Lakisha, the Author

The Finale

Do you remember the day you stood before God, your pastor or wedding officiant, your family and friends pledging your love to the one Until Death Do Us Part?

Did you even know what you were vowing too? Here’s a sad reality. Some of us don’t.

No. Nope. I don’t have all the answers. Child, I was 21 years old without a clue of what marriage really was. Sure, I’d seen it. Had even been a part of a couple weddings. But it meant nothing when those vows called us to the carpet.

Yet, here we are 27 years later still figuring things out.

Yet, I believe God would allow me to write a series on Wedding Vows for this very reason. Again, I don’t have all the answers and these are fiction books. However, this series explores the traditional wedding vows from a Christian Fiction standpoint, just to give an idea on their meanings.

So, here’s to the finale of the What Did You Vow Series. Book 6, Until Death Do Us Part.

Get your copy of Book 6, Until Death Do Us Part

Let us pray …

God, I bind every word curse spoken against me, my family, my friends, and my church. I command every witch, warlock, familiar and monitoring spirit, enemy, temptation, principality, and demon in our midst to flee. I speak divine protection over our ears, mouths, eyes, hearts, bodies, veins, muscles, ligaments, joints, spirits, minds, wombs, and flesh. I speak healing of every sickness and disease. I demand every organ to function as it’s supposed to. Decrease swelling and inflammation. Restore blood flow and heal the incurable.

God, I speak restored life into every dry area that you’ve said shall live. I cast down and bind every evil and demonic spirit of generational sickness, traditions, abuse, bitterness, anger, resentment, jealousy, hatred, alcohol, drug, and sexual addictions, low self-esteem, fear, doubt, sexual perversion, and bullying. I declare it to be dissolved and destroyed immediately! Close any demonic portal we didn’t even know was open. Restrict the access of our enemy, clean our bloodline, and restore to us the joy of Your salvation.

God, I stand in the gap for me, my spouse, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins, sisters, brothers, parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, and friends declaring we will not die prematurely. We will live until we’ve birthed everything in alignment with Your will and die empty and fulfilled. We will live and by the blood of Jesus, we will be prosperous, healthy, whole, healed, restored, protected, and regarded.

We won’t grieve like there’s no hope. We will walk in our purpose, according to the calling on our lives. We will live righteously. We will operate in our gifts. We will be lenders and not borrowers. We will own land, businesses, homes, cars, and properties. We will be debt-free. We won’t live paycheck to paycheck, any longer.

We will plant to reap the good of the land and not grow weary in well doing. We will study Your word and pray without ceasing. We will love, harder. We will laugh, more. We will have peace. We will ask for and be forgiven. We will forgive and apologize when we should. We’ll rebuild our relationship with You, God, to be all that You have ordained.

No longer will we succumb to the taunts and temptations of the enemy. No more will we be bound by things that have plagued our bloodline. We will overcome by the blood of Jesus and we will live. Whatever happened before doesn’t matter now because it stops here.

As for me and my family, we will serve and praise the Lord. And we command it so, in Jesus’ name.

Amen.

Declare with me … #MyfamilywillLIVE

A Nugget of Encouragement

There was a time I thought about giving up on writing books. Early in my career, and even a few months back. (Just being honest.) You spend so much time crafting a story. You spend more on editing, book covers, graphics, advertising, marketing, and don’t even talk about traveling for events.

Then, after all you put out, sometimes you don’t see a return on your investment.

What do you do? You keep writing. You keep investing. You keep showing up. You keep posting. You keep praying. You keep trusting. You keep believing in your gifts.

What you don’t do. Don’t compromise. Don’t sell yourself short. Don’t stop believing. Don’t stop trusting and praying.

Because one of these days, the seeds sown will have no choice but to return a plentiful harvest. When it does, you can testify, “I almost gave up, but God wouldn’t let me.”

Here’s the encouragement to myself, but I’ll let you in on it.

“Girl, you can’t quit. Somebody needs access to the gifts within you amd if you quit they might not try.”

With God

God will indeed put more on you than you can bear! Why? Because it proves His strength through you and your faith in Him.

prove
verb
3rd person present: proves
demonstrate the truth or existence of (something) by evidence or argument.

The something is God and His word in Second Corinthians 12:9, “And he (God) said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”

How else can the strength of God be tested if we are never weak? How can we know God is strength if we never have anything heavy for Him to help us carry? Beloved, God isn’t giving you more than you can bear as punishment. He gives it because He knows you can handle it when you allow Him to help you.

Then, when asked, “How are you making it?” You can declare with your chest and head held high, “With God!”

So, if you need to know how to handle the heaviness of life. Here’s the answer. Trust God by trying Him and believing He’ll do what He promises in His word.

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