Daily Devotional – 9/17/14 “Tomorrow!”

You all know that tomorrow is defined as the day after today but none of us are promised to see yet if our eyes are opened to see the dawning of the brand new day most of us don’t count it as a blessing? Yea, most of us get up like God owe us something. If the truth shall be told we get up acting like man owes us something so why should we treat God any less. We act like momma should owe us babysitting service, daddy should owe us maintenance service and sister should owe us loan services. Yet God wakes our ungrateful selves up over and over again never taking into account the many times we’ve taken Him for granted. Baby, if God counted the many times we laid down without saying our prayers, we’d never wake up. If He counted the many times we ate without saying grace, we’d choke a many times. If He counted the many times we said we’d do it tomorrow when He had the chance to not allow us to see tomorrow …

Oh, I’m simply counting the many blessings I’ve been given that I know I wasn’t worthy of. I’m simply replaying the many times I’ve been counted in when I know I should have been counted out. I’m simply thinking on the many tomorrows I’ve seen when I know I shouldn’t have seen past yesterdays. I’m simply reflecting on where I know I should be if it hadn’t been for God’s grace bringing me from yesterday’s gutter to today’s glory! Y’all, I’m simply letting you know that I can’t worry about yesterday’s mistakes because they were made and left there. I can’t even begin to worry about tomorrow because Matthew 6:34 tells me, “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.” Beloved, let me speak this in your life right now … Even if you can’t see your way right now, your life is about to be changed because I am speaking it! Your tomorrow won’t be the same because I’ve already declared it to be different, if you believe and love God for 1 Corinthians 2:9 tells me, “But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him.” Today is today and I am declaring that your tomorrow will be greater than anything you can even imagine. It may not look like it now but trust me. You’ll even smile tomorrow even though you may be crying now. Tomorrow! Wait for it!

Daily Devotional – 9/16/14 “Get understanding!”

At bible study last night my nephew, who I thought wasn’t paying attention because he was too busy drawing on all the pages in my notebook, leaned over and asked me why wasn’t I saying anything (in the discussion that was happening). I asked him what he meant. He said, you said you believed in God so why aren’t you saying anything? Now, he’s five and I know he loves church and pays attention when preaching is going on but I just knew he wasn’t paying any attention the entire time Pastor Letcher was teaching yet he was and he wanted to know why I wasn’t saying anything. I told him I didn’t have anything to say at the moment. I asked him why he wasn’t saying anything and he said because he was scared but that still didn’t make him understand why I didn’t have anything to say because to him, I should have.

Now, I shared that to say this … Children pay attention TO EVERYTHING! His logic of thinking made him believe that because I believed in God I should have had something to say in the dialogue of conversation that was going on. Isn’t it amazing how in tune he is to the teaching of God’s word even at his age and some of us adults aren’t? Yet some of us will jump up ready to take on a position in the church but won’t sit long enough to be taught when just like in Israel, God is saying to us, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6)”. Yet Proverbs 1:7 says, “Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.” Job 28:12 asks the question, “But where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell? And Job 28:28 answers it by saying, “And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord–that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.” Will you be perfect in everything you do? No but if you are comfortable in committing sin everyday then you are already on the losing side of your battle. Fear the Lord, that’s the first step in the right direction. Then get His book so that you gain knowledge to understand for yourself because there is no better understanding than self explanation. God’s word has a way of giving you everything you need for everything you go through. You may not see it the moment you’re going through but you’ll realize it the moment you come out or after you look back on it.

Daily Devotional – 9/15/14 “Renewed hope!”

I am standing and believing with renewed hope that there is help coming for God’s people. Yes, I believe that help is on the way. See, I witnessed a miracle on Thursday afternoon in room 3 of the emergency room of Methodist University Hospital when one doctor said it was over for my grandmother but God said I am simply showing renewed hope. See, somebody’s hope was fading and it needed to be renewed. I don’t know if it was a member of my family, if it was a member of the hospital staff or even if it was mine but God simply used my grandmother as a way to renew hope to all those who came in contact with her on that afternoon. Yea, here we were rallying around her bedside and she didn’t need us but we surely needed her. From doctors to nurses, from her children to grandchildren, from nieces to nephews, from cousins to friends; she changed lives that day. I may never know but I truly believe that some who didn’t believe in God before that day believe now. Yea, some who may have doubted before no longer doubt the power of the Man who can heal the sick and raise the dead. Those who said there is no such thing as praying power saw it for themselves first hand. God’s power manifested, that means it’s being revealed firsthand for all to see.

