Daily Devotional – 2/28/15 “Your source!”

When a person is on the brink of death, they’re hooked up to a life support machine – it helps them.

When a car battery needs a boost, you hook it up to another battery that works – it gives it a new charge.

When your electronic device’s battery is low, you plug it into a power source – it refills the battery.

When your heart stops, a defibrillator is attached – it can start the heart back to beating.

My point is … If you’re hooked up to the right thing at the right time, it’ll do you some good. So, what are you hooked up too? Or should I ask, who are you hooked up too?

Happy Saturday! Be blessed!

Daily Devotional – 2/27/15 “God is there!”

Somebody woke up on this Friday feeling like a failure, wiping tears of woe, holding their chest because the enemy has been walking through your dreams, overwhelmed by your burdens and heavy laden by your hurts because fear got you thinking that God isn’t hearing your prayers. Yea, you’re thinking that you’re in this thang alone, that God couldn’t possibly hear your voice from the valley you’re in, He wouldn’t dispatch angels to come to save you one more time, that He wouldn’t knock the dust off of you this time after pulling you out of that pit or even that He wouldn’t forgive for backsliding to the place you said you’d never go again … oh but … Baby, God is only allowing you to dwell in your dark place so that you can practice your war cry. (I can’t hear you!) God is only allowing you to wander in the wilderness so that you can get used to the space you’ll have when He enlarges your territory. (Are you walking?) God is only allowing you to see what the bottom looks like so that you’ll never want to go back there. (Have you seen enough?) God allowed you to go into the pit because couldn’t nobody else go with you in order for you to get used to going by yourself sometime. (That’s what it’ll feel like when folk walk off, you ready now?)

Beloved, God hasn’t left you; He may be quiet but He hasn’t left, keep walking. Haven’t you noticed that when you use your GPS to get to an unknown destination, it’s quiet unless you veer off course; God is the same way. As long as you’re doing what you need to do; keep walking, keep praying and add fasting; God will be there as your guide. Stop allowing the enemy, the naysayers, the sideline hecklers, the unholy and even those that act like they are Holier than thou to have you second guessing your place. God is right there for you and He’ll be there each and every time!

Daily Devotional – 2/26/15 “Get out of your complacency!”

Are you content with your current condition? Are you satisfied with the surviving state of your spiritual status? Are you happy with the happenings in your home? Are you pleased with the present proceedings you’re participating in? Are you joyous on your job? Are you rejoicing in your relationship? Are you content? I’m simply asking if you are happy. You do know that being content is a reward within itself, don’t you? For the bible says in 1 Timothy 6:6 “Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth.” Oh, but you’ve probably become so comfortable in conforming that now you’ve become complacent and in your logic of thinking, you’re happy and can no longer see the difference in you being content and complacent but let me tell you! See, being content means to be happy and although being complacent means happy too, it also means to be comfortable in a situation. Oh but get this … Being complacent means that you get so comfortable that you no longer think you can get caught or caught up! Yea, it’s like you being comfortable and happy in your sin that now you’ve forgotten that the act you’re performing is actually a sin until you get caught up. You’ve gotten so complacent walking into the mall, stealing them folks stuff that it’s second nature to you until you’re the feature star in Just Busted on Tuesday. Get out of your complacency!

I know that’s your family church but baby it may be time for you to go. I know you’ve been trying to hold on to that relationship out in public but behind closed doors it’s a war zone, it’s time to let it go. Philippians 4:11 says this, “Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.” This didn’t say to be complacent, this says in every situation to be content… HAPPY! Stop putting on a show for folk when God is still waiting on you to show up for Him. Stop staying in a comfortable place because your fears have subsided there, step outside of your comfort zone, God has a new position waiting for you over there. Your happiness is over there, your contentment is over there, your piece of mind is over there, your joy is over there, your healing is over there and that breakthrough is over there! Get out of your complacency and get your contentment! Get out of your comfort and get your happiness. I know your boo has made it comfortable and you’re complacent but baby if he can’t wife you, stop letting him take your life! (He who finds a wife …) I know you’ve been trying to make the marriage work but if she can’t have your back, why are you waiting to pack. (God made woman to be a helpmate …) My God! Somebody needs to be hoped today! Get out of your complacency in order to get your happiness back.

