Lakisha, the Author

Daily Devotional – 9/10/18 “Let me encourage you!”

It’s Monday and for some of you the enemy has been toiling with your emotions since last Monday. He has spoken fear over your life and now you are afraid to move forward and all he has said is starting to replay in your mind. The more you think, the less you trust because your mind is saying, “maybe I won’t get healed,” “maybe I’m not cut out for this position like I thought,” “maybe I didn’t qualify for that position,” “maybe that house is out of my league,” “maybe I’m not marriage material,” and “maybe I reached beyond my potential.” Baby, don’t you know who you are? You are royalty. Do you not know the power that lies within your palms, the authority you speak with your mouth, the lineage in your loins, the gifts intertwined in your genes, the manifestation of things that can happen with obedience and the birthright you have inherited? You are fearfully and wonderfully manufactured by a God who does not make failures. Yea, you may fail, you may lose some, you may fall but you, my dear, are no failure. Get up because you have work to do, places to go and people to meet. And the next time you get down on yourself, refer to David’s words of Psalm 139 for encouragement.

Psalm 139:1-16, “O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord. You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand! I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you. You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.”

In other words, you got this!

New Book Alert – The Marriage Bed

THE MARRIAGE BED

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Lynn and Jerome Watson have been together since meeting in the halls of Booker T. Washington High School, in 1993. Twenty-five years, a house, business and three children later they are on the heels of their 18th wedding anniversary and Lynn’s 40th birthday.

Her only request … a night of fun, at home, with her husband and maybe a few toys.

Lynn thinks their marriage bed is suffering and wants to spice it up. Jerome, on the other hand, thinks Lynn is overreacting. His thoughts, if it ain’t broke, don’t break it trying to fix it.

Then something happens that shakes up the Watson household and secrets are revealed but the biggest secret, Jerome has and his lips are sealed.

Bible says in Hebrews 13:4, “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.” But what happens when life starts throwing daggers, lies, turns and twists?

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Daily Devotional – 9/4/18 “God’s plan concerning me!”

I have not written a devotional in a few days. Personal disclosure: I pray every day to never preach, pray, serve and even write a devotional, in my flesh. This is the reason there are some days when I do not publish a devotional and/or post on social media. Sure, Lakisha has plenty she can say but this thang is not about me. See, today, you could be going through the worse storm of your life and here I am posting something, from my flesh that pushes you further from God. Nope, I am not about that life. My anointing is not for me but it is for you and this is why, I had to stop by and let you all know. Understand I am not saying there will not be a devotional shared tomorrow but just in case, I needed you to know there is nothing physically wrong.

Yes, God has been working on me lately and although I do not know what He has planned, I trust Him. This is my fourth year in ministry and my seventh year blogging and I believe God is preparing me for even greater. Why? I simply believe. On the fourth day of creation, God created light, dividing day from night, marking time. Seven signifies completeness, perfection and the foundation of God’s word. Could it be, God is about to shift me, spiritually by completing some stuff within me concerning Him? Baby, I do not know but I trust Him. Anyway, I wanted to stop through and let you all know and when the time comes and He gives me a word for you, I will share it. Until then, please look back at some of my previously shared devotionals and if you need prayer, email me.

Also, check out my book, Bible Chicks: Book 2. It is the stories of Hannah, Gomer and Jezebel. As well as Bible Chicks: Book 1, written by Khara Campbell, with the stories of Woman with the issue of blood, Rehab, Leah and Tamar.

Blessings.
Lakisha ♥

Daily Devotional – 8/29/18 “Four years + one day!”

