Lakisha, the Author

Daily Devotional – 3/8/16 “Don’t wait until one day …”

When I pulled up Google this morning, there was a message that said, share your #OneDayIWill to celebrate International Women’s Day. That got me to thinking, what will you do, one day? And why do you have to wait until one day to do it? This isn’t just for women but it’s for all of us. See, I’ve come to realize by now that if I don’t do it, I’ll only have myself to blame. I can’t worry about what might happen because it might not. I can’t worry about if folk will support it, some will, some won’t. I can’t worry about tomorrow for I might not see it. So I ask the question again but this time it’s a little different … what will you do? You don’t have to wait until one day, today is better than any to start. Listen beloved, I don’t know what it is you’ve been contemplating over but when will you trust in the faith that God has given you? When will you step out the boat of familiarity, comfort and complacency and allow your faith to kick in to do it! (Whatever your “it” is)

I’ve told you before and I don’t mind asking again but what’s the sense of having a gift only to allow it to be buried with you, when you die, without utilizing it. Let me be transparent for a minute. Before I accepted God’s calling on my life, I was fearful. I was the one standing at the edge of the boat while God beckoned me to come out. I was looking around at the folk who I thought would have something negative to say, I was hearing those who were already thinking “she isn’t minister material,” and I was looking back over my life to try to understand why I would be worthy of such a calling but then God said, “Girl, what are you going to do?” So, I got out and my life hasn’t been the same since. Yes, I have naysayers in my inbox saying I shouldn’t be preaching and writing books about sex but I politely type a message back, “And you are?” I have those, family included, who will never support anything I do and guess what; I’m alright with that. I have folk who are wishing I’d fall but I simply show them the credentials of God’s anointing that tells me even when I fall, I can get back up. And then I walk on. So tell me, what are you waiting for? The time will never be right, you will never be perfect, you won’t please everybody, you might not get tomorrow and you might just make a mistake but you have to try. Don’t wait until one day, you might not see it. Do, be, go, see and become whatever you are destined to be, not one day but TODAY. Don’t use #OneDayIWill but use #TodayIWill or #TodayIChoose. Or you can always make your own.

“But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up? A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest–then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.” Proverbs 6:9-11

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Daily Devotional – 3/4/16 “The anointing needs no justification!”

You don’t owe an explanation for the anointing God has placed over your life. Stop trying to explain it and allow it to flow. It doesn’t matter that some are speaking ill will towards your life; they cannot stop God’s anointing. The only person, who can hinder it, is you. In the bible, the anointing of the Holy Spirit was taken from those God had allowed it to flow through because of their sin or disobedience and it’s the same for you. Your anointing isn’t indicative of the person beside you so stop trying to explain to folk the real reason behind your praise. Baby, if I told you the story of me; you wouldn’t believe it. If you only knew the hell I fought with before accepting my calling and now the hell I have to fight in after accepting my calling; you’d think I made it up. Yet, it doesn’t stop the anointing that God allows to flow freely through me. And today, you need to stop shying away from what God has called you to do simply because of what you think somebody will say. Stop hiding your gift because of how you think folk will respond. Jesus wasn’t accepted in most places He went either yet it didn’t stop the plan God had for His life.

This is why you’ve got to quit focusing on folk because some of them aren’t as holy as they claim to be. Pray to God for direction and He’ll lead you. Quit taking everything so personal because there is going to be someone in the crowd cheering for you to fail. There’s going to be somebody in your family who will never show up to stuff you invite them too. There’s going to be folk in your church who will never say amen, when you speak. There will be folk you thought loved you who will turn out to hurt you. There will be places you’ll want to go but won’t get an invitation. There’ll be folk you’ve helped who won’t help you. There will be those you let borrow and now they won’t answer when you call. Don’t take it personal. For the bible says in 2 Timothy 3:12, “In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.” Oh but don’t stop reading there for there is hope. 2 Corinthians 4:9 says we’ll be, “persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” Now go back to 2 Timothy 3:14-15, for it picks back up and says, “But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” Beloved, God has a purpose for each of us and because of this, we have no need to justify the anointing. All we have to do is walk in it and God will do the rest.

Daily Devotional – 3/3/16 “Study to show thyself approved!”

