Daily Devotional – 11/17/14 “Let go!”

I knew when I accepted my calling into ministry that the enemy would amp up his attack towards me (it’s his job) and I knew that relationships between some folk would change and that some wouldn’t accept the change in me (I was expecting it) but man! I’m used to the enemy, I can handle him so he tries to attach himself to my children and use them but it won’t prosper. Not on my watch. The change I witness in folk, well I can’t do anything about them but pray because I’ve been given a mission and I won’t stop now! My uncle said on yesterday that sometimes you have to say “to hell with it” to certain things and that’s what I’m doing today. I am sending the devil, his attacks, the obstacles that’s trying to cause me to stumble, the non-support, the let downs, the hurt and everything else that means me no good; all back to the pits of hell from where it came.

See, I’ve come to realize that in order for you to give up on stuff it has to either be too hard for you to handle or to stressful and the enemy uses that. He will beat you over the head with it, he will make your life a living hell and he will take you to the point of throwing in the towel but don’t! I’ve shared this scripture before and I even shared it in my sermon on yesterday and it fits here for Psalm 34:19-20 says, “The righteous person faces many troubles but the Lord comes to the rescue each time. For the Lord protects the bones of the righteous; not one of them is broken?” But you have to be righteous. Please get this … I didn’t say perfect but I said righteous, which means morally good and upright. Colossians 2:7 defines it as this, “So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness,” because if you live in God, you’ll be righteous. I know that you may not understand it but go through it; it’ll all make sense soon. You may not see your way but walk on, there’s some light up ahead. You may not see anyone in your corner but know that someone is praying for you. I don’t know what you’re facing but hold on; it won’t last because everything has an expiration date. Don’t believe me? Look around even ink dries up in a pen. You’ve been fighting the same people, the same issue; the same battle for a long time now and nothing has changed yet, let it go. It’s not yours to fight! Sometimes you have to let go and let God!

Daily Devotional – 11/14/14 “Tell God thank you!”


Tell God thank you because it could be worse – all you have to do is look at someone around you and you’ll see that someone is going through something you couldn’t even imagine going through.


Tell God thank you because it should be worse – especially if it was based on our merits! Think about it. Some of us didn’t thank God when we got up this morning, we didn’t say grace over the food we ate, we take for granted the clean air we breathe, the water we don’t have to boil before we use it, the education we can freely choose, the prison we aren’t bound too, the hospital bed that doesn’t have our afflicted bodies in it or the headstone that doesn’t have our name stretched across it and yet we still wonder how it should be worse? Humph!


Tell God thank you regardless of your situation – because God doesn’t use it to bless you, He blesses you in spite of. 1 Thessalonians 5:18, “Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.”


Ephesians 5:20 says, “And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”


Tell God thank you no matter what because He’ll reward you for your effort!

Daily Devotional – 11/13/14 “What will you tell God?”

I am often reminded, by turning on the TV or scrolling through my Facebook news feed that the expiration of one’s life can be up at any time. Yet, isn’t it quite sad that most of us aren’t ready to die but we call ourselves Christians? It’s not that we aren’t ready because we haven’t lived but we aren’t ready because we haven’t done the things necessary to prepare our place in eternity. Yes, you’ve confessed your belief in God. Yes, you’ve been saved. Yes, you’ve been baptized. And yes, you probably even go to church but what else? Have you done your part in saving those who are lost? Have you done your part loving like you should? Have you done your part helping where you could? Have you kept the commandments or repented when you haven’t? Have you learned from your mistakes or do you sin and repent only to sin again? If God appeared to you now and told you that you had until midnight to put your affairs in order, would that be enough time? Would you be able to tell God, at judgment that you asked somebody to go to church with you or only to the club? Will you be able to tell God you invited someone to bible study with you or was that the bar? Will you be able to tell God you prayed for someone and not preyed on them? Will you be able to tell God you laid hands on someone for healing and not laid hands for hurting? Will you be able to tell God you pick someone up or will you look away when you realize you pushed them instead? What will you tell God?

