Daily Devotional – 7/19/16 “Suffering to remember!”

As I was reading the book of Micah, in preparation for revival on last night, it reminded me so much of the way things are going now. I mean, Jerusalem and the people of Israel had become a rebellious, unrepentant people and because of this, the false prophets and preachers; God said I am sending you to exile. Exile, being sent from your own home by an authoritative decree. God sent the people to exile to suffer but He said, after you’ve suffered, I’ll come and bring you home. This means, we HAVE to suffer. Please understand, God doesn’t use suffering as a form of punishment but He uses it as a form of remembrance. What do I mean? Well, sometimes God has to snatch our ignorant behinds out of our comfort zone in order for us to stop taking what He does for us, for granted. See, we get comfortable in knowing that God will do it. We expect God to wake us up, provide for us, shield and protect us and etc. that we sometimes forget that He doesn’t have to do it. So in order to get us to remember that He doesn’t, He allows us to suffer. Suffering isn’t unto death but it’s so we can rejoice in the deliverance, afterwards. Suffering isn’t to break you but it’s so you can be restored. This is why God says, after your period of suffering, I’ll show up to bring you home restoring everything you’ve lost.

But chile, we’ll get in our suffering and start screaming like God has forgotten us. We get in our suffering and start acting as if God was the one that abandoned us. Leaving God scratching His head, asking the question like He asks in Micah 4:9, “But why are you now screaming in terror? Have you no king to lead you?” In other words, God is trying to understand, why it is now that you’re screaming. God says, you weren’t screaming when you were sinning and not repenting. Were you screaming when you were standing over my people lying and prophesying from your flesh? Were you screaming when you had all the things you’ve asked me for but didn’t thank me? Were you screaming in pain when pleasure took precedence over praise? Were you screaming in agony when you turned your back against me? Of course you weren’t, then why are you screaming now that I’ve placed your butt in exile? Beloved, God is allowing you to suffer because He needs you to remember Him. Think about it, it’s only after you’ve lost something that you reflect back on the way things were when you had it. After you lose your house to foreclosure, your car to repossession, your hair to chemo, etc. you start remembering what it was like to have those things yet it doesn’t happen until you’re suffering from the lost. Well, when God sends us through suffering, He’s trying to get us to remember the blessings He’s allowed us to enjoy that we take for granted. And it is God’s desire that after He brings us out, we’ll appreciate Him and them more. This is why you should come out of your suffering declaring, “My suffering saved me!” If you don’t, you have a lot more suffering to do.

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Daily Devotional – 7/18/16 – “At the name of Jesus!”


Sometimes in the face of chaos, confusion and calamity; you need to just take a moment and call on the name of God. Yea, every chance you get, you ought to cry out to God in your loudest voice, letting everything around you know whose you are and who you believe in. You do believe in God don’t you? Beloved, the bible says in James 2:19, “You say you have faith, for you believe that there is one God. Good for you! Even the demons believe this, and they tremble in terror.” Now, if demons shake at the thought of God, what do you think they’ll do if you call His name in the midst of the hell you’re going through? Jesus! Baby, I just believe that by calling on the name of Jesus, it’ll make the enemy let go of my stuff. I’m spiritually crazy enough to believe that calling on the name of the Lord will make the enemy tremor in his spirit, making him let me go. Think about it, when you’re trembling it’s hard to hold on to stuff. When you’re shaking in fear, you can barely think right to hold your composure. When you’re unsteady, it’s hard to keep a grasp on things. So, if this is the case and this is what happens to the enemy when I call on the name of the Lord; why wouldn’t I do it?


I don’t know about you but I’m tired of the enemy taking my stuff. I’m sick of the enemy grabbing a hold of me and my family. I am fed up with the boldness of the enemy. And if calling on the name of God, shakes him loose; I have no problem doing it. Look, the enemy will make you think he has control of the situation you’re in but baby, if God wanted you to lose your mind and if God wanted you dead; you’d be there by now. Stop looking at the darkness as a punishment from God when in fact it’s purpose. There isn’t anything that goes on, in the lives of believers that God don’t know about and allow. God ordains everything that happens to His children. How do I know? Well, If God designed our path, clearly He designed the mile markers of trouble along them and just like mile markers; they don’t last long for you to dwell on. This is why you have to get to a point where you trust God in the good and the bad. This is why you have to get comfortable calling on the name of Jesus, even if it’s in places you wouldn’t normally. You have to get to a place in your life where you believe in the God you serve, call on His name and trust Him to do that which you’re asking. Because the bible says in Deuteronomy 28:7, “The LORD will conquer your enemies when they attack you. They will attack you from one direction, but they will scatter from you in seven!” Do you believe it?

