Daily Devotional – 1/16/15 “Are you dependable?”


Are you dependable? Can you be counted on? When you are invited, can you be counted in the number? When something is planned, can you be penciled in? Are you reliable? Are you trustworthy? If God had to pick someone to be tested, could He choose you? Would your faith withstand the test? Would you be like Job and make it through? Even after friends walk off after a few days, would you stay? When your family can no longer hang in there with you, will you still stay? When folk holler at you to give up because it’s no longer worth it to them, will you still stay? Can God depend on you? I find it strange that as Saints of God being in God, walking in this Christian way of life; we are all for the bless part of righteous living yet we throw in the towel at the first sign of trouble. I mean, we are all in the ship with God when the weather is good; the sun is shining and the cool air is blowing but baby as soon as the storm hits, the boat starts rocking, the water begins hitting against the side of the boat and it seems like we are about to sink; we start looking for a way out. Yea, when times are good we barely seek God, rarely talk to Him and don’t even look for us to come to worship service but let financial trouble hit, sickness start attacking our body or a close family member, child start acting crazy, marriage get in trouble or hell creep in your home; can’t nobody in the house beat you praying.


Why can’t God get the same dependability from us in and out of trouble? Isn’t He worth it? Doesn’t He come see about us in and out of trouble? Isn’t He dependable? When we call Him, doesn’t He come? When we seek Him, can He not be found? Yet God is still saying today like Jesus said to the disciples in Matthew 9:37, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.” Don’t you get it? There are so many among us that are sick, heavy with burdens, depressed, suicidal, addicted to whatever, going through things in their own homes, dealing with things on their jobs and this is in the church; God needs dependable people who are willing to work for Him to help His people. There are more Saints suffering than sinners because sinners are living in their sins yet Saints are trying to cover theirs up. It’s time out y’all. More Saints are going to hell, more Saints are being used by the enemy and more of them are in the church doing it! This has got to stop. God needs dependable folk who are willing to do His will and He needs us now. Are you dependable? Can you be counted on? Can God depend on you? If you have to think about the answer to these questions, right now is a good time to change.

Daily Devotional – 1/15/15 “Oh Faith!”

As Saints of God, you will sometimes get to a discouraging point but don’t tarry at the point of giving up long enough to actually want to give up. Yea, there will be times where the hell you’re going through will seem like it’s too hard for you but that’s only to test your faith. Yea, there will be times your burdens will get heavy but that’s only to test the strength of your legs. Yea, your spirit will be tested by the enemy who has camped out in your home, church or job but that’s just to test to see if your spirit is true. Yea, your heart will be tested with hurt by family, friends and folk who said they’d never hurt you but that’s only to see if you can forgive like you say you can. Yea, you’ll be tested when the job lays you off but that’s only to see if you’ll trust in God like you say you do. Yea, your health will be tested with the sicknesses and diseases of this world but that’s only to see if your faith will sustain in the one true healer. Yea, your finances may not always make it like you want them too but that’s only to see if you’ll trust in the provider who says He’ll never leave you nor forsake you. Yea, there will be times you’ll want to give up but that’s the time when you are supposed to give your hand in to God. Will you pass it over or will you forfeit your chance?

My cousin asked me the question last night, how can she walk in unshakeable faith when the devil is trying to shake her faith. But you know what I told her, let your faith shake just don’t let it drop! This is putting on a brave face! It’s like getting on a roller coaster. You know there is going to be an ending point soon but while you’re riding, you have to go through twists and twirls that cause you to close your eyes, some drops that cause you to yell out and some dips that cause your stomach to drop but once you feel it coming to an end and it finally coast to a stop and you open your eyes, you realize God has done it again! For Jesus is pleading for us like He did for Simon in Luke 22:32 saying, “But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.” Baby, God is doing; will do and has done it for us time and time again! All we have to do is ride this thang out. Yes, our faith may shake but don’t drop it and don’t allow it to lose its power. It will do its part; all we have to do is hold on to it. “For we live by believing and not by seeing.” 2 Corinthians 5:7!

Daily Devotional – 1/14/15 “Change your mindset!”

If you woke up this morning and only had what you thanked God for on yesterday, what would you have? If you got up this morning and only had what you gave God praise for on yesterday, would you have everything you need to make it on today? I don’t mean the bare necessities like air, oxygen, water but I mean the simple things that you take for granted like seeing, walking, talking and being alive or the blessing of being able to hug your child who isn’t hooked up to machines or buried. Or maybe it’s the blessing of having your mother because someone just buried theirs after months of watching them suffer. Or maybe it’s the blessing of having your spouse because someone is replaying memories of theirs. Or maybe it’s the blessing of having a job because someone has been praying for one after being laid off for months. Please understand, I get it; you are entitled to have a bad moment but don’t allow it to turn into a bad day which then turns into a bad week, month and then lifetime.

