Lakisha, the Author

Ms. Nice Nasty 2 – paperback

Hey! Hello! Salutations to all my readers!

Ms. Nice Nasty 2 is now in paperback. Isn’t that great?

It will be available on Amazon in a day or two but in the meantime you can order it HERE. It is $15.00 but if you are a book club, social group, reading group or just a group who needs to order more than one, email me at authorlakisha@gmail.com for a discount code.

**Also, my devotional book, Doses of Devotion has been updated. It now includes prayers, new devotionals and the older devotions have been shortened. You can now order it for $10 by clicking HERE.

I look forward to your reviews!
–Happy Reading
Lakisha

Daily Devotional – 12/10/15 “A test of your strength!”

Today is better than yesterday, thank you Lord! For somebody, you can’t say that because it seems as if trouble has your name memorized. But know this; it’s just your time to go through. Please understand, the enemy feeds off your weakness and he is trying to make you think God has forgotten about you. But you know better, don’t you? The enemy is probably in your ear, sitting on the end of your bed, standing outside your door, texting you at this very moment or he or she may be who you’re sleeping with but don’t give in. He’s probably beckoning you, right now, to call your ex; steal from somebody, lie on folk, be petty and messy on Facebook, he has you going through folk’s phone, stalking their social media accounts, avoiding an issue you need to deal with or hating your own momma; GET UP! Folk has made you believe that it’s the man’s fault that you can’t get off state assistance; it’s yours! You got the nerve to take man at his word but you want to challenge God’s word. You have more respect for the club than you do your church (you’ll throw away your garbage there but you stick your candy paper on the pew).

Isn’t it something how we, as Saints of God, will have the mitigated gall to need validation of God’s promise but we take the promise of everybody else? I mean, we’ll give folk chance after chance but let God not show up when you want Him too, you’re ready to jump ship. But don’t you understand that there’s going to be some ups AND downs, some good AND some bad? If you never have to experience trials, suffering, let downs, knock downs, sickness, etc., how will you know how strong you are? You have to go through, some time. You have to endure; every now and then. It’s part of the process of living in these fleshly bodies. How would you know you can defeat the enemy if he never shows up? How can you know what you can overcome, if you never go through anything? You don’t realize the magnitude of your strength until it has to be used. A blind person wouldn’t know the strength of his hearing without the blindness. A mother wouldn’t understand her motherly strength until she has to fix dinner for six with $8. A widow(er) wouldn’t understand how to survive losing their spouse until it happens. And you couldn’t possibly know how you’d handle sickness until it comes. My point is, sometimes you have to go through. It’s not to take you out; it’s simply testing what you say you’re made of. Didn’t you say you were God’s child?

“Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong.” 1 Corinthians 16:13

Daily Devotional – 12/9/15 “Chocolate or complaining”

My nerves are on level 10! My schedule has been changed to accommodate overtime in our department and the traffic getting to work was horrible. Add that with I didn’t sleep well, last night, due to a headache and well, you get the idea. I think I ask God for forgiveness fifteen times in a few minutes. Jesus! But you know what? It could be worse. So you know what I did? I went and bought some turtles pretzels from the bake sale and I ate them! Yep, I ate them for breakfast. See, I could walk around with a frown on my face, mad at the fact that it took me an hour to get to work but why would I do that when I made it, safe and sound. I could let the disaster of my morning ruin my entire day but then that would be my fault. Baby, I’m too cute to walk around frowning so I decided to let it go. I couldn’t do anything about the traffic but I can surely do something about my mood. And I did, I ate chocolate for breakfast.

So between last night and this morning, whatever happened, happened. Get over it! Our attitude depends on us. Do something about it. Stop walking around mad at the world. Stop choosing to be angry when you can choose to love instead. Get out of the funk you’re in and enjoy life. It’s not about the money you have or don’t have, the car you have or don’t have, the house you may or may not want but it’s all about the genuineness of your heart. Quit holding on to what somebody did or said about you. Let it go. Eat the chocolate, buy that pair of shoes, skip the gym, read that book, take that long bath, sing loudly out of key; do whatever you want to do. Just stop complaining. Don’t complain because your circumstance could be a lot worse. And the bible says in Philippians 2:13-15 “For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases Him. 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.” I have a choice, chocolate or complaining and I chose the chocolate. What about you?

