Daily Devotional – 2/5/18 “Live!”

What if you were told today, you have six months to live; what would you do with the time you have left? I know this may be hard to think about and even for some, a devastating reality, but I need you to go there. See, I ask the question as a way to prick something within you because too many of us are taking the precious moments of life for granted. We put off stuff thinking we have time. We don’t take time to make memories because we think we have time. We don’t appreciate, like we should, because we think we have time. We don’t serve like we could because we think we have time. We don’t appreciate and celebrate the small things because we think we have time. What if you didn’t? What if today or tomorrow or Friday or six months from now was your last day? Would you be happy with the way you’ve lived? Would you be pleased with the way you’ve left things? Would you be satisfied with the way you’ve served? Would you be content with the memories?

Or would you need the last six months to get your affairs in order? Would you have worked so much that you’d need the last six months to make memories with your family? Would you need the time to take pictures because you never stopped to do them before? Would you need time to make amends? Would you need time to forgive? Well beloved, this is your wake up call. No, I am not about to say you have six months to live but I simply stopped by to tell you are ALIVE! Right now, at this very moment, you are alive. You don’t have to believe me. Blink, inhale, exhale, move a limb or speak. Yep, you’re alive so what are you going to do? Will you keep holding grudges or offer grace? Will you continue to harbor anger or will you release it and breath? Will you keep taking life for granted or will you appreciate the life you’ve been granted? Think about it but not for long because you’re alive and you have another chance to do whatever it is you want to do. All you have to do is try. Even if it doesn’t work, you don’t get approved or you don’t get the call back; it’s better to say you tried than saying, I wanted to try it and never did. You’re alive so take a chance. “For the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.—Job 33:4”

Heroine Addict – Women’s Journal

Are you ready to journal your way to becoming addicted to HEROINE?

No, not the drug but the woman you are and destined to become. The woman who is admired by others, who is held in high regard, who is favorable and filled with courage. The woman who is honorable and of good quality.

You are probably asking, why is this journal different from all the rest? After all, it is another book filled with blank pages intended for your thoughts, affirmations, poems, scriptures and etc.; however, this journal was created in the hope you will become addicted to heroine. This journal was created, through prayer, in order to encourage you to search for, find, pull out and then display the heroine within you because your destiny depends on her surviving.

Are you ready?

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Heroine Addict – Women’s Journal

Are you ready to journal your way to becoming addicted to HEROINE?

No, not the drug but the woman you are and destined to become. The woman who is admired by others, who is held in high regard, who is favorable and filled with courage. The woman who is honorable and of good quality.

You are probably asking, why is this journal different from all the rest? After all, it is another book filled with blank pages intended for your thoughts, affirmations, poems, scriptures and etc.; however, this journal was created in the hope you will become addicted to heroine. This journal was created, through prayer, in order to encourage you to search for, find, pull out and then display the heroine within you because your destiny depends on her surviving.

Are you ready?

** If you are interested in a journal with regular book binding, for $15 you may purchase it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/198397207X

** If you are interested in a spiral bound journal, you may purchase it via PayPal: (copy and paste links)

If you want it shipped $18 ::

PayPal.Me/AuthorLakisha/18

For local delivery $15 ::

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Daily Devotional – 2/2/18 “Choose you, this time!”

I don’t have a lot to share today but I just needed to stop by, on this Friday, to tell somebody this … Stop jeopardizing your happiness for somebody who doesn’t have the competency, the want and the need to make you happy. Yea, sure he/she can give you the quick fix type of happiness that comes from sex, a dinner date, paying a bill or answering your call/text. But what about the down in your core type happiness that has your eyes and your walk smiling. Don’t you deserve to be happy? I know you’re comfortable with them and you’ve talked yourself into believing, him/her isn’t that bad but when they are bad, it hurts you more than you can explain. Sure, when the going is good, it is really good but how often is that happening? Beloved, you’ve got to know you deserve to be happy. And you shouldn’t have to choose whether to be happy or have the bills paid or happiness over him/her being at home or happiness over just being able to say you have somebody. You can be happy without compromising your sanity. Suffering for righteousness, bible says in 1 Peter 3:14, you will be blessed. However suffering for ridiculousness, life says will break, batter, bruise and burden you down. You can change it by choosing YOU this time. Be selfish, this one time and choose you. Beloved, choose YOU because you deserve to be happy even if it means closing a door you thought you never could. “A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22

Daily Devotional – 2/1/18 “New month, try again!”

The first day of a new month, how has the year been for you? For some, it has been good because you’ve stayed on track and did what you said. For others not so much because how can you complete the vision board when the vision is still blurry. You don’t know what it even feels like to set goals and achieve them because you’re still in a stagnant place surrounded by the chatter of fear. You’re fearful of the “what if.” What if it doesn’t work? What if I fail? What if folk don’t support it? What if this or that? Well beloved, start over. Yep! Try again because you have another chance. As a matter of fact, we won’t even count January, set it aside as the trial month of 2018 so there is no need to worry about the goals you didn’t meet, the vision board that is still incomplete and the thing you said you’d start or stop that you haven’t yet. Today is the first day to do it again. What’s it? It is whatever thing you’ve been putting off. It is the purpose that God woke you up with. It is the thing that will not leave you alone.

For the bible shares in Psalm 128:2, “You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.” What’s the sense of having to labor all day and night with your hands and not be able to enjoy what your labor produces? Would that not defeat the purpose of laboring in the first place? Understand something though. Before you get to verse 2, you’ll first need to read and then do verse 1 which says, “Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!” No, this is not the kind of fear to make you afraid to walk out of your house but it is the kind that should challenge you to think about your actions before they happen. You know like asking, “What would Jesus do.” See, when you fear the Lord and walk in His ways; He says you’ll eat, you’ll be blessed and it shall be well with you. Is that not worth it to get up and try again, even if it hurts? Is that not enough to make you want to get up and try again even if it didn’t work the first seven times? Get up and try again even if they didn’t call you for the interview last time. Get up and try again even if they have denied you three times already. Just because you didn’t do it by January 31st, you got the blessing of February 1st to try again. Make it count this time because your destiny depends on it.