Lakisha, the Author

It’s RELEASE day y’all

I don’t know about you but I’m excited! Excited for you to read the final book in the Ms. Nice Nasty Series, Ms. Nice Nasty 2. I’m excited that this is my seventh (7th) fiction novel. And I am excited that God still finds me favorable!

See, I never thought I would be an author yet here I am, nine books later. God is amazing! I owe Him all the credit because He was the one that deemed me worthy of a writing gift. Writing didn’t find me, it’s was created in my loins. God knew exactly who I’d be because He tells in Jeremiah 1:5, “He knew me before I was even formed in my mother’s womb.” Isn’t that great news!

Even when I didn’t see it in myself, it was there festering in my spirit. I’d feel it from time to time because it was growing in my belly. And some years later, at the appropriate time, I gave birth. Yes, I pushed out what was already inside of me. I tapped into part of my destiny. Writing isn’t my only destiny, it’s part of it and I am excited that you all get to share it with me.

So I invite each of you to download Ms. Nice Nasty 2. It’ll be available in paperback next week.

Click HERE to get your copy!

Thank you for the support!
–Happy Reading
Lakisha

Daily Devotional – 12/4/15 “Are you excited?”

I’m excited! Not just because my seventh fiction novel released today but I am excited at what God is doing in my life. Not only that but I am excited about what God is going to do, in my life. See, I’m excited about the fact that God is going to bless me. I’m excited about the doors that God will allow me to walk through. I’m excited about the tables He’s going to allow me to eat from. I’m excited about the places I’ve yet to even go. Why? Because as long as I hold out on the possibility that it can happen, I have something to look forward too. God told me if I ask Him, it shall be given so I get excited during my waiting. Beloved, sometimes we need to make our own selves excited. We should get excited when we think on what we ask God for, even if we’ve yet to receive it. We ought to be excited just knowing that God will. We ought to get exceedingly glad just knowing that God can. Why? Because He does and He never fails!

Yea, I could compile the long list of ‘you got this but want this’, things that should be, things that you’ve been praying for but haven’t got, I could probably tell you the numerous times you’ve knocked but haven’t gotten an answer but why do that? We all know what God is capable of, don’t we? We’ve seen Him work in others and for some of you, He’s worked on you too so why can’t we get excited for what we haven’t received yet? As long as I have assurance that it’ll be here, I’m excited. Some folks are excited right now that tax time is around the corner. Well, why can’t we be just as excited about the blessings that God has, around the corner? Why do we have to wait until it’s dropped in our lap? Baby, I don’t know about you but I get excited looking at my vision that’s about to come into fruition. I get excited when I sow the seed knowing that I’ll soon reap from its benefit. I get excited when I think about where God is going to take me. I get excited when I sit down and think on what He could have done but didn’t. We need to get to a place where we can get excited about this spiritual walk. It isn’t easy all the time but it’s surely worth it. I’m excited about God. I’m excited about what He’s done, getting ready to do and will do. What about you?

One More Day – Ms. Nice Nasty 2

Pss … Have you heard?

Ms. Nice Nasty 2 is releasing tomorrow! YAY!!!

Synopsis:

Didn’t your mother teach you that actions have consequences?

For Camille, her dream job has landed in her lap but it has come at the worst possible time in her life. Her already shaky marriage is crumbling before her eyes and she has to decide whether it’s worth saving. Add in her husband’s pregnant side chick and all the skeletons in her closet that are starting to peek out, she may be in over her head!

After accepting her new position, she’s looking to celebrate a silver lining in the chaos of her life but karma comes knocking, HARD. On the night of her party, she comes face to face with a gun and the last person she’d ever expect to be holding it. Now she has to get out, alive, without alerting the media and the ballroom full of people waiting downstairs?

She thought she could handle all the scandalous secrets she’d been hiding but when they all start coming out at once, she quickly realizes she’s dead wrong. Therapy hasn’t helped yet but will an unexpected death open her blinded eyes? Or will it be too late? Has her actions left her with more consequences than she can conquer or can she survive with her mind, marriage and career intact?

