Daily Video Devotional – 4/27/16

Make this Wednesday worshipful! For you my brother/sister, whatever you’re dealing with; please know that God is able to do what you need Him too. Don’t use God for what you want but seek Him for who you know Him to be. I pray this devotional blesses someone on today. 

I’ll be back to posting the regular devotionals on next week. Monday, May 2 is mine & my sister’s birthday but I’ll still post. Lol! 

And if there’s a specific topic you all want to hear or see a devotional on, let me know. You can email me at authorlakisha@gmail.com, comment on this post or hit me on any social site. 

Be blessed y’all!

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Daily Video Devotional – 4/26/16

I said I wasn’t going to do a video devotional everyday but since I’m in training all week, it’s easier to do (on these days).  I won’t do them everyday because then you’ll get burnt out on seeing my face (lol).  

However, I wanted to stop by and encourage you, for just a few minutes. No matter what you’re going through, God is able. I pray it blesses you as much as it has blessed me. 

Be blessed!

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Daily Video Devotional – 4/25/16

I’m in training this week, at work, so I didn’t get a chance to write a devotional this morning. However, I did take a few minutes to record a little encouragement.

If you follow me on Facebook, you’ve probably seen the two that I posted on last week. If not, please visit Kisha’s Daily Devotional on Facebook.

In the meantime, here is the video devotional from this morning. I pray it blesses you, in some way.

Be blessed!
Lakisha

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Daily Devotional – 4/22/16 “Whining and complaining?”

Trust God

Look, you ought to be at a point in your life where whining and complaining are no longer a choice for you or at best it should be minimal. Yes, I know things are going to happen but whining tho? When has whining and complaining gotten you anything worthy? When has throwing yourself a pity party ever resulted in something good? When has blaming folk ever paid off for you? When has making God the cause of your problems worked out in your favor? I get it, you see more bills than money, more sickness than healing, more death than deliverance, more killings than kindness, more situations than solutions, more problems than patience and more things than time but complaining won’t solve them. While you see an issue, God is giving you an instance to actually interpret His involvement as influenced instruction. See, God won’t ever allow you to go in a test without first giving you the directions of how to come out. God will not send you into a storm without the strength you need to soon come out. God won’t let you deal with defeat without having a plan for your deliverance afterwards. This is why you’ve got to get out of the comfortable state of whining and complaining.

Yes, I know you’ve gotten good at it but it’s meaning you no good. Yes, I know nobody tells you that you’re doing too much but let me be the first … you’re doing the most, chile! Stop focusing on the door that closed, you’re missing the one that’s opening. Stop being concerned about the folk who’ve left when God is sending you a group of folk to push you into your next level. Stop leaning on your past, you’re missing your present. Stop worrying about the few things that didn’t work when there are numerous ones that do. Stop looking at what you lost when God specializes in restoration. Quit looking at the start and work until the test is done because you may be surprised at the outcome. All you see is the storm brewing but you’ve yet to seek the advice of the meteorologist who is never wrong. I know it looks dark but have you spoken to the man who created light? Yes, your life may be hard, at this very moment but God hasn’t left you. Stop whining! As long as you go through with God, you’ll come out with God. Your troubles are temporary, your pain shall pass, your crying will cease, your meaning will manifest and your obedience to God will become obvious. What you need to do now is, stop complaining and whining through the obstacle of life in order to see that’s God’s miracle (which is you) can overcome it all.

“Do everything without complaining and arguing, so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.” –Philippians 2:14-15

Daily Devotional – 4/21/16 “Getting what we need, not what we want!”

On my way to work (after a doctor appointment) I stop at Popeye’s. I order the $5 big box, chicken strips, only to get to work and have a chicken breast and thigh. Now, I could have been upset about it and simply thrown it away but I would still be hungry. The chicken is still good so I’ll eat it. What does this have to do with a devotional? I’ll tell you … Sometimes you have to eat what you get even though it’s not what you ordered. Sometimes you have to receive what God gives even if it’s not what you prayed for. Sometimes you have to accept the hand you’ve been dealt even though you were hoping for better cards. Sometimes you have to accept the fact that the odds aren’t going to always be in your favor, this time! Yes, I know I paid for chicken strips but they’re both the same price so I didn’t lose anything. I still received something to put inside to stop my growling stomach. Oh, I know that isn’t the car you wanted but the car note is what you needed. I know you’re ready to get married but be thankful for the time God is giving you to prepare yourself to be a husband or a wife. See, I’ve come to realize that God gives us what we need and not what we want. Oh, it’s quite possible that this can be the same thing but think about the times it isn’t.

You should be glad about that. God could have given you that man, you wanted but instead He gave you the one you needed and you find out later the one you wanted is an abuser. God should have given you that woman you begged Him for but instead He gave you the one He knew would help you in your ministry and you later found out the one you wanted, wasn’t first lady material anyway. Oh, yes; God could have given you that house you kept driving by but the next time you went, you found out it was built wrong and needed a lot of work so be grateful He gave you the one you needed. God could have given you that job you kept crying for but instead He blessed you with a career and you later found out why the turnover rate was so high on the one you wanted. Beloved, God gives us what we need and He’ll supply our every need, at His time. What do you do in the process? Wait with patience, praise and faith! So stop acting like God owes you everything you ask for especially when you know some of the things you’re asking for don’t belong to you anyhow. Trust God because He knows. And be glad He doesn’t give us everything we ask of Him because then most of us would be tore up, raggedy, divorced 13 times, in bankruptcy every 7-10 years, jobless, homeless and sick.

— “And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19