I don’t know if you realize this or not but its action time Saints! After we get through praying, its time for us to get up and anoint with oil, pray these demons out of children and some of the parents. Its time we get back to blessing our churches, homes and place of business. Its time we start and end with pray. It’s time we get back to the altar prayers where folk were actually healed because faith did it. It’s action time! It’s time to raise up a nation that is about God’s business because the world is suffering and we are losing, it shouldn’t be this way! God already made us victorious before we even step foot in the battle but it’s up to us to be victorious when we come out! What will you tell God?

Daily Devotional – 11/12/14 “God isn’t pleased!”

What’s the sense of being put together on the outside but you’re tore up on the inside? Yea, what’s the point of having your clothes and hair on point if your heart is jacked up? Don’t you realize that no matter how you try to hide the fact that your attitude is rude, it still shows? I get it, you had a bad night and although you try to cover it with a smile, it shows the moment you open your mouth. Oh, I’m sure the bed is sick of being blamed for the way you treat folk when you consistently lie about getting up on the wrong side of the bed when the truth of the matter is, it’s the same side you’ve been sleeping on since you were three. My point is; while you are trying to dress up for folk, God is reading your heart and He isn’t pleased with the report. You put up the façade that everything is good when you plaster that smile on, for folk, yet at home you’re drinking more tears than water. God isn’t pleased. You’re too ashamed to tell someone that you’re suffering until depression has you bound, broken and bruised. God isn’t pleased. When will you stop running?

I am new to having the title of minister but I am not new to ministry because God has been using me for as long as I can remember and I am tired of the shape Christians are in. I am tired of the way Preachers are handling their roles and I am tired of the way Saints are handling theirs because we all play a part. God isn’t pleased! The bible says in James 5:14, “Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord,” yet now days, you can’t even trust folk to lay hands on you because you don’t know if their heart is genuine and where their hands have been. The bible says in Hebrews 3:13, “But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness,” but instead we’d rather tear one another down. But don’t you know that this same scripture picks up in Hebrews 3:14 and says, “For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.” Yet how can we share in everything that belongs to God when He isn’t pleased with us and the way we are? We have to get it together y’all. I don’t know about you but I need God, I long to have Him because without Him, I am nothing. I am not perfect but I am a work in progress and as a work in progress, you should see some evidence of work being done. I can’t keep using that excuse and nothing is changing. It’s the same with you.

Daily Devotional – 11/11/14 “God believes in you!”

I got a late start to my day today and I had decided that I wasn’t going to do a devotional but I couldn’t let the opportunity pass without telling you that God believes in you. Yea, somebody, who is probably close to you, wants you to believe that what you’re going through is punishment for some stuff you’ve done. Somebody, who you trust, is probably the one tripping you up and you’re blaming the enemy. Somebody, who you count on, is the main on counting you out. Well, baby I simply stopped by today to tell you, you need to modify your circle of friends and you need to change who you listen to. God hasn’t forgotten you, He hasn’t given up on you, He hasn’t bought you this far to let you go now; He believes in you. Don’t forfeit your destiny based on the words of naysayers. Stop minimizing your miracle because of someone else mess. God believes in you! Stop fighting those meaningless battles and put your energy into God’s work. Why do you think you keep making it? Why do you think you keep surviving? Don’t you understand that if God wanted to punish you, He doesn’t have to base it off of your mistakes; He can just do it? Don’t you know that if God didn’t want to bless you, He doesn’t? Yet, here it is another day that He has given you. Yea, ok; it may not be how you would want it to be. You may not feel like you want to feel. You may not have the money you wish you had. You may not have the job you think you ought to have but God still believes in you enough to wake you up in your right mind with a chance to try again. Stop wondering if God cares because He does and not only does He care but He believes in you. All you have to do now is believe in yourself.