Daily Devotional – 1/6/14 “Let’s get right!”

I wrote a devotional on Saturday morning and I don’t normally do one but church and worship have been weighing heavy on me. See, lately I’ve been feeling like I am tired of church. Maybe it’s the people or to be honest, maybe it’s me but all I know is God is working on me because I just can’t understand why worship services can be so dead on Sunday yet the clubs are jumping every day of the week. Now, I can understand if this was just my church but I’ve visited others and it’s the same way. The pastor, preacher and minister of music have to pump and prime (can I get an Amen, give God praise…) “Christian” folk to do what they say they’ve come to do which is worship. Oh, but all through the week, you keep posting on how good God is, how He’s keeping you, healed your body, kept your baby daddy out of jail, blessed you with the money you’ve posted pictures of and still you got the audacity to come into God’s sacred house on Sunday morning yawning and falling asleep. I don’t get it. Baby, you better stop coming to church because it’s the right thing to do but do the right thing and then come to church (you’ll get that later). Oh, don’t get me wrong, I don’t need a partner to praise with because God has been too good to me to sit on my praise but aren’t we supposed to worship together? Worship is, by dictionary definition, treating somebody or something as divine and showing respect by engaging in acts of prayer and devotion or to take part in a religious service but in Lakisha’s logical thinking; worship is simply loving and respecting God enough to show it!

Yea! I know that I am all up in my feelings but when will we start to treat God the way He treats us. Ok, so your account maybe in the negative after getting paid on Friday but are you hungry? Oh, you must be living outside or sitting in one of the warming shelters that have been opened up by the city or are you at home? You must be reading this devotional on someone else’s device or does it belong to you? Did you have to visit a clothes closet this morning before you dressed or did you walk into your own? Did you stand on a corner begging for food or did you open up your refrigerator to get what you wanted? Oh, let me guess; someone is reading this to you because you’re plugged up to a machine that’s breathing for you? No, then what are you complaining about? You’re mad because you haven’t gotten all the things you think you should but have you done all that you could be doing to get your blessings for Deuteronomy 28:1-2 says, “And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.” I’m simply saying; let’s get right because death is no longer knocking at your door but he’s showing himself in, sickness has no respect of person or age and danger doesn’t care about the color of your skin. Stay prayed up by worshipping God the way you’re supposed to because it’ll be a shame to be heading in the wrong direction after the judgment.

Daily Devotional – 1/4/14 “I’m in labor!”

I’m feeling some type of way this morning. I got this stirring in my spirit that won’t leave me alone. The kind that makes me want to scream out like I’m in pain but it’s because my purpose is being made on the inside of me. I want to cry out like I’m hurting but it’s to let you know that you can’t hinder the process of God working. I want to tell somebody but I can’t explain it so you’ll have to wait until I testify. Yea, this fire I feel is God preparing my blessing until it can be birthed.

Oh, it’s like the creation of a baby in the mothers womb but this time God’s purpose for me is meeting with the expectancy He has for me to form my blessing. It’s been growing on the inside of me for some time now and I feel myself going into labor. Yea, the tears I want to cry is my water breaking, the pain I should be feeling is this praise break I want to have and the stretch marks I should have is the shouting I’m about to do. Baby, I’m in labor getting ready to birth a blessing like none other. Yea, I’m getting ready to push out my purpose, deliver my destiny, nurse my networth, feed my future and raise my reward. So, excuse me if I don’t look the same when you see me again. Forgive me if I don’t act the same when you see me out. No, don’t say I’m bougie when you call and I don’t go the same places or do the same thing because after I’ve labored, I’ll have a whole new outlook.

Daily Devotional – 1/3/14 “Don’t hide it!”

