Daily Devotional – 5/6/15 “Who are you hooked too?”

When your car battery is dead, you hook it up to another battery that is full of life for a charge. When your electronic device dies or is dying, you plug it into an electrical outlet to recharge its battery – it gets hooked back up. When your tire is low, you hook an air hose onto the tire to re-pump it full of air. When man is on the verge of death, life saving measures is sometimes taken in the form of them being hooked up to machines that breathes for them. When you’re in heart surgery, you’re hooked up to a heart bypass machine that keeps your body alive while your heart is being worked on. When you’re addicted to something, you’re hooked on it. When you can’t get enough of someone, you’re hooked on them. When you go fishing and you catch a fish, it takes the bait; it’s caught on your hook … What am I trying to say? Well, you need to be careful who and what you hook up too. Yea, Psalm 1:1 says, “Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers.” See, not only are you blessed by what you do but you’re also blessed by the company you keep. You need to be careful who you hook up with! Who are you hooking up with? 2 Corinthians 6:14 says, “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?”

Yea, I know you’re trying to show yourself friendly but baby; you’ve got to be careful who you hook up with. It’s like buying a cheap charger for your expensive phone, they won’t all work. Haven’t you seen the warning that comes up on the iPhone when you plug just any charger into it? It’ll say, “This accessory may not be supported,” well that’s how some folk and things are to our spirit, “They may not be supported!” This is why you have to be careful who you allow to hook up to your spirit. Yea, I know you want everybody to go with you but beloved, everybody won’t make the cut, everybody can’t handle your elevation, everybody can’t take it – they may not support your spirit! My God! You’ve got to be able to unplug before it overloads you and then you’ve got to be alright with it. What’s the sense of constantly having something plugged in that’s draining your spirit? What’s the sense of consistently having something hooked up to you that’s not replenishing your power? Chile, you’d better learn who you need to be hooked up with. The greatest power source there is to have is God. He, who can recharge, refreshes, restores and renews you all in one sitting. For Isaiah 40:29 says, “He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless.” Be careful who you hook up with!

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Daily Devotional – 5/5/15 “The enemy of confusion!”

The enemy got you so confused this morning. Yea, he has you thinking that nothing you are doing will succeed, that nothing you set out to do will prosper, he has your mind playing tricks on you, got you going through your spouse’s stuff and he even has you thinking crazy thoughts; that’s his job. You got up this morning messy as hell and that’s because you laid down last night with the enemy attached to your back. You got to the job with your attitude on ten because you’ve allowed the enemy to ride shotgun. You posting all your business on Facebook because the enemy is on your shoulder beckoning you to do it and like a fish, you took the bait! Baby, God doesn’t work in confusion; He doesn’t even abide in confusion so why are you allowing the enemy to confuse your life? The enemy needs you to sabotage your relationship, he needs you to fail at your job, he needs you to flunk out of class, he needs you to take that drink after you’ve been sober 30 days, he needs you to smoke that weed after you’ve been clean for 3 months, he needs you to shut your bible after you’ve been committed to studying the word, he needs you to buy those shoes after you’ve been faithfully paying your tithes, he needs you to bad mouth the pastor, he needs you to turn folk away from the church, he needs you to cause hell in the church and he needs you working for him – that’s his job! The enemy’s job is to cause hell and confusion in our lives, daily.

Oh but wait, hold on because there is good news; great news actually for the bible tells us there are ways to get the enemy to leave us the hell alone. Yea! For the bible says in James 4:7, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” – This means we must submit our entire being to God, not part but every part of us. We can’t have part of ourselves in the world and part of ourselves in God because then the part of us that is in the world, the enemy will then think belongs to him. Ephesians 6:11 says, “Put on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil.” Now, please understand, this doesn’t mean physical armor but this is spiritual armor because our battle isn’t physical. God’s word says we need the belt of truth (your word) around your waist, breastplate of righteousness (honesty) on your chest, feet ready to go at all times, a shield of faith (that’s trust), a helmet of salvation (that’s deliverance) and a sword of the Spirit (that’s God’s word). (Ephesians 6:14-17). Baby, we have to have God’s word so embedded in us that every time we get ready to fight the enemy it knocks him out before he even gets close enough to do us harm. We have to be so ready for the enemy that it makes him cringe when you turn over in the middle of the night. This is why we need to get back to studying God’s word y’all because Ephesians 6:12 says, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms,” – this is the enemy! The enemy is confusion and he is running rampant in our minds at this very moment and if we don’t do something about it we will lose every time. We need spiritual boot camp – you ready?

