Daily Devotional – 5/23/18 “You’re still hungry!”

Stop trying to fit in at tables that cannot accommodate your diet. DIET = Desires, Intelligence, Expectations and Taste. If you do, you take a chance of leaving still hungry. HUNGRY = Hurt, Uninformed, Neglected, Guarded, Rebellious and Yoked. Why? Because you’re sitting in places that cannot meet the needs of what you are yearning for. Think of it like going to a restaurant with a group of folk. You didn’t pick the place and it would have never been your choice but you’re trying to fit in. You get there, look over the menu and nothing is there you’ll eat, let alone try. But hey, you’re trying to fit in. You order an appetizer of something that sounds good, only to get it and it looks nothing like the picture or the description. Two hours later, you leave still hungry but there is nothing else open and you don’t have groceries at home. (Are you following me?) When you continually sit in places that cannot or do not meet your dietary needs, you are not satisfied. This is why you leave worship, on Sunday, dressed real nice but still filled with hell. This is why you look happy but inwardly you’re a mess. This might be the reason you cannot focus. You’re still hungry.

Get this though. It’s quite possible you’re sitting at the right table but ordering from the wrong menu. You’re ordering steak, from the adult menu, when you should be ordering mac and cheese from the kid’s because you’ve yet to grow up spiritually. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 3:2-3A, “I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, for you are still fleshly.” Don’t get mad at me, I’m just the messenger. But beloved, you need to figure out why you are still hungry. Are you sitting at the wrong table, eating the wrong thing or just plain stubborn? Why can’t you focus? Why can you not do what you know God’s has called you to do? Are you still hungry because you can’t get full or are you eating, getting temporarily satisfied only to be hungry minutes later?

THANK YOU!

Each day I am grateful.
 
— Grateful to God for His unwavering grace and mercy, towards me.
 
And I am appreciative to ALL of you who support Lakisha, in every capacity. Whether it is liking a post, sharing a post, buying a book, inviting me to your worship service, adding me to your calendar, following my blog or simply praying for me … THANK YOU!
 
Thank you doesn’t seem adequate enough but know that my heart is full of gratitude towards you. 💖
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THANK YOU!

Each day I am grateful.

— Grateful to God for His unwavering grace and mercy, towards me.

And I am appreciative to ALL of you who support Lakisha, in every capacity. Whether it is liking a post, sharing a post, buying a book, inviting me to your worship service, adding me to your calendar, following my blog or simply praying for me … THANK YOU!

Thank you doesn’t seem adequate enough but know that my heart is full of gratitude towards you. 💖

Daily Devotional – 5/21/18 “Grace!”

For the last two months I have been experiencing dizziness. The kind that stops you in your tracks however, you wouldn’t know unless I told you because I press through. Not because I have to prove that I am strong but I refuse to be limited by something, even the doctors cannot figure out. This morning though, I almost felt defeated. After looking the doctor in his eyes as he says, “All your test are normal,” I almost felt defeated. As I listened to him explain what it could be, I almost felt defeated. As he scheduled yet another test, I almost felt defeated. Then I remembered Paul and his thorn and I whispered, “God, your grace is sufficient for me.” As I drove, I said a little louder, “God, your grace is sufficient for me.” Please understand me, I do NOT believe this is God’s way of punishing, testing my faith, trying to keep me from being conceited or anything like this. Whatever this is, it is because we live in fleshly bodies that sometimes fail us by way of sickness. Do I claim it? No but the reality is, it may be something the doctor calls Vestibular Migraines. Do I believe God can heal it? I do with my whole heart but while I wait, I repeat “God, your grace is sufficient for me.”

I just need somebody to know today, God’s grace is sufficient for you too. Even while you’re hooked up to another chemo or dialysis machine, while you wait on word of your transplant, while you wait for God to open your womb, while you wait for your pain to reside or your sight to be restored, while you wait on the surgery or the test results; know that God’s grace is sufficient for you because His power is made perfect when we are weak. In other words, God’s strength is put to the test every time we are weak. God’s strength is evaluated every time weakness attacks our body. It’s not that God has doubt in His strength but each time you are weak, He gets to run a diagnostic test in order to prove to YOU His strength is still able. So, we cannot give up because God’s grace is sufficient for us. What is grace? An acquittal when we know we’re guilty, love when we don’t deserve it, protection when we are in our mess, a harvest although we haven’t planted any seeds, forgiveness even though we continually mess up, strength when we try to play strong and healing from a God some of us have yet to become faithful too. Grace is a demonstration of God’s power so that you know it was Him and not man. God’s grace is enough, beloved. Enough for you to keep on and not give up.

Daily Devotional – 5/17/18 “Reality is …they may not like you!”

Beloved, I don’t mean to be the bearer of bad news but not everything you do or say will be liked and accepted by everybody. Sure, we want every sermon to be loved, every book to be all five-star reviews, every product you sell to be a hit, every status you make to go viral, every picture to be liked and every event sold out but this is not the reality of life. Fact is, some folk will not like anything YOU produce. Fact is, some folk will never agree with what YOU say. Fact is, there are some folk who will not show up because YOUR name is on the flyer. Baby, you can have a free event with all free food and drinks and some people still will not attend. You can giveaway some stuff and they still will not come. Why? BECAUSE IT’S YOU and they cannot understand why you are being blessed the way you are. Although they don’t see the nights of no sleep, the overdrawn checking account to ensure all goes right, the times you’ve begged God to take the oil from you or how hard you are on yourself. All they see is the anointing and they assume. While they talk about you in group text and pray for your downfall, they don’t know you’re almost at your wit’s end. And here’s is the even harder part… you cannot take it personal.

Here’s my story. Everybody doesn’t like me. I used to try to figure it out but then I quit because I don’t serve to be liked but I serve in order to save lives. I don’t write books for the awards but I do so because it’s part of my anointing. I don’t post on Facebook, for the shares but I do so because you might need encouraging. I don’t need to go viral but I need you out of your valley. I don’t blog because I have nothing else to do, I blog to get you to Jesus, by any means necessary. I don’t need a pulpit, a conference or revival; I will share Jesus wherever I am. This is why I don’t get upset about the invitations that haven’t been extended because no man can stop what God ordains. I don’t know who this is for but sometimes you will not get the support of folk, publicly. Sometimes, your family will be the last to congratulate you. Sometimes, the friends you supported will not return the favor. The truth of it is, they may not know how or be in a place to do it. Stop assuming everybody is on your level, has the same heart and compassion as you or the ability to support the way that you do. And please, don’t allow your support of others to be what you used to gauge how others support you. Support because you want to and not so you get it in return. Reality is, you might not.