Lakisha, the Author

New Author Alert

Are you in need of books to read? Well, you’ve stopped in the right place. I’ve had the privilege of reading all of her books and I know you will love them too.

Meet Author Genevieve Woods. Author of the Greatest Love Series. A Christian book writer who has penned 4 titles and currently working on her 5th.

Begin the journey with the cast of The Greatest Love Series, you will find new love, lost love, redeemed love but most of all the greatest love of all.

Book 1 – All I’ll Ever Ask available for $0.99
Book 2 – After Church available for $0.99
Book 3 – Dawn and Autumn available for $0.99
Book 4 – Just Be Held available for $0.99
Book 5 – The Conclusion – available now for pre-order

Follow her on Facebook in her book group – GDWOODSBOOK READERS

Happy Reading
— Lakisha

Daily Devotional – 11/11/16 “It’s time!”

In November of 2009, I did something I never thought I’d do … I left the only church I’d ever known. The church I grew up in, served in, raised my family in but God said it was time to move. And for months I toiled with it. I talked to my, then, pastor, my husband and I prayed over and over and God still said it was time. See, God was shifting me and had I been disobedient, I would have missed it because all I knew was, I was moving from my comfortable place. But I went that Sunday and after uncle preached he opened the doors of the church. I felt myself walking down the aisle to become a member of a church I had to drive over an hour to get too. A church being led by my uncle with 30 faithful members, in a small town called Hollywood, MS. I didn’t know it then but God was removing me from my comfort zone in order to grow what He’d placed in my belly. He was getting me ready to give birth and I couldn’t do it in the old environment I was in and had I stayed I would’ve delayed God’s call on my life.

Why am I sharing this, again? It’s because somebody needs to know that God always has a purpose for the things we don’t understand. I know it may not make sense but He has His reasons. You have to trust Him enough to let go of the comfortable, move from the familiar and dwell in the painful. Stop trying to figure it out, you can’t. Stop trying to make sense of it, it doesn’t. Trust God and go. Stop holding on to what God has told you to let go of. Stop staying where God has told you to leave. Stop dwelling in the familiar simply because you’re scared of the unfamiliar. Erase those old text messages, empty your inbox of old memories, delete past mistakes and block the mess of the present. It’s almost the end of this year and you’re still in the same shape because you’re holding on to what feels good even though it ain’t done a bit of good for you. It’s time to move beloved and it’s time to let go. Will you?

“Commit everything you do to the LORD. Trust him, and he will help you.” – Psalm 37:5

PS … My sister, Laquisha and I will be on WMC-TV 5 at 9AM tomorrow morning promoting our new book, The Family that Lies. If you haven’t purchased your copy, you still can by clicking HERE

Daily Devotional – 11/10/16 “Smelly Feet”

My daughter and I watched War Room the other night. This was my second time seeing this movie yet when it begin to play something stood out to me that I never figured out the first time. It was the issue with Liz’s smelly feet. I kept trying to understand why they would mention this, over and over, in the movie when it didn’t seem to fit. So I begin to read. I first had to understand what significance feet mean, biblically, and as I studied, it says that feet represent our walk, conduct or formal possession. Ok! With this in mind, it means that Liz’s feet represented her conduct. We know, from the movie, that Liz’s conduct wasn’t 100% because she admitted to not spending a lot of time in prayer nor did she pray for her husband. Plus, she was so wrapped up in work that she began to miss important parts of her daughter’s life. Thus her smelly feet representing her smelly/bad conduct.

And often times, our conduct, as children of God is bad and smelly. That’s because we walk into places we have no business, we do things we know aren’t right and we carry ourselves in ways that aren’t pleasing to God. So when the aroma of our sacrifice begins to burn, it stinks in the nostrils of God. Oh but aren’t you glad God is willing to wash our dirty, funky feet? Aren’t you excited about the fact that God doesn’t turn us away when we take off our shoes and they smell bad because we’ve walked through things that caused them too? Doesn’t it make your heart rejoice that God is willing to stoop down before us and wash our smelly feet in order to cleanse us, His children? If it doesn’t, it should because the bible says in Isaiah 52:7, “How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger who brings good news, the good news of peace and salvation, the news that the God of Israel reigns!” If your feet represent your conduct, how would yours smell? If you took your spiritual shoes off, right now, how would they smell? Are you willing to remove them and see or should I say smell?