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Daily Devotional – 7/15/16 “What’s in a name?”

I’ve never been one to refer to myself as a bad B****, I’ve never seen the need for it. My momma gave me a name that fits me as well as the nickname my grandma gave me; so I’m good. I don’t need you giving me or calling me anything else. The only other person who changed my name was God and His name change came with promotion. This is why you can’t refer to me as a B**** or anything else other than my name. See, I would go so far as to say that those who refer to themselves as such obviously don’t understand what it means. By definition, it’s a female dog, wolf, fox or otter. However, it also means a difficult or unpleasant situation or thing, a complaint and it’s used to express displeasure. So, in other words when you refer to yourself, when your dude call you this or your so-called friends reference you as that; they are ultimately saying you aren’t really a bad b**** but you’re in actuality a difficult or unpleasant thing. This is why you have to be careful of the name you give yourself and the name you allow yourself to be called. There used to be a time when names meant something. A father would give his son his first and last name to carry on the legacy. Mothers would name daughters a name befitting to them. But now, we’ve gotten so wrapped up in fancy spelling, 22 syllables with 32 letters that we no longer consider the meaning of anything anymore.

In the bible, names meant something.

Abram meaning exalted father was changed to Abraham meaning father of a multitude because it came with promotion.

Jacob meaning holding of the heel (he was born holding his twin’s brother heel) was changed to Israel meaning having power with God. – It came with the anointing.

Simon means God has heard was changed to Peter meaning rock. Yet, Jesus sometimes referred to him by his old name of Peter to remind him of where he came from.

In the story of Joseph (whose name means may Jehovah add increase) was put in the pit by his brother Reuben but it was his brother Judah who pulled him out. Here’s where names matter. Reuben’s name means misery and Judah’s name means praise. So in other words, it was misery (Rueben) who put Joseph in the pit but it was praise (Judah) who pulled him out!

Names have meanings!

This is why you have to be careful what name you go by, what names you allow yourself to be called and especially what you answer too. For the bible says in Proverbs 22:1, “A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.”

PS – I will be in revival starting Sunday. Please see the flyer for more details. If you in Memphis, Mississippi or the surrounding areas, I’d love to see you. If not, send your prayers.

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Daily Devotional – 7/14/16 “Please stop!”

It’s time out for games, period! We, who said out of our own mouths that we believe in God and want to serve Him, regardless of age, need to understand that the games need to stop! I don’t know if you realize this or not but we are living in hellish times. And if you call yourself a Saint of God and you’re still playing games; it might be hard for God to recognize you as one of His own. So, today is the day that it needs to stop. This means, if you only go to church to give the pastor and members hell; please stop. If you proclaim to be a messenger of God yet you stay in more mess than an unbeliever, please stop! If you know good and well that your heart is dirty, stop putting your filthy hands on folk talking about healing or your unclean mouth talking about prophesying. If you know that your home is in disarray, how in the Heaven can you honestly handle God’s house? If you are lying and sinning thinking you can continually get away with it by showing up at altar call on Sunday, please stop. Beloved, we need some folk who can help ye one another. There needs to be some folk who can hold up the pastor’s arms when he or she gets tired. There ought to be some Saints, somewhere, lying on their face praying for God to have mercy on this land. There should be some folk who are willing to petition the throne of grace on behalf of their sister or brother when they can’t.

There needs to be more folk praying than there are of enemies preying. There must be more Saints snatching others out of the pit inside of pushing them down. There has to be more folk helping than there are of those hurting. There has to be! This is why the games have to stop. Stop going to church choking out the glory of God that’s there with your gossip. Stop showing up at the church meeting just to start some mess because that’s what your momma nem used to do. Stop sending text messages with foolishness, posting and sharing more foolishness because it needs to stop. You can keep on hating folk, if you want, but I don’t have time to keep playing. God has need of us and if we keep thinking we have all the time in the world to get it right, you are sadly mistaken. Everyday there is someone dying by the hand of violence. Everyday a parent has to bury their child because cancer was more aggressive. Everyday a mother has to kiss a son goodbye because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Everyday a daughter is committing suicide because she can’t handle the pressure of living. Everyday a sister is fighting a demon she can’t let go of. Everyday a brother is fighting in his home and in the streets. It’s has to stop y’all. The games and the playing, it has to stop! Please stop! We need more of God’s grace, not your worldly games.

Keep it real

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