Daily Devotional – 5/4/15 “How’s your light?”

Here we are at the beginning of a new month, the fifth month of 2015; look around you’ve made it. A lot of people didn’t make it yet you’re one of the few who did. Isn’t that something? With your messy self, God spared your life. With your mean self, God allowed you to live. With your unforgiving self, He pardoned you. With your non-tithe paying, mouth always on the Pastor or the church self yet God allowed you to see another promised day. With your hand always out but never helping self, God still gave you another portion of health. With your gossiping self but here you are. And what are you doing with this new day you’ve been given? What are you doing with this new chance you’ve been granted? What are you doing with this fresh anointing you’ve been covered in? What are you doing with your life? Oh, I bet you got up with the same ole jacked up attitude you laid down with, didn’t you? You probably got up like the world owe you something, huh? Are you still toiling over that person who left you? Baby, they weren’t yours, stop allowing them to come and go when they please. Are you still depressed because that job laid you off? When are you going to stop wallowing in that pit long enough to see the blessing that God has for you? Still trying to get yourself together before you get back in church? You do know you can’t do it alone, don’t you? God is simply waiting on you to allow Him to do it.

All I am trying to get you to see is this … Time is passing you by and it’s moving swiftly! Either you get your life or you’ll still be singing the same song this time next year with no changes. Don’t you know, haven’t you heard; God isn’t pleased with the current state of His children. Youth are dying which mean parents are burying their children, men are sleeping with men and women are sleeping with women, church has become convenient when it’s actually necessary, we don’t study our bibles anymore because most of us don’t even carry them now (smart phones have replaced them) and if we aren’t studying that means our children aren’t being taught; we don’t sing songs that have real meaning and our devotion is to materialistic stuff and not our salvation and we idolize those who have passed on yet we don’t worship our God who is living – God isn’t pleased! We’ve got to get back to being about our Father’s business and that’s being disciples of His word. It is our duty as Saints of God to save the unsaved and we do this through teaching of His word, through our giving and through our living. This is why the bible says in Matthew 5:16, “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” The light this verse is talking about is God that is in you (us). God should be so in you (us) that it shines bright enough for everybody to see. Can they?

Daily Devotional – 5/1/15 “I am troubled!”

If I live to see tomorrow, God will allow me to see 38 years of life; it’s one I don’t take for granted. Yet as I look at the state of our world, I am troubled. I am troubled by the fact that we are burying more children that are dying by violence. I am troubled by the fact that police officers are killing more than they are protecting. I am troubled by the fact that domestic violence is on the rise. I am troubled by the fact that women are finding it cool to be misused and abused, portrayed as worthless when God has made your value more than that of rubies and would rather live in hell than find peace in your own home. I am troubled by the fact that our men are diminishing their power as being our king, our protector, the head of their home and would rather run the streets with their pants sagging or post pictures with gangs and drug paraphernalia. I am troubled by the fact that we are raising children in this society to think that it’s ok to be disrespectful because they see their parents being disrespectful. I am troubled by the fact that we don’t value our relationship with God like we should, we don’t love like we could and we don’t help like Jesus would. I am troubled! I am troubled that our churches are empty yet the clubs are overflowing. I am troubled that parent meetings are not being attended by parents and our children are failing. I am troubled that we are only using God when we need Him and not praising Him when we have Him. I am troubled. I am troubled that we feel the need to burn our communities to solve problems yet we won’t voice our concerns, vote the problem out or the solution in. I am troubled that we are quick to judge those who make a mistake yet we won’t pick them up. I am troubled that Christians are the harshest judges yet are the ones doing the most sinning. I am troubled!

Father God, as I come petitioning your throne today; God, I come asking you for peace in our trouble land. God, we need you down here to tear down walls of violence, hate, and anger. God we need you to strike the hands of those who seek to do your people harm. Oh God, right now in this land and country, we need you. God, destroy the chains of bondage that has been wrapped around your people by way of generational curses. Destroy alcoholism, drug addiction, depression, suicidal thoughts, peer pressure and any attempt by the enemy that sets out to kill your people. God, heal the hearts of those who have been affected by violence so that they may forgive. Then God forgive those who have taken the lives of someone; forgive them Father for they know not what they are doing. Oh, God; our land is suffering and we need you to come and see about us. We need peace, healing, joy, love and understanding in this troubled land, God, send it like only you can. Heal our children; strengthen the parents and grandparents, uncles and aunts; so that they can be greater in their raising. I am standing in the gap on today God, crying out to you for healing of our land; come and see about your people. We need you here. Amen.

2 Chronicles 7:14, “If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”