You know how you wake up in the morning…
and you make that walk to the kitchen?
And with every step, there’s this little anticipation building—because you know what’s coming.
That first cup of coffee.
Whether it’s your coffee pot, your Nespresso, whatever your “cup of happy” is… you get there, pop in the pod, hit the button—and you just know that you know it’s about to activate.
You don’t stand there wondering,
“I hope this works today…”
No.
You hit the button with full confidence.
And within seconds, that aroma starts filling the house…
And you’re like, yes… this is exactly what I needed. ☕️
You know exactly what I’m talking about. (I can just see you now smiling and nodding your head yes! Preach it, Tracee! LOL!)
And while this might sound a little funny…
that’s exactly how our daily life with God is supposed to look.
So let’s be honest for a second…
We expect that coffee to show up for us every single morning, right?
Like—if you hit that button and nothing came out?
We’d have a problem.
You’d be standing there like,
“Excuse me… what is happening right now?” 😄
Because you didn’t question it when you hit the button.
You expected it to work.
But when it comes to our faith?
We don’t always live like that.
We don’t always wake up with that same expectation of,
“God is moving today.”
“God is working in my life right now.”
“God is about to show up in ways I can’t even see yet.”
Instead…
we kind of treat faith like that appliance sitting on the counter we know works…
but we sometimes forget to actually turn it on.
And before we know it, life gets busy…
We’re running from one thing to the next,
handling daily responsibilities, the pile of laundry perched on the couch, writing the next to do list, hearing ‘mom, mom, mom’ on replay in the background,
managing what’s in front of us…
And our faith?
It’s still there.
We still believe.
We still love God.
But it’s just… simply there.
Not activated.
Not moving.
Not being lived from.
And that’s the difference.
Because faith isn’t meant to just sit in your life like a nice idea…
It’s meant to be something you live from daily.
I had a moment recently that reminded me of that in a way I won’t forget…
Years ago—over 20 years ago—Edwin had back surgery from his career in videography and broadcasting.
And ever since then, it’s been one of those things that would still “talk” from time to time.
You know what I mean…
Not constant… but there.
Manageable… until it’s not.
But in recent years, it started talking more.
And last July, it got so bad he could barely walk.
The pain… the numbness going down his legs… it wasn’t just uncomfortable—it was intense.
We went to the doctors.
And you know how that goes…
They told us what we already knew.
“Manage it.”
“Do what you can.”
“Here are your options…”
So that’s what he was doing.
Managing it.
And then one day… we’re just standing in the kitchen.
Nothing big.
Nothing spiritual feeling.
Just normal everyday life.
But as I’m watching him move… watching the way he’s compensating… the way he’s pushing through the pain…
And something in me just shifted like the flick of a lightbulb turning on.
This quiet, sudden thought:
“Wait a second…”
“We have the Great Physician living in us.”
And I remember thinking,
He does not have to live like this.
Before I could even talk myself out of it…
I reached over, grabbed the olive oil sitting right there by the stove, put a little on my finger, and placed my hand right where his pain was.
And I just started praying.
Activating what I knew to be true from who my God is!
That Jesus already paid for our healing.
That His Word is real.
That this wasn’t something we had to just accept.
We prayed.
We thanked God.
And then…
we went on with our day.
No “wow, something just happened” feeling.
Just… faith in motion.
And here’s the part that I ABSOLUTELY love.
About six months later, I looked over at Edwin and said,
“Wait… it just hit me…”
“Your back hasn’t hurt you since the day we prayed in the kitchen.”
Not once.
Not a flare up.
Not a “bad day.”
Nothing.
Hallelujah!!! Thank you, Jesus!
That’s activating daily faith.
Sometimes it looks like a quiet moment in your kitchen…
with a little bit of oil…
and a decision to believe God is who He says He is.
HOLY HABIT ACTIVATION
And this is where our Holy Habit comes in this week.
Because what happened in that kitchen?
That wasn’t random.
That was Hebrews 11:1 in real life.
“Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.”
Now here’s the context we don’t always stop to think about…
Hebrews 11 goes on to list men and women who didn’t just believe God—
they moved on what He said.
Before they saw it.
Before it made sense.
Before there was any visible proof.
That’s the kind of faith we’re talking about.
So let’s bring that down to real life.
Faith isn’t just:
“I believe God can…”
It’s:
“I’m going to live like He already is.”
In that moment in my kitchen…
There was no evidence anything was changing.
But faith said:
👉 “I believe anyway.”
Holy Habit This Week
👉 Where in my life am I waiting to see it… before I start living like it’s true?
And then—
Take one step.
Pray it.
Speak it.
Thank God for it.
Not because you see it…
but because you believe in the power of God’s Word.
And that, my friend, is where everything changes.