Daily Devotional – 10/16/12 “Daily Prayer – Day 3, For women”

A prayer for women

Our Father, holy is thy name; may your kingdom come on Earth as it is in Heaven. Thank you, God, for allowing another chance to see this day that wasn’t promised. Thank you for giving me another opportunity to petition your throne of mercy and for letting me get up from my sleep with the activity of all the limbs you saw fit for me to have. Thank you for letting me find my family alive and well, for the air that I breathe, the sun that’s shining, the few clouds that are in the sky, the birds that are singing and the wind that’s blowing. God, thank you for the small things that many take for granted on a daily basis. Now, oh God, I come to you today praying for the women of this world, for they need your strength to carry on, they need your direction to walk on, they need your comfort to hold on and they need your hope to help on. God, somebody is fighting a battle that is not theirs to fight, give her the confidence she needs to walk away victorious even though she may be deemed a loser in man’s eyes. God, somebody is dealing with the pressures of being a single mother, she can’t seem to keep food on the table, her lights on, her car note or rent paid, the medicine she needs, she can’t take the kids to the dentist/doctor like they need to go and she can’t buy them the clothes/shoes they need but show her now that you are her provider. God, some mother has been up all night long crying because she had to say goodbye to her child who was killed due to violence, comfort her like only you can. Then comfort the mother who is searching for a missing child because no one can understand the pain that she is feeling at this very moment. Now, God, go into the hospitals and sit with the mother who is sitting by the bedside of the child the doctors have given up on, wrap your arms around the mother who is waiting on the surgeon to return, the one who just received the news that the cancer has returned and the one who hasn’t had sleep in days because the chemo is taking a toll on their child’s body. God, protect the woman who is being abused and too afraid to leave, show her the way out. Protect the mother who has to work all night long, allow her to make it home safely every night. Guide the mother who has lost her way and too scared to ask for help. Deliver the woman who has thoughts of suicide when it seems like she is being knocked down every way she turns. Deliver the teacher who is standing in front of a class after drinking all night long. Deliver the principal who finds courage from the drugs she is pushing through her veins. Deliver the lawyer who finds joy sleeping with other women’s husbands. Deliver the executive who has a desire for young boys or girls. Deliver the police officer who abuses her power by abusing others. Deliver the minister who is spreading false doctrine to a congregation she is supposed to guide. God, do it like only you can because the women are getting weaker and we need your strength. Build them up to be the woman of their house, build them up so that they can pick up the pieces and live when their hearts have been broken, build them up so that when friends walk away, they’ll keep walking on and build them up so that they can take care of their household when their husband is no longer there. God, build up their self-esteem so that they pull down their dresses and become the virtuous woman you speak about in your word. Build up her self-confidence so that she knows she is beautiful every time she looks in the mirror. God, go in now and remove the hate that she has held against her daddy so that she can see the love in her man, remove the hurt from all the things she has been through in her past so that she can trust folk again, remove the gossip from her lips so that she can help folk and remove the judgment from her eyes so that she can see the good in folk. Oh, God I thank you for making women stronger, for making us wiser, for making us willing to work for you, for making us helpers of men, for making our shoulders strong enough to carry the burdens of this world, for making our knees strong enough to endure the long prayer sessions for our families and for making us able to smile when we want to cry. Now, God I am yet again claiming victory over women today and I am claiming healing from cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, low blood pressure, low iron, heart disease, strokes, fibroids, tumors, ovarian cancer, migraines, sinus pressure and any other sickness or disease that tries to claim our lives. God, cover and protect all the women who are pregnant; allow the blessing that is growing inside of them to be healthy and allow them to be able to provide their every need. God, touch the woman who is reading this so that everything she touch, that is in your name, is bountifully blessed and enlarge her territory and allow her to see that her gift will make room for her. Continue to bless us God and continue to make us stronger on our Christian walk. These blessings I ask and this prayer I submit in your name. Amen

Daily Devotional – 10/15/12 “Daily Prayer – Day 2, For the men!”

If you are not friends with me on Facebook, let me explain about the daily prayer. God woke me up early Saturday morning to let me know that you needed prayer. He didn’t have to tell me the reason because I don’t have to know in order to pray for you because when I pray and I do so in the right frame of mind then the Holy Spirit will join in with me to fill in the blanks; so I don’t have to know your situation. So, for the next 7 days (started Sunday 10/14) I will be doing a daily prayer. You can find yesterday’s prayer on my Facebook Page (Lakisha Johnson) or Kisha’s Daily Devotionals. If you need prayer, let me know. You can email me at kishasdevotionals@comcast.net, inbox or write it on my wall on Facebook or send me a tweet on Twitter (#marcydionne). Again, you don’t have to go into detail unless you choose too.

