Daily Devotional – 11/19/14 “Clean it up!”

Doesn’t it feel good when you have cleaned up the area you’re in? Doesn’t it feel good to ride in a clean car, to sleep on clean sheets, to have a clean home? Then why don’t you clean up your spiritual life? I told you yesterday to watch the company you keep because keeping bad company messes with your spirituality. Yes it does! You don’t have to admit it but ok, think about it like this … every time you cook spaghetti sauce don’t you end up getting some on your clothes? No matter how you try to avoid it, that red sauce always end up getting somewhere on you. Either it’s on the sleeve of your shirt, the front of it, your pants; somewhere because it’s spaghetti sauce. Well, a spirit is the same way; especially a bad one, its job is to invade your space because once it’s in your spirit, its main job is to infect your good spirit. And guess what? All it takes is a spot on your spirit because then it grows.

Yea, anger begins small and then it increases because we allow it to fester. Worry starts off small and then it grows because we add stuff to it. Gossip starts off as a whisper but then it grows because folk add stuff to it. Lies start off small but then they grow because we add stuff to it. You get mad at somebody for one thing and before long you’ve bought up stuff from 19 years ago because you keep adding stuff to it making it grow. Why? Why not leave stuff alone? Why not bury stuff and allow it to stay buried? Why not kill stuff and allow it to stay dead? Why are you resurrecting past hurt? Aren’t you tired of being hurt? Aren’t you spiritually tired? Aren’t you tired of carrying baggage that isn’t even yours to carry? Aren’t you tired of all the excess stuff being attached to your spirit? Clean it up! Clean up your spiritual life in order for you to grow. It isn’t for anybody else but clean up your spirit for you and then you’ll be able to be a blessing to others. For Romans 12:1-2 says, “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

Daily Devotional – 11/18/14 “Watch the company you keep!”

As a child, it was always taught to us that you watch the company that you keep. I used to wonder why my mom, grandma and granddaddy used to be so adamant about being careful who you considered a friend but as I grew older I understood that you just can’t trust everybody. Now, I’m not writing this as a trust thing but I’m writing this as a spiritual thing because the company you keep can hurt your spirit. How? Well, I’m glad you asked. Being around different spirits allows those different spirits to attach to your spirit and now you’re spiritually different and you don’t even see it. You hang around spirit rudeness and now when you come home your attitude is rude and the entire house has to suffer. You hang around spirit gossip lot and now you’ve started talking and have told some stuff you shouldn’t have and you can’t take it back. You hang around spirit no good and now you’ve gotten caught up in some stuff all because you’ve allowed somebody else spirit to attach to yours. Watch the company you keep. Baby, everybody ain’t company material.

Why do you think companies do job interviews? Everybody doesn’t fit in everywhere. Everybody’s spirits don’t mesh well together. Everybody isn’t company material. This is why you have to watch the company you keep. You may not realize it yet but you will. Look around you. Reevaluate your friends and maybe even some family members. You wonder why your business doesn’t stay your business, watch the company you keep. You wonder why your marriage is suffering, watch the company you keep. Your spiritual life suffering, watch the company you keep. I’ve said this a few times before but someone close to you is probably the one who has their mouth on your blessing. “How she get blessed with that car?” “How she get that job?” Someone in your circle is probably the one praying for you to fail and you keep inviting them to all of the events when God keeps erasing their number from your phone. God has already given the enemy a front row seat to your victory, stop giving them the trophy. Watch the company you keep!

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?