Joycelyn Lewis

This practice of blessing those who wound me is not entirely new. When I was nine years old, after being bullied by many girls at school, I discovered the Bible for myself. One of the earliest lessons that formed me was the importance of praying blessings over your enemies. Even as a child, I learned that retaliation was not the way of Christ. I have been praying blessings for years — quietly and privately. What is new for me is writing them out.

Jesus did not assume discipleship would happen on its own. He designed it—with clarity, movement, and shared responsibility. At the heart of Jesus’ disciple-making work was a clear process: Go → Baptize → Teach → Send (Matt.  28:19–20) This was not simply a closing instruction. It was a repeatable, transferable disciple-making system—one that formed people and released them to participate in God’s work. But Jesus’ discipleship design was not limited to a sequence of steps. It also included...

As I lay there, revelation began to flow like water—steady, clear, unstoppable. The Spirit began speaking about education, formation, and th