Today I am praying for the men because they need more encouragement, today, than ever before.

Our Father in Heaven, it is me once again petitioning your throne. First, oh God, I must thank you because when I woke up this morning I was able to see a new day that wasn’t promised, I looked around and I knew where I was which means you regulated my mind one more time, I was able to move so you gave me back all the activities of my limbs, I was able to stand so you gave me strength, I had all my senses, I had an appetite and food to eat, I had warm water to bathe in, clothes and shoes to put on, a job to go too, kids to send to school, a husband who wants to work and provide for his family, a car to drive in and an opportunity to serve you once more; so I must thank you. Thank you for being all that you said you would be and more. Thank you for giving to me after you have already given too much. Thank you for loving me when I don’t deserve it, walked with me after I’ve taken the wrong path, picked me up after I’ve fallen and dried my tears when I cry. And thank you God for never breaking a promise. Now, God I come to you in prayer asking you to bless the men of this world because they need you more than ever because living and providing is getting harder. God, bless them to be stronger and wiser Christian men and let them know that there’s nothing wrong with praising you. God give them the fire they need to go to worship service with their families on Sunday and get them back to being the head of their households. Remove the old mentality of going to church and even paying tithes so that their Christian walk is greater than ever before. God give them the courage to praise you without caring about whose watching and the courage to dance for you even when it’s not Sunday morning. God strengthen their tongue and mind to be able to pray over their family, strengthen their bodies so that they can work to be the provider, strengthen their mind to let go of things that have happened in the past and allow them to move on. God, right now, I ask you to bind insecurities, bind adulterous ways and thoughts, bind the temptations that make them want to stray away from home, bind the attacks by the enemy that keeps them from being the daddy that they should be, bind alcoholism, drug addictions, sex addictions and abusive, controlling behaviors. God I ask that you remove the thought of suicide from the dad who can’t provide for his family so he feels like this is his only option but let him know that you are the option. Bind the thoughts of the dad who wants to steal because he needs to clothe his daughter or son, let him know there is another way. Bind the hands of the dad who came home on last night after drinking too much and wants to abuse his son or daughter. Bind the actions of the dad who thinks walking away will be better for his children now because he has fallen on bad times. God I am asking for healing over prostate cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, arthritis, lupus, high blood pressure, kidney disease, gout, dementia, Alzheimer, heart disease, stroke, blocked arteries, heart attacks and diabetes. God lift up the men today because the enemy thinks he is winning this round but I am claiming victory right now! Victory over unemployment, over sickness, over deadbeat dads, back child support, high child support and no good baby mommas who makes the lives of good daddy’s hell. I am standing in the gap today shouting victory over the enemy, letting him know that he cannot win, he will not win and he shall not win. God, I am standing proclaiming victory and I am looking in the devil’s face to let him know that he cannot have our men. God, touch the hands, hearts, minds and souls of every man today where ever they are, enlarge their territories, increase their coming in and decrease their going out, if it is your will. Allow them to find jobs with health insurance, find decent housing and schools for their children and a decent car they can afford. Do these things for them now because they need it. Help them now, God! Touch the man that is reading this or the man of the woman who is reading this because she can start the claiming process for him; claiming whatever they’ve been asking for. Bless the business of the men that they may be profitable and bless the work that their hands find to do so that they can leave a legacy to their families. God I ask these things in your name because you said that all I had to do was ask. Grant their prayer requests now and then give them peace to stop worrying, send them rest so that they can sleep and stop pacing and give them a touch from you so that they know that they are not alone. Do it now like only you can because I know that you can and you will. Bless our men to be better husbands, better daddies, better brothers, better uncles, better granddaddies, better cousins, better friends and even better prayer partners. Deliver them from whatever is holding them down and whatever is holding them back. Do it because I am asking as if it is already done. Thank you Father for creating men for women, thank you for making them the head and not the tail, the lender and not the borrower; first and not last. Oh God, I thank you for your power. This prayer I humbly submit to you in your name. Amen

Daily Devotional – 10/12/12 “Oh you’re going through but wait!”

The time quickly got away from me today so I wasn’t going to write a devotional but God whispered, “Time doesn’t matter because somebody needs a word today!” See, I sometimes get this thang twisted and start feeling like this is all about me when I’ve got to stop and realize that it’s not. Yea, somebody is dealing with some stuff that is getting the best of them but hold on a minute. Somebody is dealing with depression and they’ve been in it a while but just wait a moment. Somebody is contemplating suicide because they can’t seem to get their head above the water that seems to be drowning them but please wait! Somebody, maybe you, is dealing with the after effects from the death of a loved one but wait. Somebody may be lost because they gave up on God a long time ago but He’s still waiting on you to come back so come on. Yea, I know that you may be without a job, health insurance, family may have cast you out, and friends have turned their back on you and sending you to voice mail every time you call but wait because the bible says in Psalm 34:6, “In my desperation I prayed, and the LORD listened; he saved me from all my troubles.” See, just because you’re dealing with this thing called life and it seems to be hard right now, don’t throw in the towel. God isn’t giving up on you so don’t be quick to give up on Him.

