Fasting, Prayer, Worship and Praise But does your lifestyle Glorify God?

I know our recent stories have focused heavily on fashion, beauty, and style, but this conversation is at the heart of why Che’l Magazine was created.

Che’l was created to encourage God’s people to slow down, pay attention, and consider how faith is reflected in our everyday lives.

Our lifestyles cover a wide range of things, and they may look different from person to person. But ultimately, as believers, our lives are meant to glorify God.

Recently, I asked a question on Instagram: “Can someone tell that you are a believer in Christ by the way you live your life?”

It is a simple question, but it is also a heavy one. It forces us to slow down and take an honest look at the details of our everyday lives.

What does our faith look like at work? How do we interact with our friends and family? How do we spend our money?

How do we care for our homes? What do our conversations sound like? How do we behave when we are frustrated?

What do we do for entertainment? How do we conduct ourselves when we travel or move through the world?

There are so many areas of our lives that can reveal what we truly value.

For this story, I want to focus on three areas that the Holy Spirit has been bringing to my attention: how we care for our homes, how we interact with the people closest to us, and the conversations we have.

Caring for What God Has Given You

Caring for my home is one area where I have personally felt convicted. Whether you own your home, rent, live in a basement apartment, a condo, or a house, the way you care for your space matters.

Even the way you speak about your home matters. Our homes may not look exactly the way we want them to, but they are still something God has entrusted to us.

There are people who are praying for the kind of home that you may sometimes take for granted. The home you complain about may be someone else’s answered prayer.

So, when you are folding what feels like an endless pile of laundry, sweeping or vacuuming the floor for what feels like the fifth time that day, take a moment to pause and be thankful.

As a mother of two little ones, I know how quickly household tasks can feel repetitive. There are days when I find myself thinking, “I just cleaned this!”

But what if, instead of complaining about the task, we thanked God for the ability to do it?

What if we looked at the laundry differently? What if we saw it as evidence that we have clothes to wear and people to care for?

What if cleaning our homes became an opportunity to practice gratitude rather than another reason to complain?

Matthew 25:14–30 tells the parable of the talents. While the passage speaks specifically about what the servants were entrusted with, I believe it also invites us to think about how we steward the things God has placed in our hands.

Are we taking care of what He has given us? Are we intentional with it? Are we grateful for it?

Sometimes stewardship is not about having more. It is about taking care of what you already have.

How Do We Treat the People Closest to Us?

The second area is our relationships. It is easy to become frustrated. We are human, and life can be overwhelming.

Most of us interact with friends, spouses, children, parents, siblings, coworkers, and other people on a regular basis. When we are frustrated, it can be very easy to transfer that frustration onto the people around us.

I want to share something personal. After having my daughter, I went through a period of intense postpartum stress and anxiety.

I found myself becoming easily frustrated, and I remember praying often and asking God to help me through that season. To keep a long story short, there were moments when my frustration came out through yelling.

One day, after I had yelled, I remember feeling deeply convicted. In that moment, I felt the Holy Spirit bring something to my attention: What if God treated you according to your mistakes and failures in the same way you are treating someone else right now?

That thought brought tears to my eyes. I could not imagine what that would feel like. But I knew I would not want it.

And that brought me back to the words of Jesus: “Love your neighbour as yourself.” — Mark 12:31

We often hear this verse, but what does it look like in our everyday lives? It means considering how we would want to be treated when we are frustrated, overwhelmed, wrong, or difficult to deal with.

It means extending grace because we know that we need grace too. It means remembering that the people closest to us should not always receive the worst version of us simply because they are familiar with us.

Our faith should be visible in the way we treat people, especially when we are frustrated.

What Are We Saying?

Finally, there are our conversations. The Bible has a lot to say about the words that come out of our mouths.

Ephesians 4:29 says: “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”

Our conversations matter. And if we are being honest, many of us have been guilty of using our words in ways that do not reflect Christ.

This is something that can even be prominent within the church. Talking about someone behind their back. Judging someone based on something we heard.

Assuming we know someone’s character without knowing their full story. Sharing information that was never ours to share.

Having conversations that tear someone down while convincing ourselves that we are simply “telling the truth.”

But we have to ask ourselves an uncomfortable question: If the conversation we are having is tearing someone down, isolating them, damaging their reputation, or encouraging others to see them negatively, does that conversation reflect the life Christ has called us to live?

Not every conversation needs to be had. Not every opinion needs to be shared. And not everything we know needs to be repeated.

Sometimes living a life that glorifies God means choosing silence.

So, What Does Your Lifestyle Say?

Fasting matters. Prayer matters. Worship matters. Praise matters.

But our faith cannot only exist within the moments when we are inside a church, listening to worship music, praying, or reading our Bibles.

Our faith should also be visible in the ordinary. It should be visible in how we care for our homes and how we speak to our families.

It should be visible in how we respond when we are frustrated and, in the conversations, we choose to have, and the ones we choose to walk away from.

It should be visible in the way we treat people when there is nothing to gain from being kind. Ultimately, our lives are a reflection of what we believe.

So I will leave you with one final question:

If an unbeliever followed your lifestyle for 24 hours, would it lead them closer to Christ or further away from Him?

Perhaps that is a question worth sitting with. Not to condemn ourselves, but to examine ourselves.

Because following Christ is not simply about what we say we believe. It is also about how we live.

Be bold. Be intentional. Be the light.

Lilian Ogbuju

Creative Director, Che’l Magazine

9/30/2026