Lakisha, the Author

Daily Devotional – 6/16/14 “Your testimony gets tested!”

Every once in a while your testimony has to get tested just to remind you of what you’ve been bought out of. Yea, every once in a while your testimony is tested to see if you’ll still share it. Every once in a while your testimony has to be tested just to keep you in check. Why? Well that’s because sometimes your ego gets bigger than it should. You know how you start acting like you were the one who healed yourself, provided your own way out when your back was against the wall, healed your own heart after it was shattered by that lust you thought was loved, rocked your own self to sleep after crying for hours, made it to the next payday when you were broke the day after this one, arrived to your destination when you shouldn’t have or even carried yourself through that hell that almost claimed your life; when you know you ain’t done nothing. This is why your testimony has to be tested. Baby, don’t you know that when God gives you benefits, it’s to benefit Him. When God heals you, it’s because He wants you to use it as your testimony to convert those non-believers. Haven’t you realized it by now that you are the bible to those who’ve yet to confess with their mouth and believe in their heart that God is Lord? Don’t you know that when God is blessing you, He is allowing His power to be manifested through you so that you can go, show and tell? And when you’re sitting idle on your testimony, God has to sometimes test it. This is why the doctor wanted to run a few more tests so that you’d think about that healing you’ve already received and share it. When you thought you weren’t going to be able to make ends meet but when you found out you had a little extra in the bank, it was your testimony being tested to see if you’d share how you overcame being in debt before. Child, God doesn’t give you stuff for only your benefit but it is so others can see what He’s done and then believe. This is why it is your responsibility to share your testimony for the bible says in Mark 8:38 “If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” And the test of your testimony isn’t to punish or harm you but it’s simply a reminder of where you’ve been bought from. So don’t be selfish enough to keep it to yourself.

“It wasn’t so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn, dupes of sin, ordered every which way by our glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating back. But when God, our kind and loving Savior God, stepped in, he saved us from all that. It was all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit. Our Savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. God’s gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there’s more life to come—an eternity of life! You can count on this.” Titus 3:3-8 (The Message Bible)

Daily Devotional – 6/13/14 “Converted!”

Why do we, as Christians, place but where God has placed yet? Yea, we’ve become but type people because every time God says move we say but why? God picks you out and you ask but why me? God says I’ll provide for you and we say but I’m still struggling. God says just trust me and we say but I can’t see you instead of saying, although I can’t see you God yet I’ll trust you. See, it’s mind boggling to me that we will trust a chair to hold us up when we see it’s shaking and raggedy yet we won’t trust God who has never let us down. The bible says in Habakkuk 3:17, “Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty,” … wait for it because someone right now was about to say but where is the joy in that when it picks right back up in Habakkuk 3:18 that says, “Yet I will rejoice in the LORD! I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!”

Yea, you’re probably saying but how can I rejoice with cancer, dialysis, no money, stomach growling, no car, no job and friends who are really enemies? How can I rejoice when it seems like I take one step forward only to get pushed three steps back, I keep knocking but opportunity isn’t answering, I keep applying for jobs but getting no call back and I keep praying and praising but nothing is happening. Well, this is where you change your thought process because now say, think and believe like this … I may be struggling in my finances yet I shall not be without. I may be drinking tears for water yet my weeping won’t last. I may be heartbroken at the moment yet my God is a heart fixer. I may have a few storms in my life yet God is my umbrella. I may have to lose a few friends yet God is a whisper away. I may lose a few loved ones through death yet God never leaves. I may get burdened down in my trials yet God is my strength. I may not always see my way yet God is my light. I may sometimes do wrong yet God forgives me if I repent. I may not always know my worth yet God continues to bless me. I may not always do what I know I should or go where I know I could yet God still uses me. Yea, I may fall at times yet I can still get up. Sickness may be attacking my body yet I’m living. My road may be longer and my fights may be harder yet I’m willing. I may not have done everything right yet God is keeping me. I may not have all the answers yet God is still teaching me. I may not hear everything I should yet God is still reaching me! My God! I just know in my sanctified spirit that someone reading this is being converted from a “but” person to a “yet” person and that’s enough to rejoice about. Stop questioning God and instead say, “God, I am not worthy yet here am I, use me!”

