Daily Devotional – 10/08 “What if God…”

I can’t speak for you but I’m glad, no I’m grateful that God doesn’t bless us based on our works for him or the way we treat folks! Bay-bee, most of us would be tore up from the floor up and back down, constant complainers, wimpy whiners, blatant backstabbers, enemies of our own brother & sisters, greedy gossipers; oh my bad; that’s some of us now! Yea, you claim you’re a ride or die for your best friend who’ll leave you hanging when trouble comes yet you won’t even ride and you’re scared to die for God and He sent His only Son to die just so you could sin and then repent. Oh, yea you’re in the club until they make the last call for alcohol but then you roll your eyes when service last a little longer than you’d like. You’re all up in the TV screaming when a football game is on, can name every player on the team and will rep your team from head to toe but you can’t even name 3 books in the bible, won’t be seen wearing a Jesus Loves Me shirt and so quiet during worship folk hardly know you there but you love God. OK!

Humph, if God blessed us based on how we serve Him, you wouldn’t be where you are now and you have the nerve to complain on most days. You want to ride around in a fancy car, stay in a big house and have money in your pocket but when the Pastor does it, he’s spending the church’s money. You hang out drinking with your friends and it’s no problem but when the Pastor do it, he’s going to hell but aren’t they human too? What if God judged our tomorrow on how we lived today, would you receive the same blessings? What if God gave us tomorrow what we thanked Him for today, would you have enough? What if God loved us the way we loved one another, would you feel loved? What if God came to us the way we go for Him, would you see Him? What if God ignored us the way we ignore those we are supposed to help, would you make it? What if God kept a count of the times you prayed; would He use 2 hands? What if God healed us based on our faith, would you be well? What if God based your breakthrough on you actually going through, would you break through or would you still be in the mess you’re in? What if God has based your elevation on your praise, would you ever rise? What if God allowed your problems to come based on your praise, would you be trouble free? I’m only asking. What if God simply treated us how we sometimes treat Him? He’d probably forget to wake us up the way we forget to thank Him. He’d probably forget to protect us the way we forget to praise Him. He’d even probably forget to see about us the same way we forget to see to it that we follow Him. Wouldn’t that be something?

“Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with mockers. But they delight in the law of the LORD, meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do. Psalm 1:1-3”

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.