

Some of you know exactly why…

If you lived through the COVID era of censorship, this lands in your gut before it registers in your head. Every post on certain subjects flagged in real time. Comments disappearing. People fact checked by a machine before a human ever read a word of it.

We are not talking about this from a distance. We were censored, de-platformed, prevented from emailing our readers, blacklisted by Google, restrained from writing our thoughts on our blog. Our very livelihood stood in the balance, and we know what the sick feeling in your stomach is like when the notification lands on an ordinary Tuesday.

Interestingly, while we were actively being censored, hundreds of thousands of accounts were popping up all over the place — mostly millennial and Gen Z moms sharing their outrage over COVID and essentially create the now viral “crunchy mom” movement on Instagram and TikTok.

As their message grew in popularity, the fear of COVID simmered down, and things started to go quiet — leading many people to conclude that the censorship and fact-checking was over.

But the Holy Spirit warned us that it was not over. It was a lull.

The precedent got set and the machinery got built, and machinery does not take itself apart. It waits for an appropriate time.

We’re not saying the recent de-platforming of Christian and natural health influencers on TikTok is a mark of a new wave of censorship.

We’re just saying that the writing is on the wall, and see this as a gentle reminder from the Lord that the devil is still the ‘god’ of this world and not to let our guards down.

So here is our warning, plainly…

Substack will not stay this way forever.

Right now it is small enough to be left alone. More than 35 million users is a lot of people and it is still nothing next to the billions on Facebook, Instagram & TikTok.

But if this place keeps growing, if enough famous names arrive and enough money follows them, it lands on the same radar every other platform landed on. And the same pressure arrives. There is no version of this story where it does not.

It is a matter of time.

That is not us being dramatic or conspiracy theorists. That is us being students of history.

And we’re not going to blame Substack. It will have a fiduciary responsibility to manage the messages that it allows to be published on this platform or it will be held accountable — just like every other major platform during the post-COVID era to comply with whatever the “powers that be” say must be complied with. It’s essentially law at this point.

So we are going to enjoy Substack for as long as we have it. We are going to publish while the door is open. And we would love for you to do the same.

In the meantime, be wise about what you make public.

Your testimony belongs to the world.

Your medical file does not. Nor all of your political views. Because things may change and some things are best kept private.

Somewhere along the way a private decision turned into a public identity, and it is worth remembering that fifty years ago nobody walked around wearing a sticker announcing their prescriptions.

We are grieving with our brothers and sisters who have been silenced this year, and praying for them.

And we are going to keep doing the thing we actually came here to do, which is help you think for yourself and not rely on ‘experts’ and ‘influencers’ and the ‘powers that be’ (more on that in the coming weeks).

We wrote this a few weeks ago. It reads differently now.

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“Test all things; hold fast what is good.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:21

Paul wrote that to a young church, and he did not write it as an assignment for the spiritually advanced. He wrote it to everybody in the room.

Test. Examine. Prove it out. Then keep the part that holds up.

It is worth noticing what that command assumes about you. It assumes you are capable. It assumes God expects you to weigh a thing instead of swallowing it whole. Nowhere does Scripture tell a believer to hand their discernment to an institution and go back to sleep.

Which is exactly why the label lands the way it does.

If you take that verse seriously in 2026, sooner or later somebody is going to call you a conspiracy theorist. Not because you are reckless. Because testing all things looks like rebellion in a culture that has decided certain things must never be tested.

So here is your one thing this week. Pick one health decision you are making on autopilot, something you do because you were told to, and actually ask why. Not to rebel. Just to own it. Pray over it, look at the fruit of it, and make it yours.

An unexamined decision is not obedience. It is a habit with somebody else’s name on it.

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Bible Health is where we teach the why. Over on Natural Living Family this week we taught the how, and this batch lines up with the theme better than we planned. Four favorites worth your five minutes.

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One question this week, and it is a real one.

What is a health decision you made because somebody told you to, and never went back and examined?

No judgment here. Every one of us has one. Naming it is the whole exercise.

The Writing Has Always Been on the Wall

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