Daily Devotional – 6/12/14 “Today has been paid for!”

Why are you still borrowing from yesterday when today has already been paid in full? I don’t understand why you are still minding yesterday’s misery when today’s mercies are new. How can you still be caught up on yesterday’s could haves when you have today’s cans? Quit harping on yesterday’s heartache and handle today’s happiness. Stop wallowing in yesterday’s weariness when you woke up today worthy. Baby, don’t you know if it wasn’t meant for you to see today, you would have died yesterday? Yet here you are today after being touched by God’s finger (whenever you got up), gave you back everything you were blessed with yesterday (notice I said blessed with because He forgave your sins, if you repented) and allowed warm blood to flow through the blood vessels that work into the veins that support the organs that still work in order for the limbs you’re now using to be useable. He even regulated your mind because you could have someone speaking for you but you don’t. You could be in the ICU without any knowledge of being in the world; you could be hook up to machines that are breathing for you, in a jail cell being commanded by someone else, in someone’s courtroom with your fate in man’s hands, on the street begging for change or selling your body for drugs that controls your life. Oh but look at you looking like you’re looking. Folk could see the tears you cried yesterday but instead they see the smile today. Folk could see the hell you endured in your own home yesterday but instead they see the blessing of you being alive today. Yea, folk could see the sickness that had you down yesterday yet all they see is that you’re better today. So again I have to ask, why are you borrowing from yesterday when today is paid in full? God gave you a new day which could have been cloudy like yesterday but instead the sun is shining. God gave you a new day even though it wasn’t promised that you’d see it. God gave you a new day to get it right when you could have died in your sins yesterday. I’m just trying to get you to see that you’re here today.

Psalm 30:5 says, “For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.” Now, if you didn’t catch that it says joy comes WITH the morning but it’s up to you to get it. Stop blaming yesterday when it’s gone never to be seen again when you can get up and get the joy that comes with today!

Daily Devotional – 6/11/14 “God did it!”

For I am chosen, even in this mean world, I am royalty; I belong to God which means I can declare His praises, for it was God who called me; it was God who turned my darkness into light; it was God who chose me! Before I was nobody now I am just who God declares I am. Before I had an office of mess but now I have a ministry of God’s mercy. Before I was who man called me but oh when God called my name He called me chosen!

I had to share that again because I never had any intentions on starting a blog, being a devotional writer or even an author but God did. I never had plans to be an encourager to you but God did. Most of the time I don’t even know what I’m going to write about but God does. See, when I write a devotional on this blog for you to read, it’s my release. It’s, for me, the same release a pastor gets when he preaches the sermon on Sunday that he has worked so hard to get just right. Yea, I could write anything but what good is that? I could even not write but again what good would that be? God didn’t have to give me another opportunity today but He did. He didn’t have to let my hands work but He did. He didn’t have to let my mind be structured but He did. He didn’t even have to give me a fresh helping of His anointing but He did. I said all that to say this, God doesn’t have to bless your ungrateful, never good enough, I need a little bit more, why me Jesus, the devil made me do it, God knows my heart, I’ll repent for it later, I got more time, I’ll do it tomorrow; self but He did. He didn’t have to let you get up when you were wallowing in your woe is me pit but He did. He didn’t have to dry those, I’m not good enough, tears but He did. He didn’t even have to change your name from nobody to somebody, change your address from nothing avenue to somewhere boulevard, change your thoughts from can’t to can, body from dying to living and your checking account from red to black but He did. He didn’t have to change your dead end to a highway, cover your feet with mountain climbing shoes, strengthen your shoulders to carry the extra weight, give you the burst you need to go over or around your obstacles nor the courage to stand flat on your feet with your shoulders squared to look the enemy in his face but He did. Yea, God did it because you are royalty, a chosen people! God did it because He made you for this. God did it because He already had plans set for you. God did it and that’s all that matters. Whatever it is you’re facing, toiling with or questioning; God did it so trust Him enough to do it!

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