You can pre-order your copy now by clicking HERE.

I hope you will!
Please download, read and review!

–Happy Reading
Lakisha

Daily Devotional – 12/3/15 “Remodel, don’t tear down!”

You don’t have to tear folk down in order to build them up. You don’t have to destroy folk’s self-esteem and then act like you were encouraging them. You don’t have to criticize all the time, try showing them instead. It’s like remodeling a building, house or even an old car; sometimes the outside shell of what you’re rebuilding is good but the inside is tore up. So you don’t destroy the shell but you gut the inside. Why? Because the outside is good, the inside is what’s jacked up. Haven’t you been to a place that’s been remodeled? The outside is still the same but the inside is brand new. This is how, as God’s people, we have to be to one another. You don’t have to tear folk down on the outside, their problem is internal; start there. It’s even the same for self-remodeling. Stop with buying all the clothes, shoes and smell good fragrances to mask that your inside is rotting. Start from the inside and work your way out.

Sometimes, we need to do a self-remodel of ourselves because we’ve been blinded by the, ‘God knows my heart’ stigma too long. Yea, God may know your heart but does He know your voice? Beloved, we’ve got to get to a place in our spiritual lives where we stop running from whatever it is God is trying to do in our life. What does that mean? It means that it’s time for your overgrown self to grow up. It means it’s time for you to stop relying on Grandma’s praise and get your own. It means that it’s time you stop playing church. It means it’s time you fix yourself. It means that you may have to send yourself to rehab (physically and spiritually). It means its time you let go of the dope smoking and drinking every day. It means it’s time you put down the games and find a real job. It means you need to pull your pants up and your dresses down. It means you need to stop sexing everybody you meet. It means you stop being hellish all the doggone time. It means it’s time to remodel you, internally. Stop masking the hole in your heart with another person, deal with the real issue of why your relationships aren’t working. Stop covering up your tear-stained face and deal with why you’re crying. Stop hiding the bruises of abuse with clothes and makeup, seek help. Don’t tear down to rebuild yet encourage yourself to remodel.

-I’m a work in progress so pardon my dust.

“But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. Hebrews 3:13”

Daily Devotional – 12/2/15 “How are you living?”

Lookahere, I know you are striving to get to Heaven but you’ve got to be some earthly good, too. See, I can write every devotional on how good Heaven has been described (streets paved with gold, you got a mansion with the deed in your name, trees with fruit for the healing of your body, etc.) but if I don’t tell you about your living, on earth, how can you possible get there to see it? It’s not about how well you recite scriptures but it is about how real you are. It’s not about the degrees with your name on it but it’s about the degree you’re willing to go, to serve God in your assignment. It’s not about the money in the bank but it’s about the gratitude of your giving. It’s not about who you love but it’s all about how you love. Beloved, how can you expect to make it to see God when you don’t even take the time to make it to see grandma? How can you expect to worship all day in Heaven when you won’t even get up to worship on Sunday? How can you possibly be used later if you aren’t worth nothing now?

Chile, you’ve got to get it together. Stop with the, ‘I’ll go to church when I get myself together’ because it’ll never happen on your own. Break the, ‘I’ll do it and repent later’ because you’re becoming a sinful mess. Quit with, ‘if God bless me with this car, I’ll be in church every Sunday’ when you know it’s a bold face lie. Cut out the ‘the pastor just want all my money’ because tithes and offering is for the up keep of the church and building of the ministry. Notice I said tithes and offering, all that extra is a personal decision so don’t blame the messenger of God when that stuff was in place before he or she got there. All I’m saying is this, be worthy of who you are. I get it, folk ought to take you or leave you but beloved, there is a way to do and say all things. I don’t mind you not biting your tongue but watch your tone. I don’t mind you speaking your mind but mind what you say. There’s a way to criticize in love. The sad reality is, there’s a lot of ‘Christian’ folk on the list to hell, if you don’t get your stuff together. God isn’t pleased with our service or how we serve. Your devotion should remain to be the best in whatever position you play, in the body of Christ. Be worthy of who you are!

“Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter.” Matthew 7:21