Daily Devotional – 10/7/13 “Your heart determines your harvest!”

Oh, I bet you didn’t even realize this, did you? Yea, I know that it’s said that what you sow you shall reap but don’t you know that if you sow something good with a bad, deceitful heart that you sow in vain? See, Jesus told Samuel in 1 Samuel 16:7, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” Yea, you see someone handing you food but God sees someone who is wishing you’d choke. You see someone offering you a hug but God sees someone who is about to stab you in the back. You see someone offering you encouragement but God sees someone who is quietly wishing for your demise. You see someone offering to pray for you but God sees someone who is praying for you to fail. This is why you have to know a person’s heart. I know you’re asking how you can know someone’s heart when you can’t see it. Well, it’s easy; know them because a person shows you who they truly are but you have to be willing to see it and then receive it.

You don’t honestly expect God to bless you for your giving when you only give for a show, do you? You can’t expect God to send someone to love you when your heart is hard like stone, can you? You aren’t really looking for an open door when you’ve shut so many in other folk’s face, are you? I mean, you have the audacity to get mad at God when you know you aren’t right. Your heart is so full of hell, it’s barely pumping and now you won’t even go to worship because God hasn’t sent the answer you want. Child, please! If you’re wondering why your harvest didn’t pay off like you thought it should, check your heart. If you’re wondering why you aren’t getting the blessings you think you deserve, check your heart. If you keep fasting and praying yet your answer is still the same, check your heart. If folk keep leaving you, check your heart because the answer is there for Jeremiah 17:10 says, “But I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.” If you didn’t know before, you know now because Proverbs 21:2 says, “A person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart.”

Proverbs 17:20 says, “One whose heart is corrupt does not prosper; one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble,” but Proverbs 17:22 says, “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength.”

Making it personal!

I just had to make it personal today because God is doing some great things in my life! I am pleased to share with each of you that my book has officially released! Now, please note; this isn’t a devotional although you can still get a copy of it (Doses of Devotion) from Amazon, however this is my first fiction work entitled A Secret Worth Keeping.

ASWK Cover

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Daily Devotional – 10/4/13 “Get up!”

You’re sitting around waiting for stuff to happen and then get mad when they don’t. You want stuff to drop in your lap and then get an attitude when nothing falls. You expect God to come and see about you yet you won’t go when He sends you somewhere. At what point will you get up to get your blessing? When will you get up to get exactly what you’ve been asking for? You’re begging, in prayer, for a job yet you haven’t filled out one application. You keep asking God to heal you yet you won’t take the medicine the doctor prescribed. You keep asking for deliverance from your addiction yet you’re still swallowing pills or alcohol, filling your veins with poison, shopping, seeking out those who you can devour (adultery) or whatever else you’re addicted too. When will you do your part? When will you get up? When will you release all the things that you’ve been tied too and get up? When will you get up and let go of that woman’s husband, that man’s wife, that car or house you can’t afford, that abusive spouse, that stressful job, that child that’s sucking you dry, that woe is me attitude or that hate that’s making you bitter? Oh, please note; it is your choice because you can sit back and allow things to pass you by but don’t hinder me. Don’t try to trip me up from walking into my destiny, don’t try to pull me down on the way up to my elevation and don’t try to talk me out of my blessing because you’re mad. The only difference between you and I, I got up!

Yea, see the bible says in Romans 12:6, “Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them,” which means you have to get up. This scripture goes on to say in verses 7-8, “If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.” To sum it up, if you have a talent or gift, use it and if you’re capable of doing it, do it! All you have to do is believe it for yourself, have faith that it can be done, ask for it and then get up to get it! This is why 2 Corinthians 5:7 says, “For we walk by faith, not by sight,” because if we used only our sight to take us into places or to meet folk, we would probably miss out on a lot of things. So today, I stopped by to tell you that in order to get your healing, your blessing, your gift, your tears dried, your bank account increased, your territory enlarged, your heart mended, your mind regulated, your situation changed, your obstacles moved, your husband or your wife, your career, your home, your car, your happiness back, your sleep back, comfort and sun after your storm; you need to have some faith that can’t be shaken by the storm, moved by the wind, knocked down by folk, stepped on by your enemies and counted out by you; you need to GET UP, grab your faith and get to work! With even a mustard seed type of faith and God’s promise ALL things are possible.

Daily Devotional – 10/2/13 “That attitude!”

You got the nerve to blame your stanky attitude on waking up on the wrong side of the bed when it isn’t the bed’s fault but it’s yours because if the truth shall be told here, you get up on the same side of the bed every morning. You want to blame the world because you’re in debt but it isn’t the world’s fault because no one told you to get yet another credit card, that high car loan or that big house. You’re mad because your baby’s daddy is a deadbeat but wasn’t he trifling when you laid down with him? You had to know there was a chance you could make a baby when you weren’t using protection, right? If he was a horrible boyfriend, then chances are he will be a horrible father. If you couldn’t count on him to come and change a flat tire when you were stranded then you should know that the chances of getting those pampers he promised are slim to none. So why are you mad? You’re mad because your sister, brother, mom, dad or uncle wouldn’t let you borrow the money you asked for; when actually it is not borrowing because you probably don’t have it to give back so it’s giving. Have you ever called to ask them how they are instead of always begging? Maybe they are having a bad day or really don’t have it to give. Oh but hold up, they really don’t have to give you anything but love because it’s free, everything else is a blessing so be grateful. You’re still mad at daddy because he wasn’t there for you growing up and you are now over 30. Get over it! Daddy is the one that has missed out on your life. What have you missed? Didn’t mom still provide for you, wipe your nose when you were sick, attend school functions when she could, raise you with morals and character? Daddy is the one that has to answer to God on being an absentee father so why are you trying to condemn him too? Let go of the anger and resentment that you have in your heart for him because it’s blocking your path to God. Let it go baby and move on because God has blessings and work for you to do but He can’t reach you with all this other stuff built around you. Tear down the walls and stop treating every man that comes along like your daddy. Just because he left doesn’t mean every man will leave. You need to break the curse and start today!

Stop with all the foolishness! Stop being an angry female or male! If you didn’t get that job that you claimed, it wasn’t yours. If you’re spouse chooses to leave, he or she wasn’t yours. If you lose your house or car, it wasn’t yours because God won’t give you anything He won’t give you the means to keep. If you asked God to get you out of debt and they repossessed your car or foreclosed on your house, why are you mad? If you asked God to bind your enemies and folk left, why are you mad? If you asked God to release the strongholds that have you bound and stressed and you got laid off, why are you mad? If you asked God for confirmation in a decision and then you receive an email, phone call or text, why are you doubting or skeptical? Didn’t you ask? Stop asking for stuff you’re not ready to handle and stop acting like God is punishing you because you’re having it hard right now. I can guarantee that everyone you know has been, is about to, or is coming out of a storm because it’s just a test that we, as Christians, have to endure to get through. It isn’t about you, it’s about God’s work through you but that attitude, we can all do without!

Proverbs 14:29 says “People with understanding control their anger; a hot temper shows great foolishness” or John 1:19 “Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.”