I tried to write this on yesterday but God would not release it until today. A day whose date deemed worthy of displaying on my right wrist. See, it was four years + one day ago, on 8/28/2014, I stopped running from God’s call on my life but it would be the day after that my life begin to align with God’s will. I have shared this testimony before but I could not let this day pass without giving somebody hope for today. No, I am not about to sell you a fairy tale because I need you to sow into me. I am not about to convince you that saying yes to God will erase all your troubles. What I will share is how ME saying yes, restored what I did not even realize was broken. I spoke yes and it stitched me when I could not see I was bleeding. I stood in the bathroom stall at work, crying and apologizing to God for all the time I had wasted while giving Him my yes. I knew I was tired but still trying to fight. Weighed down and wounded yet still trying to act like all was good. I was at the edge. Then I said yes. Has it always been good? No because I am attacked more today. Has it always been easy? No because there are days, I do not feel like being holy. Has it always been fair? No, but it has been all God. It was four years + one day ago, everything shifted in my life for the better. What does this mean today? Truth is, I do not know. Bible shares, it was on the fourth day God divided day and night. There are four seasons and four synoptic gospels. Four signifies stability, order and completion. While I wish I could say what this fourth year will bring, I cannot but I will say, I am still trusting God with my yes. Why? Because He has not failed me yet. Although I have seen some deaths, experienced some sickness and some losses; I still trust God with my yes. Why? Because these last four years have nothing on the times, I was playing with God.

See, the times before the yes, I had religion but no relationship with God. The times before the yes, I had become good at wearing my mask. The times before the yes, we were barely surviving but I dare not show you my struggle. Oh but four years + one day later! Four, my marked sacred time, my year of completeness after God has worked out all the residue of my past hurts, scar tissue, unhealed wounds and unsaid words of forgiveness. Four, the year God thrusts me into the fullness of His anointing and I do not even know what it means yet I trust Him. Four, when God separates me from the darkness. Four years + one day marks the year I stopped playing and started, for real, praying. Four years + one day signifies the year I walked into the light of God’s word and for real started trusting Him. Some of you have read my testimony but it was four years + one day ago that we packed up our apartment and moved without a destination because God said it. It was four years + one day ago that we struck out on faith without knowing where we were stepping. I trusted God with my yes then and I trust Him with my yes now. What about you? Sure, you could have already given God your yes and it still feels like the enemy has made your house, his home. You could be in your 14th year and still dealing with temptations, being overlooked, overworked and underpaid. This could be your 24th year and the worst of them all, I do not know but trust God. Because I hear God saying, “But I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers. Luke 22:32.” It has been four years + one day for me and I am still saying yes, what about you?

Daily Devotional – 8/27/18 “Worship when it doesn’t make sense!”

August 27, 2018 and somebody, somewhere is thinking over the toils of your life. You tried writing your troubles but your hand got tired and paper ran out. You’ve tried to budget your money but it still runs out before the month. You’ve been faithful to worship but worrying is still keeping you up. You stood at the altar, cast all your burdens on the Lord and you’re still being weighed down by the woes of life. Tithing and still being terrorized by the enemy. When will it get better? When will the pain stop? When will people stop misusing and abusing me? When will something, anything, change in my favor? All questions you have pondered night after night and in the midst of day. Well, I wish I had the solution to your situation, the cure to your calamity, the answer to your affliction, the fix to your fight and the therapy to your troubles but I don’t. What I can tell you is this … do not stop worshipping! I don’t care what it looks like, worship when you cannot understand. When bills are due and you don’t have the money; worship. When sickness attacks your body and the news is grim, worship. When your name is being lied on, worship. When children acting out, worship. When death has shown up more times than you can handle, worship. When the car been repossessed, calls of foreclosure, cut-off notices and overdue bills; worship. Car will not start after putting your last into it, worship. When it seems like depression has a death grip on your life, worship. Worship, even when it does not make sense. Why? Because worship + faith has the ability to work some things in your favor.

Come here Canaanite woman. She goes to Jesus because her daughter is possessed by a demon. She cries but Jesus ignores her. Disciples saying send her away because she is bothering us and Jesus replying, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” In which she, Bible shares in Matthew 15:25, “Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.” She knelt down in worship only to be called a dog. An unpleasant name that should have offended her but while she is still on her knees before Him, she replies, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.” Matthew 15:28, “Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.” This woman worshipped even when it did not make sense. What didn’t make sense? Number one, her ask of Jesus because Canaanites claimed to not believe in Him and what He preached. Number two, her ability to worship Him in the open where folk could see her and despite the disciples talking about her. Number three, her willingness to stay in the worship position after being called a dog. It did not make sense but she had a need. Are you willing to worship, even when you do not understand, to get what you need from God? Can I get you to worship God, even when folk are telling you to curse God and die? Can I get you to worship while in your storm when folk are saying you should be taking cover? Can I just get you to worship? Because worship + faith has the ability to change the outcome.