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”

Lakisha Johnson – Girls Will Be Girls #GWBG

Happy New Year!! I hope and pray that everyone’s New Year will be greater than you could ever imagine it to be!

As we journey into 2015 I want to take this time to invite the women who follow my blog to this exciting event that I am a part of. It is a ministry called Girls Will Be Girls (#GWBG). This ministry is simply an empowerment and exhortation movement for young ladies and women of all ages designed to help excite the passion that we know already resides on the inside of you. No, this isn’t a male bashing sorority but it’s simply a ministry that says Girls Will Be Girls and on January 31, 2015 from 8am to 2pm, I would like for you to be my guest. The tickets are $35 per person yet the purchase will be well worth it. There are great sessions lined up and great speakers, vendors, give-a-ways and food.

You can purchase your tickets through eventbrite by clicking HERE or for groups of 7 or more, the ticket price is $25 per person; email me at authorlakisha@gmail.com and I can have the invoice sent to you.

GWBG Summit

We also have a 30 day challenge going on that started January 1, 2015. If you would like to sign up for the challenge, please click the link HERE and fill out the form and you will be added to the challenge. All you need is a journal and the committment. 30 Day Challenge


Please let me know! I will love it for you to be a part!

#GWBG – If God Will Be God surely Girls Will Be Girls!!

Daily Devotional – 1/5/15 “How do you know?”

It’s the first Monday of the New Year, have you kept any of the resolutions you made or have they passed in the night like the rain? Oh, you thought this was your year too, huh? Well, I got some news for you and I need you to read the next line very carefully, it is but you’ve got to get up! It’s like this … You can’t keep working on the plan because now it’s time for you to put the plan into action. You can’t keep working on your marriage, now it’s time to stop working and start doing something to keep it working. It’s time for you stop working on the building and open it up for business. Aren’t you done writing the vision yet? When will the vision gain some merit? I mean, when are you going to stop working on the car and actually put some wheels on it to drive? How will a mechanic know if the works he’s done is complete if he doesn’t test drive the car? How can the air condition man know if the air conditioner works, if he doesn’t turn it on? How can the plumber know if the toilet works if he doesn’t flush?

Oh Saint of God, how do you know if your faith in God works if you never put it into action? How do you know if prayer works if you never use it? How do you know that God can heal, if you’ve never asked Him to heal you? Yea, I know you heard me say He healed me but don’t you want to try Him? How do you know what’s on the other side of the door if you won’t knock to open it? How do you know what will be on the other side of your storm if you won’t go through? How do you know what you can handle if you won’t handle anything? How do you know what you can stand if you keep sitting down? Don’t you want to know what victory feels like? Somebody is on the edge of giving up but baby, it ain’t your time yet. Step back! It isn’t time for you to give up. I’m praying for you. I don’t have to call your name, know your situation, be in the same room or even in the same state yet I’m praying for you; it ain’t time for you to give up! You’re fighting against God because your house isn’t together and you think it is but it isn’t. And all He’s doing is waiting for you to give it to Him but it has to be done at His house! It’s not your time to give up or give in. How do you know what you’re capable of, if you never tried it?

Daily Devotional – 1/2/15 “It’s a New Year!”

We made it! Yes, we as in you and me! We made it to 2015! Oh, I know you made it because you’re reading this. Are you happy? Is your New Year happy or did you wake up on 1/1/15 the same way you laid down on 12/31/14? Did you bring into the New Year the same mess, the same old jacked up attitude, the same anger, the same unforgiving spirit, the same lying tongue, the same hurting hands, the same stealing mentality, the same this is my church spirituality; in other words the same you? Or have you changed yet? Did you make the resolutions and start them or did you do that because that’s what everybody else is doing? Are you still crying over the things that you’ve lost or are you ready to allow God to give you something new? Are you ready to move now or are you ok with wandering in the wilderness alone? Yes, I understand that you’re in a storm now, that you’re going through something but baby it’s not to punish you; God doesn’t work like that. However you do need to understand this … In order for us to reap the benefits of God’s blessings, we also have to reap the benefits of His suffering. Romans 8:17 says this, “And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.”

Beloved, I know that you want the storm to end but don’t rush it because then you won’t be prepared. Have you ever rushed through studying only to find that you weren’t prepared for the final test and then you failed? This is the same way. God doesn’t allow us to go through anything that will intentionally hurt us yet He allows us to go through everything to strengthen us but we have to go through it. How can you tell me your testimony if it’s unfinished? How can you tell me how to get over, if you didn’t make it? How can you tell me how to shout my way through when your voice can’t go above a whisper? How can you tell me how to dance my way out when I’ve seen your shoes and they don’t have any scuff marks? How can you tell me the wounds of being stabbed in the back heal, when I’ve checked your back and I don’t see any? How can you tell me prayer works when I’ve never heard you pray? You got to go through, even if it means starting the New Year in your storm yet I decree that your year won’t end in one but that can only be determined by your faith. You have 363 more days to change the outcome. What will it be?

Happy New Year!