How can we teach what we don’t understand ourselves? Yes, we can go to a place of worship on Sunday, attend bible study, quote a few scriptures and pray out loud but do we clearly understand God’s word for ourselves? Or are we doing what’s familiar? I’m back in school, a theological school, and it’s sad to me that some of the adults in my class didn’t even know John 3:16 (For God so loved the world…). It’s sad that these are adults (young and older) who have never taken the time to get to know the one scripture that sums up the entire book of John, for themselves. Oh but we are quick to say we are children of the King. But are we? How can we be followers of God and not imitate Him? Haven’t you noticed that if a child watches you long enough, they’ll eventually pick up on some of the things you do and say? Well, why aren’t we doing and saying some stuff like the God we supposedly follow? If we’ve been followers of Christ, we ought to be like Him in some way, by now, shouldn’t we? I’d answer yes. However, the only way we can imitate God’s ways is by learning what His ways are and then what He requires of us. We do this by studying His word, in the instruction manual He’s left behind.

Don’t we read the instructions when trying to assemble stuff? Then why aren’t we reading the instructions of God when we claim to be assembling workers for His kingdom? No, we don’t have to know the bible front and back but how can we tell if the pastor, who’s serving us, is serving us the right fruit? A pastor or minister’s role is to teach and it’s our responsibility to get understanding. Oh but how can we get understanding on something we know nothing about? It doesn’t matter if we sit on the same pew Sunday after Sunday if we aren’t learning something that can be used to save those who are unsaved. And believe it or not if an unsaved person were to challenge a lot of the saved who are leaving church, some of us would fail. Why? Because we couldn’t even tell them what the pastor preached on. We can give you the fancy title but that’s it. And it’s a shame that a lot of us ‘church’ folk is going to straight to hell and it’s not because we are hellish people but it’s because we’ve allowed the glitz and glamour of being churched to overshadow being taught. We’ll take the whooping but not the word. We’d rather get ‘slayed in the spirit’ and not saved. I don’t know about you but the last thing I want is to be turned away from the gates of Heaven because I’ve not studied to show myself approved.

The bible says in 2 Timothy 2:15-16, “Work hard so you can present yourself to God and receive his approval. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth. Avoid worthless, foolish talk that only leads to more godless behavior.”

Daily Devotional – 3/2/16 “Born with a purpose!”

You were born with a purpose, don’t die with regret! What kind? Regret of not walking in your true calling, regret of not stepping out on faith, regret of not taking a chance or regret of allowing your life to be in vain. The last thing you should want is for your purpose to be buried with you. Live a life that’s pleasing and then live a life than will leave a legacy behind. Beloved, folk shouldn’t have to read your tombstone to know you were an aspiring minister, singer, writer, nurse, doctor, lawyer, business owner or etc. Let it be revealing by the life you live. I don’t want someone standing up at my home going celebration saying, “She wanted to be a …,” no ma’am, no sir; I want you standing up reading my accolades of the things I’ve accomplished because then I would have left a legacy. Once we’re dead, what else can we do? This is why we have to live. This is why we have to live happily. This is why we have to live happily every day. Why? The bible says in Ephesians 1:11, “In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.”

Oh but then it doesn’t end there because Romans 8:30 says, “And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.” So tell me again, why aren’t you walking in your purpose? Yes, God yes, it gets hard; you get knocked down more times than you want, you get talked about more times than not, you may get lied on and persecuted for believing in the God of multiple chances, you may even get to a point of feeling defeated yet even through all this, your purpose doesn’t change nor is it forfeited. And walking in your purpose pays off. Yea, it does. Walking in your purpose prepares you to reap the benefits of the harvest you sow. It may be sown in tears, bruises, sickness, hurt, rejection, repossessions, foreclosures, bankruptcies, divorce, death of some loved one, layoffs and burdens yet it’ll pay off. You may not see it now but you don’t see the benefits of a planted seed until it starts peeking through the dirt of blooming. Baby, don’t count out what you’ve sown. Yea, it may look dead but some flowers die in the winter only to spring forth in the spring. Wait your turn. But in your waiting, don’t allow your purpose to die for it was given to you for a purpose!