When you change your mind, when you change your attitude, when you change your expectancy; things change! If you already have your mind made up that your day is going to be bad, it is. When you wake up with the thought that “I got up on the wrong side of the bed,” you are already headed in the wrong direction. When you get to your job and you have already talked yourself into going in with an attitude of displeasure, that’s what you go in with. Baby, I don’t give a flying flip who you work with; they don’t make you who you are. You should go in with joy, if you are of God because He is joy and share Him with them and just maybe you might just rub Him off on some of them. Stop allowing folk to change who you are. Worship services aren’t even the same anymore because folk are so busy worried about other folk’s praise that they can’t even praise themselves but baby when you start walking in God’s house with an attitude of praise already on your lips, a dance praise already on your feet and a shout of praise in your spirit; you won’t care about nobody but you and God. When you stop worrying about folk and start worshipping; you’ll see the difference in your life. You are entitled to have a moment but don’t tarry there long. Change your mindset and it might just change your moment! “And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Philippians 4:8”

Daily Devotional – 1/13/15 “Spiritual battle!”

Getting over the flu has been something! I mean, it comes quickly, quietly and attacks your entire body and even with medicine, afterwards it still takes time to fully get yourself back together. I tell y’all, I haven’t been this sick in a while and it’s taking me a minute because it has me feeling out of sorts, off my game and not myself and I don’t like that feeling. But then I realized this morning, that this feels almost like being in a spiritual battle for the bible tells us in Ephesians 6:12, “For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.” Oh ok! See, here we are thinking we are doing something when we got to fight folk that are standing in our faces but they aren’t nothing compared to the ones we have to fight that we can’t see. Those are the ones we need to be preparing ourselves for. Yet you are too busy worried about a man who cheated on you, a woman who walked off and left you, church folk who said something about you, friends who didn’t call when you were sick, who didn’t show up when momma died, who didn’t text when your dog ran off, who didn’t congratulate you on your new job or post on your wall for your birthday but baby who got time to worry about that, we are in a spiritual battle!

You don’t have time to fight folk when you got a spiritual battle that is already waged against you. Who cares what folk are saying about you, let them talk. Who cares what they call you, just be mindful of what you answer too. Who cares that they say you’d never amount to nothing, keep adding up what they keep subtracting. Folks say all the time, how can she be a minister of God’s word and write fiction books yet I don’t entertain that mess because God gave me both gifts and He gives me full range of both. See, folk will talk you out your gift IF YOU LISTEN! All I am saying is this, as Saints of Gods on this Christian walk; we have a lot to deal with. This is why we have to stay prayed down, studied up, praised filled and shout ready. The enemy is a spiritual war that we have to fight every moment and we can’t fight it if we don’t know how to spot him and if we aren’t ready. Stop being off your game! Get up ready to fight. How do you do this? It’s simple, by lying down at night ready to fight. But you have to get yourself in order first and then get your house in order. You can’t be ready to fight a spiritual war if you are fighting within yourself and then in your home. If your house is already chaotic the enemy slides in and you don’t even notice. However there is hope because just like the flu, you can beat the battle but you have to fight. And when it’s over, you’ll be back to like you were and there’ll be no evidence that the flu I mean that you were even in a battle because now you are victorious!

Daily Devotional – 1/12/15 “Stop being a hostage!”

Stop being a hostage! Stop being held bondage by your past! Stop being held prisoner by the things you’ve allowed to happen in your life. Stop being a victim now that you’ve made it out of the crime scene. You do know that you aren’t a hostage if the person holding you doesn’t have the key to lock you down, right? So why are you still there? I said this yesterday but you do know that the enemy only uses your past because He can’t touch your present neither can he even get close to your future so why are you listening to him? Baby, all he got to use against you is your past and you’re letting that get the best of you? Haven’t you overcome any of what you used to be? Then what you used to do shouldn’t matter and who you used to be shouldn’t even sound familiar. But you’ve got to get to a point where you no longer want to be held hostage to your past. When you’re ready to get out of that holding cell, you will. When you’re ready to move pass where you used to be, you’ll find out it’s an entire path called where I can be waiting on you.

I don’t have to tell you what the enemy’s job is, you should know this already. But let me tell you this. The past doesn’t have hands to put you in bondage; you bound yourself with the thoughts of your past. All the enemy does is feed off the negative energy that is coursing through your spirit and it builds. You sit at home thinking about the mistakes you made in the past and you start dwelling on them and here comes the enemy because he’s never far and because you called him. Oh, you did. With your woe is me attitude, that’s the cry of the enemy and he comes and he comes with a vengeance. Yet the question is…what are you whining about? What is it about your past can you change now? What mistake can you go back and undo? Why are you allowing it to hold you hostage now? When will you get out of the past? When will you walk out of that prison that you’ve sentenced yourself too? Haven’t you realized that you are missing your present and that you’ve yet to even tap into your future? When you let go of the past, I mean really let go of the past and everything associated with it; then will you begin to move. Stop being a hostage to things and people who don’t have a key or the means to lock you down!

“No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. Philippians 3:13-14”