Vacation

Salutations to each of you …

As I embark on the journey to the fabulous age of 41 and 20 years of marriage, my husband and I are taking a ‘VersaryMoon’ (I made that up. Lol)

I will return on Tuesday May 8, 2018.

In the mean time, you are more than welcome to look back over any devotional that has been posted. Or, if you like books, check out my Amazon PAGE for any of my new releases.

Oh, if you want to celebrate with me (birthday and anniversary is May 2), feel free to donate via …

— Cash App – $RevKisha

— PayPal – authorlakisha@gmail.com

— My favorite SHOES 🤗

— Or simply a Happy Birthday/Anniversary.

I appreciate each of you and I look forward to sharing many more blogs with you soon.

God bless.

Vacation

Salutations to each of you …

As I embark on the journey to the fabulous age of 41 and 20 years of marriage, my husband and I are taking a ‘VersaryMoon’ (I made that up. Lol)

I will return on Tuesday May 8, 2018.

In the mean time, you are more than welcome to look back over any devotional that has been posted. Or, if you like books, check out my Amazon PAGE for any of my new releases.

Oh, if you want to celebrate with me (birthday and anniversary is May 2), feel free to donate via …

— Cash App – $RevKisha

— PayPal – authorlakisha@gmail.com

— My favorite SHOES 🤗

— Or simply a Happy Birthday/Anniversary.

I appreciate each of you and I look forward to sharing many more blogs with you soon.

God bless.

Daily Devotional – 4/25/18 “Looking your worth!”

I always hear people say, “When I’m looking my worst is the time people notice me.” You know those times when you don’t have on the fancy clothes, your good wig, nice haircut and face beat. Those times when you are ‘running’ to the store, with your lounging clothes on, is when men want to talk. Or when you haven’t had a haircut but women are noticing you. Well, have you ever stopped to think, this is because they can see the real you and not what you portray? When a man can see you, in your glory and still wants to add to your story; that’s worth talking about. When a woman can see you with your dirty work clothes and hands and she still wants a chance; that’s worth talking about. Don’t misunderstand me. You are real cute with your face beat but who are you at home? Yea, you look real good, sir, in that suit but how do you look in gym shorts and t-shirt? Who are you when you go to bed because that’s who your spouse will see? Just maybe, in Lakisha’s thinking, this is the reason folk want to ‘holler’ at you when you think you look your worst. The fact of the matter is, it has nothing to do with you looking your worst but more about you looking your worth. Your real worth and not the one that can be created with clothes and makeup. The person you are, after you get home and take off your shoes and your bra. The person you are, after you get home and remove your suit and conference room talk. That’s the person people want to see. They want to see your worth and sometimes, that may be when you are looking (in your words) your worst.

“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. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!” – Psalm 139:14-17

Daily Devotional – 4/24/18 “Return on Investment!”

Today is one of those days where the enemy is trying to creep into my thoughts. See, if he gets me to second guess some stuff and worry about some more stuff; he wins. NOT TUH-DAY! What I have come to understand is this, I am not exempt. Yes, I am faithful in my walk with God. I study, pray, go to worship, preach, encourage, give when I don’t have it, go when I don’t feel like it and even pray for people I don’t know but I am NOT exempt. Yes, I am a co-pastor of a church but I also clean that same church after service but I am not exempt. What I am, I am an investor which means I may have to lose in order to win but I am not exempt from the toil. Oh but get this, everything I have had to go through was paying into my investment. Everything I have to go through, it’s paying into my investment because every now and then I get a ROI or a Return on Investment. This means, I get some stuff back for the all the stuff I have had to endure and/or pay out.

In other words …

When I suffer, I am sowing into my savings that pays off in surpluses (an amount of something left over when requirements have been met).

When I am in pain, I am planting into another project that has the potential to provide a profit.

When agony has to be my allowance, I abide because it is making my assets abundant.

When I cry, it’s simply a cost I have to compensate in order to one day get my commission.

So now, instead of wallowing in my pit, I rejoice. Instead of being upset at what I don’t have, at the moment; I rejoice knowing it’ll soon pay off. However, it’ll only pay off if I invest. If that happens to mean days of not having, so be it. If it might mean, nights of crying, so be it. If it means, losing some folk, so be it because I need a ROI and the only way I can get it, I have to first invest. What are you willing to invest in order to get a return? Understand something, it may hurt (on the front end) but it’ll be worth it when it pays off.

Daily Devotional – 4/23/18 “It has too!”

I have been sitting here looking at my screen trying to hear from God on what to share. It’s Monday and there are some folk in worse off situations than they were last Monday; can a word from God change that? There are some, who have been crying, more today than in a year; can a word from God change that? I mean, this is only a devotional, inspired by the move of the Holy Ghost but can it really reach? Then I thought, it has too. It absolutely has too because the spiritual attacks I have to endure, for people I’ve never met; it has to reach. For the sleepless nights, I have to face, because God has need of my voice; it has to reach. For the times, I’ve had to pray for people whose names I don’t know; it has to reach. See, even though this is just a devotional, lives can be changed. Understand, I don’t pen words to a blog just for followers, I don’t utilize social media for likes and neither do I write books for a millionaire status. I do what God ordains because somebody needs to get to God. And I am here, willingly being used, to ensure you get to Him, by any means necessary. Why? Because there is a cry that isn’t being heard. There is a scream in the midnight that is being missed. There is some mental illness being swept under the rug. There are some folk, who stand on large platforms but are not in right fellowship with God.

Somebody preached, real well, on yesterday and today they are being tormented by the enemy. Somebody helped someone else, last week, with their electric bill and now the one who help needs help. Somebody shouted all over the altar yesterday and still needed pills and alcohol to sleep. Somebody got up this morning, got dressed for work, all while thinking about suicide. A principal is sitting somewhere in pain but she/he is in jeopardy of losing their job so they cannot take off. A pastor is on the way to get another check advance, because the plumbing needed to be repaired at the church, but folk constantly screaming, they are getting all the tithe money. What word can stop all this hell? Here are a few. Hope. Faith. Morning. Benediction.

• Hope – “Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.” Romans 12:12
• Faith – “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1
• Morning – “But I, O Lord, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.” Psalm 88:13
• Benediction – “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.” Numbers 6:24-26

In other words. Hope in Faith that in the Morning your Suffering has no choice but to end.