Here I am, again, trying to figure out a topic to write about because although God is speaking to me, my mind is too busy trying to focus on meaningless stuff, so I need to focus. Yea, I could be worried about this and that but why. Why should I worry over stuff today because if God saw me through yesterday surely He’ll see me through today? See, my sister and I traveled up and down the highway to Nashville on yesterday and we could have been another roadway statistic but God had other plans so why worry. I’ve come to know and realize that if I say I am a Christian, I have to also show it and act like it. So, how can I tell you to have faith in God if I don’t? How can I tell you not to worry if that’s all I’m doing? How can I tell you to trust God when I’m not even trusting in Him? I mean, I could be like some who say they got religion but what good is having religion if no one else can see it? Oh, let me drop this in your spirit and I won’t take long … You can’t speak life over folk when your mouth is filled with mess (gossip, backbiting, hating, etc.), you can’t help up those who have fallen if your hands are filled with sinful stuff (other folk’s spouses, stolen items, a knife to stab somebody in the back, etc.) and you can’t go where God wants to send you if your feet are planted in the wrong place (motels, coveting your neighbor’s house, etc.) Now, hold up, before you get this thang twisted I didn’t say you couldn’t enjoy life but none of the things I mentioned above can be done in a Godly way. You, as a saint (that a sinner who has been saved) can still have fun but don’t hide your religion doing it because the bible says in 2 Timothy 2:15, “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.”

This is why, sometimes, you have to change your location because the place you’re in, now, could be the reason you haven’t been elevated. Why? Well that’s because you’ve become comfortable in your surroundings. Yea, I know it’s not all about where you stay that makes you but if you stay in the rain too long, you’ll get wet even when you wear a raincoat. So don’t hide your religion because of what you think folk will say or how they’ll treat you because if God hid His blessings every time we made a mistake, some of us would be raggedy nothings, tore up from the floor up sinners without a pot to … You get my drift! If you have to change who you are or hide the religion that has been placed on the inside of you, then you are trying to fit into a spot that won’t fit you anyway! Baby, I don’t know about you but I am not ashamed of the Holy Spirit that abides with me daily and I will share it no matter where I am because I just might be the blessing a person needs to stop the tears that were getting ready to fall. All I’m saying is, this New Year, stop losing focus on God and the purpose He’s placed over your life and don’t hide your religion because it may hinder the help you’ve been praying for!

Daily Devotional – 12/31/13 “Oh, I love this man, Jesus!”

I received an email from WordPress for my year in review and in looking at it; it states the most popular day for my blog was 2/19/13. The blog that day was entitled “Oh, how I love Jesus.” Now, I find that absolutely amazing that on that day me along with 387 other folk shared the same love for a Man who hung, bled and died for us. You know that kind of love that makes you love yourself when man says you’re unworthy. That kind of love that makes you feels like somebody even when the world says, statistically, you’ll never amount to anything. That kind of love that comfort you up when you feel lonely even though you’re surrounded by folk. That kind of love that rocks you to sleep when your mind is racing and you should be pacing the floor. You know that kind of love that strengthens you to walk over obstacles that should have knocked you down a long time ago, that kind that lets you know everything will be alright even when the doctor says it won’t be, that kind that picks you up when you’ve fallen too many times to count and that kind of love that’ll comfort you like momma after she is gone home. Oh, how I love Jesus; the man who stepped in for my sins, the man who was lied on for loving, drug from place to place for delivering, beaten because He blessed, cursed because He converted, hung because He healed and yet He still defeated death! Oh, how I love Jesus!

Even when I was a filthy nobody running from His anointing, too scared to step out on faith, too blind to see His light, too worldly to be worthy, too ungrateful for His grace, too messy for His mercy, too mean to hear His message, too selfish to tithe, too talkative and still not testifying, too lazy to listen, too angry to be used, too ashamed to acknowledge Him and even when I felt like I was too broken to believe, too hurt to heal, too fearful to fight, too scared to stand, too weak to walk and too damaged to be delivered; He loved me anyway. Oh, how I love Jesus! I better leave this thang alone because I feel something stirring in my spirit on the last day of 2013 but somebody needed to know, today, that Jesus loves you. Yes, he does! It doesn’t matter what his or her text said because God’s text says in Romans 5:8, “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” It doesn’t even matter that folk say they don’t love you anymore because 1 John 4:16 says, “So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” When it is all said and done, Jesus loves you. Now the question is how do you love Jesus?