Lakisha, the Author

Daily Devotional – 1/4/16 – Jesus loves me, unconditionally!

There is a name I love to hear, I love to sing its worth; it sounds like music in mine ear, the sweetest name on earth. Oh, how I love Jesus! Oh, how I love Jesus! Oh, how I love Jesus, because He first loved me!

Baby, there’s something about the love of Jesus! Yes, I love this man and my husband doesn’t mind because he loves Him too. See, there’s something about loving a man who loves you back, unconditionally. What do I mean? Well, when Jesus loves us despite our flaws, in spite of our mistakes, regardless of when we fall and even with our filthy selves; He loves us without conditions. Yea, when God can accept us even in our broken state, when God can still use us even in the midst of our mess, when He shows up in that hour to protect us even in our sin and when He still wakes us up knowing we aren’t fitting to live but surely not ready to die; He loves us unconditionally. I don’t know about you but I need this unconditional love because I, sometimes, still mess up!

See, folk will love you but theirs may come with some stipulations or conditions. Yea, you may have to sign a pre-nuptial agreement, you may have to agree to some things or you may have to lose some folk for their love; that’s conditional love. When folk will love you only when you help them, when you can give them what they need, when you can be what they want, when you look like what they need you to look like, when you talk how they want you to talk, when you dress like they want you to dress, when you hang out with who they want you to hang out with or serve how they want you to serve; they love you conditionally. I don’t want that type of love. Love me because of whose I am then love me for who I am. Love me because you love yourself. Love me because you love me! God does. Even when I was a filthy nobody running from His anointing, backed up in a corner afraid to step out on faith, spiritually blind and I couldn’t see His light, too worldly to be worthy, too ungrateful for His grace, too messy for His mercy, too mean to hear His message, too selfish to tithe, talkative and still not testifying, too lazy to listen, too angry to be used, too ashamed to acknowledge Him and even when I felt like I was too broken to believe, too hurt to heal, too fearful to fight, too scared to stand, too weak to walk and too damaged to be delivered; He loved me unconditionally. Oh, how I love Jesus because He first loved me!

Daily Devotional – 12/31/15 “God’s surgery of restoration!”

It’s the last day of the year; please don’t sit around crying over what could have happened. Beloved, you woke up this morning which means God is giving you another opportunity to try it again. I don’t know what ‘it’ is in your life but get up and try again. Get out of that mess you’re in and try it again. Get up out of the pity and try it again. Oh, I know it doesn’t feel good but when has been broken felt good? Have you ever broken a limb, didn’t it hurt? Well, going through things of this life hurts too but in order to be fixed, it first has to be broken, right? Then stop complaining. I mean, how can God work on you if there’s nothing to fix? You wouldn’t go out and break your car just to see if you could fix it, would you? Well, God works the same way. He is only dealing with you, at the appropriate time, because there’s something broke that needs fixing. Let Him finish. Stop rushing the work because you need all the help you can get. Let’s be honest. God deals with us (I mean spiritually whoops us) when He is fixing that which is broke within us; let Him finish. Stop acting like you don’t know what it is. You know there is some stuff in you that need to be removed, let God fix it. You know there are some words that need to be taken out of your mouth, let God do it. You know there are some folk that need to be removed from around you, let God handle it.

Yea, God has found some defeats in you and now you need to go through the spiritual surgery of restoration. Your heart has holes from brokenness, spirit filled with leaks from mess, lungs not functioning properly because you’re breathing in the wrong stuff, blood filled with hater toxins because you’re around the wrong folk, veins clogged with anger and your joints are locked from non-movement; you need surgery. Oh, I know you can’t figure out why you keep getting knocked down, that’s God trying to do surgery. Trying to figure out why you can’t stand for long, that’s God trying to do surgery. Trying to figure out why it feels like you’re groggy and can’t seem to make sense of what’s around you, that’s God trying to do surgery and you need to be still! Don’t go into another year carrying the same baggage from this year, the year before that and the year before that. You need this surgery because it’s the only way for you to live. Allow God to do it. Yes, it’s going to hurt but then there’s recovery and after recovery, you’ll be restored. But you have to let God do it. Don’t go into another year broken from a past hurt. Don’t go into another year filled with anger from unresolved issues. Don’t go into another year lying to God. Get it together Saints. God wants you. Allow Him to fix you. Don’t go into another year without being the best you!