You don’t have to take my word for it but take God at His and trust Him. Yes, I know this world we are living in is bad but I trust and believe that God is about to send some renewed hope. I believe that He is going to send us a new covenant like He did in Jeremiah 31:31 and we, His people will have it written into our hearts and live it like we are supposed to. I am standing firm and believing that we as God’s people will get back to being what God will have us to be. With the murders, domestic violence, sickness, diseases, spiritual warfare, wars and everything else that is happening in our world today; we need renewed hope. Just imagine how it could be if each one of us would renew our own individual hope and then collectively get together. Baby, do you know the kind of worship experience we would have on Monday night at bible study, Wednesday night prayer service, Thursday night rehearsal and Sunday morning Sunday School and Worship Service if folk would come in with renewed hope? Can you imagine it? Lives wouldn’t ever be the same because people would actually leave church better than they came! Oh, if you need to know what renewed hope feels like, let me tell you … It feels like fire in your bones burning to get out. It feels like this praise on the inside that you just can’t keep to yourself even though you’ve tried. It feels like hearing your favorite song on Saturday morning and you dance and you don’t care who’s watching. It feels like joy, the kind you can’t explain and when you try it doesn’t come out right. It feels like peace, the kind that you don’t understand and don’t even care too. Renewed hope is my prayer for you! Try it! It’s a wonderful feeling! Romans 15:13, “I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Daily Devotional – 9/11/14 “Get tired but then …”


As a Christian, you should be tired. You should be tired of being picked on by the enemy but it should make you work harder to push him off of you. You should be tired of conforming to the world’s standards when God’s behaviors are way better anyway. You should be tired of playing church. You should be tired of playing on both sides of the fence, aren’t you too old for that anyway? You should be tired of being lied on so give them the truth to whisper about. You should be tired of being counted out so count yourself in. Aren’t you tired of waiting on someone else to encourage you, child encourage yourself sometime. Aren’t you tired of whining and crying with the woe is me attitude, the pity party and the feel sorry for me parade? When will you get up off of your do nothing and do something? You do know that you can’t get anywhere standing in the same spot, right? Yes, you’re going through something. Who isn’t? So the enemy is camped at your door, close it. He moved in? Pack his or her stuff and move him or her the hell out!

Listen beloved, don’t you know that if you weren’t being blessed, the enemy wouldn’t request your presence? If you were easy to break the enemy wouldn’t need to go before God to request the honor of testing your faith yet he has no choice because He knows you are a force to be reckoned with. Yet God smiles and nods and gives the enemy the go ahead to test you knowing He has given you EVERYTHING you need to succeed, yet you got the audacity to flinch at the first sight of trouble. Chile; get it together! For God says in Jeremiah 31:25, “I will fully satisfy the needs of those who are weary and fully refresh the souls of those who are faint.” Get tired of being down and get up! Get tired of being out and get in! Get tired of being left and get right! But don’t give up! Get tired of getting picked on and get picked out. Get tired of being a choice and be chosen. Get tired of being called and answer, before it’s too late!

Daily Devotional – 9/10/14 “Love doesn’t hurt!”

I am not about to jump on the bandwagon of bashing men over domestic violence or blaming women who stay in abusive relationships because I’ve never been in a position to ever get out of one so I don’t know how one feels. However I do know this … LOVE DOES NOT HURT! Yes, words hurts, fists hurts, beatings hurts, wounds hurts but love does not. I don’t know what it feels like to be hit by my husband but I also don’t know what it feels like to hit my husband because I’ve never done it either; respect goes both ways. Listen, it’s time out for keeping things to ourselves. I know grandma used to say you keep family business at home but baby, there are some things that needs to be talked about outside the home. You have teenagers getting their butts kicked at school by these knucklehead boys and they are too scared to come home and tell somebody out of fear of getting their butt beat at home. Teach the kids that home is their safe place and if not home, then at least give them a safe place at somebody’s church. And please stop putting your personal feelings in place when it comes to their worship experience. Just because you ran away from the church instead of dealing with your demons, don’t stop them from getting the worship experience they need; break that generational curse … TODAY! It has to be destroyed. Haven’t you seen the news? Our children are dying by the minute and most of them without a church home which means without the saving grace of God; this has to stop.

This domestic violence demon is running rampant in our community and it is taking the lives of mothers and fathers which mean it is ultimately taking the lives of the children that are being left behind. Y’all we’ve got to destroy it and send it back to the pits of hell from where it came. How? Pray it off of the backs of the men and women who it so easily attaches itself too. How? Women; pray over, under, beside and in front of your man! Men; pray over, under, beside and in front of your woman! Stop letting any and everything into your relationship! Stop letting any and every one into your home! Stop being a hellmate and start being a helpmate! Stop listening to everybody who says they have something to say. Stop hearing every rumor that is spoken about your spouse. And please stop lying down with just anybody! If he or she is a little possessive in the beginning, it’ll only get worse; take heed to the warning signs and if he or she has threatened before, listen. It doesn’t matter if you have a position or not because abuse is abuse and if you’re dead, your casket will look the same as everybody else just a different color. Don’t be embarrassed, be alive. Love doesn’t hurt. Get out, get help!

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 says, “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.