Actress Jen Lilley, recognized for her ten-year role as Teresa Donovan on “Days of Our Lives,” released “Wake Up Your Faith: 365 Daily Encounters with Jesus” in 2025 to help Christians move from passive belief to active spiritual engagement. Drawing on her personal victory over a fifteen-year battle with bulimia through faith, Lilley structured the devotional with daily scriptural foundations paired with practical action steps. The book emphasizes themes of confidence, surrender, and boldness while encouraging readers to practice forgiveness, maintain quiet time with God, and share the Gospel urgently. Further exploration reveals her creative process and mission-driven approach.
Actress and author Jen Lilley has released *Wake Up Your Faith: 365 Daily Encounters with Jesus*, a devotional book aimed at moving believers from passive faith to active spiritual engagement. The 2025 publication combines scriptural foundations with daily action steps, structured around themes of confidence, surrender, empowerment, and boldness. This devotional also includes practical steps for living a forgiving life as taught in Scripture, highlighting forgiveness practices for spiritual and emotional healing.
Lilley, known for her role as Teresa Donovan in *Days of Our Lives*, where she appeared in 430 episodes over ten years, initially resisted writing the book. After being approached at the Movie Guide Awards in 2023, she felt led by the Holy Spirit to proceed.
The writing process involved fasting and prayer, with Lilley describing the project as an effort to spiritually revive what she calls “dead bones,” referencing the Book of Ezekiel, and to prepare the Bride of Christ.
The devotional emphasizes that faith requires action beyond belief. Lilley highlights love as the clearest expression of lived faith, manifesting through patience, kindness, and humility. She suggests a practical test where readers personalize 1 Corinthians 13 by inserting their name in place of the word “love” to self-assess their patience, kindness, and tendency toward anger or offense.
She encourages readers to trust God rather than worldly influences in what she describes as a competitive culture, and stresses the urgency of sharing the Gospel. Her message emphasizes moving toward a more spirit-filled life that experiences God’s healing power, faithfulness, and grace.
Lilley views her Hollywood career as a mission field, frequently sharing her faith despite what she characterizes as Christianity’s rejection in the entertainment industry. She accepted her *Days of Our Lives* role, playing a drug addict, after feeling Holy Spirit direction that it would serve as a mission opportunity.
She also co-hosts the “Into the Supernatural” podcast.
Her personal testimony includes overcoming a fifteen-year battle with bulimia through faith. She describes facing various trials while keeping her focus on Jesus, shaped by Scripture since childhood.
The book challenges believers to reignite their faith and walk boldly with Christ. Lilley calls for evangelism action, including praying for others and making disciples, stating the harvest is ripe and the time is now.
She emphasizes that quiet time with God is essential for spiritual growth, conviction from the Holy Spirit leads to transformation, and intimate relationship with Jesus requires truth and obedience. Every believer, she maintains, is called to share their faith and reflect God’s unconditional love.
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