Daily Devotional – 11/8/16 “You’re in good hands with … God!”

I’ve started this blog over two times, unsure of what God will have me to share with you. I mean, how many more times can I tell you to stand in the midst of what you’re going through when I don’t even know what that is. How can I constantly remind you to keep the faith when I don’t even know if you had faith to begin with? How can I tell you, every day, to fight when I don’t know the enemies you’re facing? How much more can I share with you that you haven’t heard before? Because, if we can be honest with each other, there are some times when you don’t want to be all holy and Christian like. There’s some times when the enemy is whooping your butt and you don’t want to hear, just hold on. There’s some days you don’t feel like drying your tears. Some nights you don’t have any more strength to pray. Some midnights you don’t even have the energy to wrestle any longer. I get it because I’ve been there. Where’s there? To a point of being frustrated and still failing. Fighting and still losing. Praying and still being persecuted. Faithful and still feeling forsaken. Anointed and filled with anger. Prophetic and still playing. Worshipping and still wandering. A watchmen who’s still weak. What do you do and what do you say?

Well beloved, I don’t have anything new to share with you because the word is still the same. So, if you feel like falling, fall. If you feel like letting go, let go. If you need to give up, do it. But the only way to do any of these things is if you are falling, letting go and giving up into the hands of God. For David said in 2 Samuel 24:14, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.” See, I’ll never tell you that you can’t fall, I just have to make sure you know where it is you’re going to land. Stop trusting every man or woman who says they’ll hold you up. Stop relying on anybody’s arms to catch you when you fall. Be mindful of the hands you end up in because not all of them are good. Yea, Allstate says you’re in good hands with them but that comes with conditions of paying your premium. But the God we serve has everything we need in His hands for the bible says in Psalm 145:16, “When you open your hand, you satisfy the hunger and thirst of every living thing.” This is why I need you to know that you’re in good hands with God, you just have to trust Him enough to fall into them.

Daily Devotional – 11/7/16 “Fight Mode!”

Someone woke up this morning after a very hard and long weekend. You may have experienced anger or abuse, burden or betrayal, change or criticism, death or disappointment, divorce and depression, heartache and headaches, unfair fights, endless pain, tormenting fear or unyielding tears. You may have looked around and found no physical help. You may have even called a few folk and they didn’t come. Went to worship only to leave worse. Tried some more folk and they couldn’t help either, only to get up this morning still in fight mode … Good, stay there! Why? Well because you need to fight. Fight for your sanity. Fight for your peace of mind. Fight to get your good name back. Fight for your joy. Beloved, fight for your life! See, it’s when you get fed up and tired that you’ll really fight. It’s when you get sick of folk doing you any kind of way that you’ll really put some weight on it and punch. It’s when you get tired of fighting the same folk over the same issues they know isn’t right that’ll you stand in the correct position and truly fight to win.

So whomever you are, you have a right to fight but you have to fight with the right stuff. Stop trying to fight with stuff you know good and well you can’t win with. When David fought Goliath, Saul initially gave him his armor but David wasn’t use to them. So, he got what he was used to fighting with; 5 smooth stones, his slingshot and shepherd’s bag. 5 biblically means, God’s grace. And not only did David take God’s grace but he took the stone of obedience, the stone of servanthood, the stone of faith, the stone of prayer and the stone of the Holy Ghost = 5 smooth stones. See, David fought with what he knew would work. Now my question to you is this, if you know what you’ve been using/doing isn’t working, when will you tap into what does? You’ve got to stop being afraid because David says in Psalm 56:3-4, “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise– in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?” I don’t know what you’re fighting ma’am, sir but I do know that when you take the grace of God with you, He’ll do the rest.