Yea, the doctor may have prescribed you some pills to help with your mood but I’m simply prescribing God because the bible says in 2 Corinthians 4:17, “For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!” I know you’re asking, “But what about now?” Well, for now, you hold on and ride out your storm. See, we all have to experience storms and yes, some storms last longer than others but that’s because we aren’t paying attention to what God is trying to get us to see while we are in our storms. We are quickly trying to get the storm to end while God is trying to get us to see His reasons behind it. Yea, see, God is sending you into your storm so that He can get you to let go of those gossiping friends who are hindering your work for Him but all you see is the rain falling. God is trying to get you to close the door on that trifling boy or no good girl yet all you see is the strong winds that are blowing. God is trying to get you to see that the person on your job who you keep spilling all your secrets too is the main one pouring salt in your wounds every time you keep getting passed over for that promotion yet all you feel is the chill from the cold weather. You’ve got to open your eyes to see exactly what it is that God is trying to get you to see. You probably can’t keep a boy/girlfriend long because you still got all the baggage from your previous relationships dragging you down. You can’t get ahead because you constantly keep looking back and you can’t get from under what is drowning you because you keep getting in the boat with the hole in the bottom.

Baby, the only way you stop yourself from drowning is by stop panicking every time it feels like you’re losing. The only way you stop yourself from sinking is by changing boats. The only way to stop folk from talking about you is by stop giving them the information to talk about. God isn’t making you suffer because you’ve sinned more than the next person but He is allowing you to suffer because the bible says in 1 Peter 4:13, “Instead, be very glad–for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.” So, go through your trials and then come out triumphant. Go through your storms and then come out shouting. Go through your depression but then come out dancing. Go through your sickness and come out successfully restored. Go through your pain and then come out praising. Go on and cry but then cheer up and come out confessing of your confirmation of courage. Yea, deal with the depression, see about the sickness, cut out the crying, release the rage, hang up the hate, wipe up the whining you keep dropping, handle the hurt and hold up your head, stick your chest out, straighten your shoulders and your back and then put one foot in front of the other and keep moving. The world doesn’t stop because you’re having a bad day so why do you? You’re still living for a reason so find that reason and live! The next moment isn’t promised so make the best of what you have now!

Daily Devotional – 10/10/12 – “A prayer when weeping is taking over your Wednesday”

Heavenly Father, whose in Heaven, blessed and sacred is your name, may your kingdom come and may your will be done on Earth as it is done in Heaven. Father, this morning as I petition your throne; I must first thank you for allowing me to see another day, for allowing my limbs to have activity, for allowing my mind to be regulated, my steps ordered, my head anointed, my heart beating and my blood running warm through my veins. God I thank you because even when I don’t do what I know I should, you still bless me. When I don’t go where I should, you still walk with me. When I don’t say what I know I should, you still give me power in my tongue. When I don’t love like I should, you still allow folks to love me. God, I thank you because even when I don’t deserve to live and I’m too mean to die; you still allow me a fresh anointing to see another day so I must thank you. Now God, I come to you this morning as a filthy rag asking to be cleaned. God I need you to go in and do surgery on the inside of me so that I can be better than I am. God I need you to search my heart and remove hate, search my lips and remove gossip and search my head and mind and remove all the things that prevent me from being a better worker for you. God, I need you bind the enemies attacks on my life today, on the lives of my loved ones, my friends and even my enemies. Oh God, we need your help down here. Somebody is fighting a battle within themselves, today and they’re losing. God someone is fighting the demons of alcohol, cocaine, heroin, prescription drugs, sex, peer pressure, bullying, being abused and used; bind them now. God I ask that you bless the person reading this because they are going through something now and they can’t understand the reason for it but I am not asking you to explain it to them but I am asking you to give them strength to endure until the end comes. God somebody reading this is dealing with the sickness of a loved one, the loss of a loved one, the abuse at the hands of someone who said they loved them, sickness or disease, depression, debt that can’t get from under, obstacles they can’t go over and a mountain they don’t have the strength to climb; God do it for them today. Somebody is asking a special request from you, God, and although I don’t know what it is, I am asking on their behalf that you fill it, if it is your will. Somebody is asking for healing, heal now. Somebody is looking for deliverance; deliver them like only you can. Somebody has been running from you, going from church to church or not going to church at all but I know that you can stop their running today. Let them know that your doors are always open and that they can come. God, this world is in an uproar and we need your touch. Touch all those who are claiming to stand for you yet they are doing their own thing. Touch all those who are standing for you and doing the right thing. Touch those who don’t know what to do because I know that you do. We need you down here God and although we can live without you, our living wouldn’t be the same nor would it be worth it. Oh God, I need you and I don’t want to go along without you. Continue to bless me so that I may be able to be a blessing to others. Continue to go with me so that I may continue to go for others. Continue to be just who you are God because there is no other like you. Thank you God for giving me life, thank you for giving me a fresh anointing and thank you for blessing me even when I don’t deserve it. Now, God as I submit this prayer to you I ask that you touch that person whose faith is wavering because they think you’ve forgotten about them. Whisper into their spirit and let them know that no matter how hard this road gets, they are not alone. Do it now God like I know that you can. This prayer I submit to you, this day, because I know that tomorrow is not promised. In your name I pray, amen.

