Lakisha, the Author

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.

Giveaway – The Family that Lies

You all have been awesome with your support of our new book, The Family that Lies. To show our appreciation, we are giving away a 8GB Kindle Fire. YES!! For a chance to win, email proof of your purchase of The Family of Lies to authorlakishagifts@gmail.com.

That’s it!

The Kindle will be gifted on Friday, November 25, 2016!

If you haven’t downloaded The Family that Lies, click HERE

Good Luck!

Oh, please don’t forget to leave a review!

Thanks and Happy Reading
— Lakisha

Daily Devotional – 11/4/16 “Interference”

As I was driving into work this morning, I was listening to 95.7 Hallelujah FM on the radio. For the first part of the ride, I had the volume down because I was having my morning talk with God. Then when I turned the volume up, I started getting interference from another radio station. So much that I decided to turn the radio completely off. In the stillness of the quiet, the Holy Spirit said “This is how the enemy interferes with us.” Come on Holy Spirit. See, many times the enemy will show up simply to interfere with what you have going on. he will stop by and interfere with your marriage just when you are about to step out on faith and apply for that new house. he will interfere on your job, right at the time you’re getting ready for that promotion. he will interfere at the church, at the moment membership is going up and the chattering has finally stopped. The enemy has a way of interfering in your life and if you don’t pay attention to it, he’ll have you turning everything completely off. (Just like I did with the radio.)

This is why you need to listen, be alert and sober-minded because if you aren’t you’re likely to miss the interference and blame something or somebody else. And if you miss the interference, you miss the incentive. What do I mean? Well, in hockey, a penalty is assessed anytime you interfere with the progress of an opponent who is not in possession of the puck. In football, there is a penalty for pass interference and if it’s on defense, the other team automatically gets first down on the spot of the foul. Simply meaning, after the interference comes reward. See beloved, the enemy only interfered after my morning talk with God knowing good and well something is about to happen. And for somebody, he’s only interfering with you because he sees what’s about to be thrown your way. The enemy knows the puck/ball is headed in your direction and you’re in line to score so he interferes. Don’t fret, because after the penalty comes the prize of praise that’s about to push you into God’s promise for your life. Don’t miss it! You just need to be mindful of the interference.