Breathe

When tragedy happens, we tend to question things. We question God, ourselves, the air because what do you mean they’re gone, I have cancer, my car is totaled, I’m being laid off, I have to move … what? It’s also during these times that anger rises because we don’t understand. Without understanding, all we have is anger, confusion and probably cuss words. Why me/us, why now or even what did I do to deserve this. When the truth of the matter is, you don’t have to do anything wrong or do everything right for suffering to become part of your life.


Yes, God cares, but here’s the reality of life: SUFFERING WILL HAPPEN. And it’s going to happen whether we’re ready or not. Why? It’s a part of life. Does it make it easier? Nope.

Things are going to happen that hurt and leave us lost and confused. Sometimes the test will be positive for cancer. A womb may not carry a child. There may be heartbreak, death, a rocky marriage, a failed business, a lost job. Organs don’t function well. Family members get sick or die suddenly. A house is foreclosed. A car is repossessed. You may even think it’s evil—but what if it’s just life happening?


And life happens because we’re living.

So, let me tell you this. While life is lifing, breathe. Because with every breath, oxygen is transferred to your blood to give you energy. Energy to take one more step. Stop trying to figure out the days. Take it a step at a time, breath by breath and moment by moment. Soon you’ll see that you can, in fact, survive. How do I know? Because suffering and surviving can exist at the same time.


Suffering represents the situation while survival reflects your ability to endure.

Breathe!

Happy New Year!

I pray you have the year you deserve! The year that God has designed, you’ve desired and the one you trust Him to guide.

Thank you for rocking with Lakisha, Lakisha, the Author, and Temple Church all 2025! Thank you for showing up, supporting, sowing, sharing, and praying. Thank you for the invitations received, new relationships, and fellowships. More than anything, I thank God for His covering, keeping, using, sending, and even His silence. God has done some amazing things, in my life, this past year and I am grateful.

Yes, there were times of questioning, tears, grief, loss, but I never lost my faith, trust, belief, mind, or my life. Therefore, I’m excitedly looking forward to all God has planned for me, today! Sure, I’m excited about the New Year, but I’m not making resolutions. Instead, I’m declaring and doing it because my faith is bigger than my eyes, and my God keeps His promises. So, I’m taking this New Year, day by day, because the year is too long for me to worry about. That’s God’s business and when He wants to share, I’ll be listening.

What about you?

Happy New Year! Happy New You!

We’re still saying YES!

February 4, 2024, Temple Church stepped out on faith. We didn’t start with 100 people and a large bank account. We began with $500, the faith of Pastor Kisha, her husband Willie, and 14 people who said yes to #TempleChurch.

Today, we’re still saying yes with our very first giving campaign: #buildHER. Because of the consistent generosity of our members and friends—people who give faithfully, cheerfully, and sacrificially month after month—we’re almost to our first goal toward building our worship facility.

Thank you for every seed sown and prayer lifted. Thank you for trusting Temple as good ground. As Reese Rucker always says: “Every seed is a brick, every offering is a step, and every sacrifice is a way of saying, ‘Lord, we’re making room for You.’”

Today, we’re inviting you to build with us by giving $20 on what we’re calling #20Thursday?

One small gift.
One powerful act of faith.
One more brick in what God is building.

Because $20 isn’t just a number. That’s faith in action and our vision becoming visible.

And tell somebody. Your share could be the connection that inspires someone else to give. You never know whose “yes” is waiting on your timeline.

Let’s Build HER together!

Cash App – $TempleChurch662
PayPal.Me/TempleChurch
ZELLE or APPLE PAY – 901.603.4752
thetemplechurch.net/BuildHER

You fighting or folding?

What do you do when every day it feels like you’re in the fight of your life? You fight!

“Did she say fight?”

Why yes I did. But this won’t be you just swinging all willy nilly. Naw. In this fight, you must focus on the thing that’s after you and what you’ve prayed for. I’m talking about the enemies on the path trying to hinder you. The enemies in the midst trying to distract you. Then the enemies waiting when you get what God promised to make you forget it was God and you start taking credit like it was you.

You must fight. But what your fight is going to acquire, this time, will be far greater than anything you’ve ever had before. This time your fight is for stuff bigger than your expectations. To own and not rent, to buy and not borrow, to be the employer, not the employee, to be healed, for your family to be delivered, for God’s spirit, and to see God, clearer. This time your fight is for what you’ve been called for.

But read this with your good eye. THIS FIGHT WON’T BE PHYSICAL, IT’S PERSONAL.

You’re going to have to fight to hush, not post in your feelings, act out of character, raise your fist, complain, and act as if God has forsaken you. You’re going to have to fight flesh and temptations. You’re going to have to fight the urge to sin and revert to your old ways. Why? Because this fight is for your present, future, and legacy.

And if the enemy wins access to your land, he’ll come after your life next. Why is he after you? Because even when you don’t know how anointed you are. The enemy does. This is why you can’t fight with your fist, but with God and on your face, fasting, prayer, and worship. Beloved, the enemy isn’t after who and what he already has. He’s after who and what God has His hands on. And if you ever want to know the areas you’re anointed in. Look at what the enemy attacks.

So, are you going to fight or fold?

Hello December!

We’re in a new month and somebody is already cringing, wishing for 2025 to be over with already.

Maybe it’s because the year hasn’t panned out as you planned. Shoot, who am I kidding? We don’t even have to talk about the past 11 months because last month was enough on its own. I mean, it whooped yo tail.

You endured a loss. You experienced a death and the grief is still heavy. Plans didn’t work out. Business didn’t do as well as expected. You didn’t meet your goal. You fell off the wagon, under the cart, and were almost run over. You slipped into depression. You slid into sin. Your anxiety flared. You didn’t fast as you promised. May have even gone back on some promises. Church membership and tithes are down. Stuff probably happened that could fill an entire sheet of paper.

But here’s the good news.

YOU HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE!

With tears, pain, mistakes, missteps, mess-ups, and everything else. YOU HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE! And you still have a God who’s looking out for you.

However, the question is now being asked. (Choose how and when to answer.)

What you gonna do with it playa? 👀