Daily Devotional – 10/09/12 “God’s favor!”

Stop feeling like you’re inadequate (not deserving) to be where you are because you’ve been placed there for a purpose! Yea, see; you’re looking at the folks around you who seem to have more experience on paper but you’ve been experienced through grace. They may even have the years under their belt but you have the belt of faith tied around your waist, so you’re covered. Why do you think you’re there? You didn’t even think you would get the job but then after the second interview you realized that it was yours. No, it wasn’t because of you but it was because of whose covering you. Don’t you know by now that God’s favor precedes you? While folks are trying to figure out how you got blessed with what you got, you don’t have to explain because what is already understood doesn’t have to be.

Oh, somebody’s spirit needs to be ministered too this morning, so let me break this thang down for you. When you’re covered by God’s favor, it’ll go before you into that job interview/promotion, doctor’s appointment, car lot when you’re trying to get financed for a loan, mortgage company when you’re trying to get approved for that home you want and even to the bank when you trying to get the financial backing to start your business. Yea, when you’re covered by God’s unmerited favor (Unmerited means not deserved which means even though we don’t deserve it, God gives it anyway… I’ll give you a few moments to let that soak in your spirit.); you got collateral that doesn’t have to be appraised, you have a signature line of credit that doesn’t have to have a credit report ran on it and you have a never ending balance that will never decrease or increase with interest. This is why Ephesians 1:11 says, “In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will.” See, when God predestines us, it means that He has already decided our path, our fate, our life, our trials, our tribulations, our storms, our spouse, etc., before we were even created because predestines means to determine beforehand; preordain; to set apart for a particular use, purpose or to appoint or ordain beforehand. Isn’t this great news? God knew I would be ministering to you in this form even when I didn’t. He knew that this gift that He had blessed me with would make room for me because He had already predestined my life so when I have a momentary loss of common sense to think that I can’t, I’ll quickly snap out of it to know that I can. Will you? God has already designed your life, so trust Him and go where He sends you, say what He wants you to say, do what He wants you to do and live as He wants you to live because you are destined for greatness because He has always designed it beforehand. So believe it and then receive it!

Yea, when you’re covered by God’s favor, man can say no but God is saying keep going! When you’re covered by God’s favor, the doctors can say you’re dying while God is saying keep living. When you’re covered by God’s favor, folks can say you’ll never be nothing while God is saying you are already something. Oh, when you’re covered by God’s favor it’ll speak for you when you have no words, it’ll go for you when you have no more energy to walk, it’ll pull you up when folks have knocked you down and it’ll heal the wounds from folk stabbing you in the back. Oh, God’s favor will cover you in your storm, it’ll protect you when folks are speaking bad over your life, it’ll increase your finances when you don’t think you’ll have enough, it’ll increase your medicine when you know you should be out of it, it’ll increase the gas in your car when you know you should have run out by now, it’ll strengthen your eyesight when you can’t see in the rain, it’ll increase your energy when you couldn’t keep your eyes open while driving, it’ll increase your love for others even after you’ve been hurt so many times before and it’ll even increase your forgiveness when that’s the last thing you’ll want to do. God’s favor is having a friend close by even when you think you’re alone, it’s being full when you know you haven’t taken a bite to eat, it’s laughing when you know you should be crying, it’s loving when you know you should be hating and it’s forgiving and forgetting even when you know they aren’t even worth your forgiveness. God’s favor is flawless and it doesn’t cost an arm and leg to get. Oh, I am grateful for His favor because even when we are in our mess, it covers us; when we should be scared, it calms our fears; when we should be counted out, it makes us able to be counted on and when we should have been dead, it allows us to live. God’s favor is worthy of having and He’ll give it to you if you ask!