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She’s always been unapologetic about who she is but when her life starts spiraling out of control, she will have to change her tune.

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Happy Reading

-Lakisha

Daily Devotional – 12/30/15 “Don’t count out 2015!”

Somebody is already making plans for 2016 but what about the last two days of 2015? Don’t you know that God can send a miracle, in these last two days that will change your entire outlook for 2015? Haven’t you heard about the Man who can heal you by breathing new life into your body? It can be done in two days. God is the type that will allow a financial blessing to hit you on 12/31/15, before the New Year even rings in. Why are you already counting out this year when you have a God who can do wonders in the blink of an eye? Why are you overlooking the rest of this year when things can happen, just like that? I don’t know about you but I’m not counting down the days of 2015 but I’m counting on my God. I don’t know about you but I’m not waiting to next year to become great when I know God can still make me greater in this year. I don’t know about you but I’m counting in my God. Why? I have that type of faith. Yea, I have that type of faith because my faith is in a man I know can do it. I have faith that God will still open doors, in this year. I have faith that God will still heal, in this year. I have faith that God will deliver, in this year. I have faith that God will set some people free, in this year. Oh, it’s the way my faith is set up!

I’m not worried about next year because the bible tells me in Matthew 6:31, “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” I’m not counting on tomorrow because the bible tells me in James 4:14, “How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog–it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.” I’m not about to brag about what the New Year holds for me because I don’t know but I surely know who holds tomorrow. This is why the bible says in Proverbs 27:1, “Don’t brag about tomorrow, since you don’t know what the day will bring,” so I’ll just live for today. Stop waiting until next year to petition God when you have ample time in this year. Don’t put off today waiting until the New Year because you might not see it. Don’t miss the worship service on tomorrow thinking you’ll make it to the first Sunday in the New Year, you might not see it. All I’m saying is this … Don’t overlook the remaining days in this year waiting on the New Year when God can still do it for you now. Don’t miss your blessing, don’t miss your healing, don’t miss your deliverance or your breakthrough waiting until the New Year; it can still happen in 2015.

Daily Devotional – 12/29/15 “Pardon me!”

If I make a mistake and I apologize, will you forgive me? If I didn’t come when you called and I apologized, would you forgive me? If I hurt you and I apologize, will you forgive me? If I happen to fall and I apologize, will you forgive me? Most will say yes, but do we really forgive? I mean, think about it … do you really forgive? Forgiveness means the act of pardoning someone for a mistake or wrongdoing. So I ask the question again, do you really forgive? Forgiveness is not bringing up my mistake every time we argue. Forgiveness is not holding my past against me. Forgiveness is not holding a fault over my head. Forgiveness means you’ve pardoned or released me from any further punishment from whatever mistake I made. And the bible even says in Proverbs 17:9, “Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends.” Don’t you understand? Forgiveness isn’t about the person who hurt you but it’s so you can move on. But you cannot forgive if you are consistently waiting for them to mess up again. So, pardon them!

But get this, in order to move you’ve got to forgive AND forget, I’ll tell you why. When you don’t forget, you tend to bring up stuff that has happened and every time you bring it up, you bring back all the emotions you felt at the time the mistake happened. Don’t believe me? If your spouse cheated and you say you’ve forgiven him or her yet you don’t forget, every time you argue and you bring it up; it makes you mad all over again. You’re still angry over someone dying even though you say you’ve forgiven them and you may have but if you don’t let it go; the anger will consume you. I am not saying forget them but forget what they did in the midst of you forgiving. Beloved, if God can keep forgiving us and forgetting the stuff we do why can’t we? If God can overlook our mess and call us blessed, why can’t we? If God can cast our faults into the sea of forgetfulness, why can’t we? I don’t know about you but I’m at a point where I only have room to be filled with the anointing, fire and Holy Spirit of God and if I continually hold on to stuff that folk have done to me; I wouldn’t have room for it. So, I forgive you; can you forgive me?