Daily Devotional – 2/25/15 “Hasten to God’s throne!”

I wonder why we, as children of God, don’t hasten to our Father’s throne. Why don’t we petition His throne more or why don’t we hasten to ask of Him things when the bible says in Hebrews 4:16 “Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” I mean, hasten is defined as to do something in a hurry or to make something happen quickly and as I was sitting here pondering on something to write about, this thought just happened to drop into my spirit. Why don’t we hasten more to God’s throne? We find it so easy to grumble but we won’t get up, we play the pity part but won’t pray, we say we are hurt yet we won’t hasten to the throne of grace and mercy where our help lies! What is going on? Ephesians 3:12 says, “Because of Christ and our faith in him, we can now come boldly and confidently into God’s presence,” yet we wait, why? I don’t know about you but I need the favor of God to rest upon me because I’ve found that God’s favor helps with the labor I have to sometime endure. Yea! See, the favor of God can open doors I didn’t even know existed. The favor of God can take my feet to places I didn’t even think I belonged. The favor of God can place my name in the mouths of folk I don’t even know knew me. The favor of God can promote me when man says I should be demoted. The favor of God can sometimes take away the labor all together and yet we won’t even hasten to His throne to get it.

Why won’t we hasten? We say we need rest but Jesus says in Matthew 11:28, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” We say God isn’t answering but have you asked lately when the bible says in Luke 11:9, “And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.” We say we believe, we say we have faith but then we get scared to step when we see the enemy looming when the bible says in Luke 10:19, “Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. Nothing will injure you.” Why won’t we hasten to God’s throne? Why won’t we hasten to petition God for what we need when He has it all? Where is our faith? It’s time we changed the lyrics to our song to this …“I love the Lord, He heard my cry and pitied every groan, long as I live and troubles rise, I’ll hasten to His throne!” We might not get another chance.

Daily Devotional – 2/24/15 “Is your change evident?”

There’s this old gospel song titled, New Life that says, “I’ve moved from my old house and I’ve moved from my old friends and I’ve moved from my old way of life; thank God I moved out, to a brand new life!” (I know you’re singing it!) The second verse says, “He changed my old way with words, He changed my old narrow mind and He changed my heart and gave me a new start. Thank God I moved out to a brand new life.” Then the chorus says, “Can’t you see I’m a new man, don’t you know I’ve got a new name and one day I’ll live in a brand new land? Thank God I’ve moved out to a brand new life.” Baby, that’ll preach … if we, as Saints of God, could honestly say the lyrics of this song. But the reality of today is; folks can hardly tell the difference between the just and the unjust; the saved and the unsaved. Be honest, can folk see the change in you? Is it evident in your walk, your talk, in the way you live and in how you give? Are you approachable by someone unsaved? Could that mouth of yours save someone unsaved or could your hands help someone in need? I know you’ve been a baptized believer since you were 13 but what have you done lately to further the kingdom of God?

Now, get this … In order to change, you have to first change your way of thinking. Yea, it doesn’t make sense to change your shoes if you still like to play in mud. It makes no sense to say you don’t smoke any more yet you’re still in the midst of smokers or you quit drinking but you’re the bartender. You can’t say you’ve stop cheating when you’re still accepting his or her calls or text. Change your thinking and then, if need be; change your friends. Yea, I get it; they’ve been with you, your ride or die but if they can’t get with the change you’ve made, change them! At some point, you’ve got to get in the race and off the sideline, one of these days you’ve got to put the plan into action, and soon you’ll have to turn the close sign around to open and be about the change! When will you (we)? God needs folk on His side who are willing to work for Him. Haven’t you seen the news? Folk need saving y’all and they aren’t making it to church, we’ve got to get into the streets, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Too many children are dying without knowing God because their parents are living without knowing Him. This has got to change. We’ve got to change. We’ve got to be saved every day of the week and not just Sunday in order for us to make it to the new life. Is your change evident?