Daily Devotional – 12/8/15 “A relationship of two!”

If your relationship is open to allow anyone to comment on it, make suggestions, give you advice and you take it; then it’s an open relationship and you can’t get mad when others walk in it. A relationship is two people and it takes those two people to make it work. If you need to validate it on social media, there’s already a problem. If you have to vent to the world about it, it’s already in trouble. Please understand, you can’t take advice from a single person on how to keep your husband or wife happy, how would they know? If you have someone who has never been married trying to give you advice on how to stay married, run! That’s like me trying to tell the mechanic how to fix my car when I’ve never been greasy from going under the hood a day in my life. This is why you have to be careful who you listen too. Yes, I know they are in the church but that doesn’t mean they have all the answers. Oh, and if you think running your mouth to a beauty or barber shop full of folk about the good thing you got at home, think again.

Look, you have folk waiting to destroy your relationship simply because they don’t like you. You even have evil spirited folk and it’s what they do, daily. They can care less about the wife or husband at home; they are out to get what they can get while wiping the ‘happy’ smile from your face. But check this, the main issue you’re having is running your mouth. Folk only know what you tell them. **Side note, this is in no way referring to domestic abuse. If you are the victim of abuse of any kind; seek help immediately. ** Stop running to your momma’s house every time the two of you fight or have a disagreement, you forgive and they don’t. Stop calling folk on the phone every time something isn’t right; you forget and they don’t. You’ll have folk looking all upside your wife or husband’s head because of some stuff you told them when you should have kept quiet. Marriage and/or relationships are very hard but you can make them harder by adding your mess to it. Your marriage isn’t like your grandparents. Your relationship isn’t like your brother’s. Stop comparing them. This is the same when it comes to the relationship you have with your church. Stop bad mouthing it every time you don’t get your way. Learn how to keep home business at home and deal with it there.

“If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?” 1 Timothy 3:4

Daily Devotional – 12/7/15 “Want vs. Need!”

You may not get what you want but you’ll surely get what you need. Ask the lame man at the gate of Beautiful. He asked Peter and John for money but instead, he got healing. See, had they given him money; he would have been right back the next day begging again. But because Peter gave him his healing, he can now get up and work for a living. He didn’t get what he wanted but he got what he needed. It’s the same for somebody reading this. You’ve been bombarding God with prayers for something specific and it still hasn’t shown up. The enemy will make you think God isn’t listening when beloved, it’s the opposite. God is listening but He knows what you’re asking for, you aren’t ready for so He’ll give accordingly. What do I mean? Well, you asked Him to send you a part-time job but instead your current job start offering overtime. God knows you can’t handle the part-time job right now (plus it’ll take you away from worship). You ask God to send you a spouse but instead He allowed you to see the person standing in front of you to see if you’d give in to temptation. God isn’t testing you to fail but He’s simply trying to see if you’re ready.

Oh Saint, God doesn’t make failures and quitters yet we have to go through, sometime. God will not always give you what you want but He’ll supply you with what you need. You want a house but you need an apartment so that you can become a better steward of your money. You want a car note but what you really need is a bus pass because you didn’t keep up the maintenance on the last one you had (you’re not ready). You want a promotion but you need more training, what’s the sense of being promoted only to be demoted (wait your turn). You want to be a pastor but what you need to be is a preacher first. You want to be the leader but you really need to get following down first. You want to be loved but you need to learn how to love yourself. You want to go but you need to learn how to stay where you are, every once in a while. Please understand, sometimes your wants and needs may be on the same accord and sometime they won’t. But you need to realize that in God saying no, there’s a reason. Look for it in His delay because although you may not get what you want, God will definitely give you what you need.

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