Daily Devotional – 4/10/18 “Offer God!”

Church hurt is something that has become a popular conversation of an unpopular topic. The sad reality is, it’s not only church hurt that is keeping so many millennials and older folk from not being connected to a church. Do you ‘carest’ not the number of people who are longing to be in fellowship with God yet they will not set foot in the church? Do you ‘carest’ not the magnitude of young people dying without giving their life to Christ because momma didn’t know Jesus either? Do you ‘carest’ not the many who are being led astray by the Facebook Live preachers and prophets? Sure, we open the doors of the church at the funeral of a young person when we know most of them aren’t coming back on Sunday. How many times have you reached out to them, afterwards? How many meetings have you held to ask them their thoughts? And how many times have you taken action and not just notes? Look, I don’t mean to be the bearer of this heavy news but the same church you did back in 1992, isn’t sufficient in 2018. Hear me well! I didn’t say God or His word isn’t the same but if you are standing before a congregation of people, reading from the King James Version and the majority of them cannot understand it; there is a problem.

If all you do is condemn folk based on what they are wearing, there is a problem. If you consistently chastise the younger men for their tattoos, while yours are covered up and faded; there is a problem. If you berate the young women for the children they’ve had out-of-wedlock, when most of yours are too, there is a problem. If your sermons solely consist of homosexuality, brimstone and fire; there is a problem. Let’s face it, you got away with a lot of stuff back in the day because social media wasn’t as popular as it is now. Because baby, if we saw some of the videos from the ‘Freaknik’ in Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr. Park on Sunday or the drive-in movie theater; some of those demons you’ve since hidden would be public. Yes, I get it; you’ve turned over a new leaf, you’re walking in line with the word of God and you’re for real saved but don’t you remember when you weren’t? Do you not remember grandma’s prayers that saved you those nights you stood on the streets dealing drugs or bed hopped? Do you not remember those times you walked the streets out your mind and somebody prayed your healing? Do you not remember the times your marriage was on the verge of ending and someone prayed for your tail to go home? Do you not remember the depression, the cheating, the alcohol and the drugs? Do you not remember the times you stole and lied? Do you not remember praying for forgiveness a few minutes ago? All I am saying is, we have to offer God to folk, by any means necessary because I’d rather have Him and not need Him than to need Him and not have Him. Offer God and not your cash app name for a seed. Offer Jesus instead of your cute flyer. Offer them God and not your opinions.

Daily Devotional – 4/9/18 “Same tricks, new treats!”

Can we be real on this Monday? The enemy isn’t using new tricks but he’s using new treats. And you keep falling for it because it’s what you like. Take for a thought, chocolate. You like chocolate, it’s your weakness. When you go into a store, what do you see … all kinds of chocolate. Chocolate with peanuts, chocolate without peanuts, chocolate covered almonds, chocolate covered raisins, chocolate with caramel, dark chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate and plain ole chocolate. Candy makers know the world loves chocolate so all they have to do is change the treat and you’ll willing buy. And get this, sometimes it isn’t the treat that changes but it’s the packaging and because we are visible creatures, a new package catches our eye. This is why you have to know what’s on the inside even though the package may look different. Beloved, when the bible says in Second Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” This isn’t talking about the outer but the inward. We don’t become new by putting on new clothes, we become new by an inward change.

Look, the enemy feeds off your emotions and desires. The smallest of these, he can sense and he waits until your guard is down. Bible shares in First Peter 5:8, “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” Why compare him to a lion? Here is what I found out. Lions are great and hiding and are very patient. When a lion is hunting, they stalk their prey. They ensure there is an adequate hiding spot near their prey and at the last moment, they spring into action. Why do you think it took a year for old dude to show his true colors or eight months for old girl’s bad side to show? They were good at hiding. And they know what you like because they’ve either been close by and patiently waiting or they’ve stalked your social media. Beloved, be careful of tearing the package if you are not clear about the contents inside. The devils tricks don’t change, his treats do. All you have to do is look at the last few relationships you’ve been in and you will see; same tricks, new treats.

Daily Devotional – 4/6/18 “Five ways to sow effectively!”


Too many of us are perishing because we are sowing in the wrong season and people. This is why I had to share last year’s devotional. It’s longer than normal but you need to read it. Stop thinking God has forsaken you when you don’t reap. Beloved, God didn’t forsake you; you simply planted when you should have been preparing.

Here are five ways, Lakisha thinks will allow you to sow effectively.


1. You have to effectively pray in order to know what season you’re in. It is through prayer you’ll learn if the time is right to prepare or plant. If you prepare well, you’ll grow well. This is important for pastors because we have to know the season of our churches. Preaching prosperity in a season of spiritual warfare hurts the people. Know your season. “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. — Ecclesiastes 3:1”

2. Sow what you expect to reap in fertile places. I can’t plant mustard green seeds and then expect turnips in a place unprepared for my seeds. This is important for those who sow into everybody’s ministry. You have to sow into places and people who are growing what you eat, effectively. Stop sowing into dead places! If their harvest isn’t yielding for them, what makes you think they can tell you how to grow yours? “Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop–some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.- Mark 4:20″

3. You need to sow in multiples. Don’t just go to worship service. Plant seeds in bible study, Sunday school, personal prayer, devotion, time, tithe and etc. because what you don’t get from one harvest, you may just find in another. Ecclesiastes 11:6, “Sow your seed in the morning and do not be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.”

4. Protect what you plant. The same way a good gardener will protect his plants from insects, animals and etc. is the same way we have to protect our seeds from doubt, anger, negativity, people who pimp your gifts and etc. You can’t just plant the seed then leave because you might just find a patch of dirt when you get back. “Walk with the wise and become wise; associate with fools and get in trouble. – Proverbs 13:20”

5. Don’t miss harvest time! It doesn’t stop at sowing. You have to water and tend to your harvest to ensure it isn’t being eaten by bitter backbiters, the insects of ignorance or being burned by the fire of fear, stepped on by the feet of feebleminded folk and being pulled up by perverted persecutors who’d rather see you perish. You have to stay woke for the bible says in Proverbs 10:5, “A wise youth harvests in the summer, but one who sleeps during harvest is a disgrace.”

You can effectively reap when you effectively prepare then plant.

Daily Devotional – 4/5/18 “Another day is another chance!”

You cannot give up! I don’t care what it looks like, what it seems, what your natural eyes and mind is trying to get you to believe; you cannot give up. Sometimes, you have to get out and try even when you don’t know what the conditions are outside of your comfortable place. What do I mean? The other day, there was a tornado warning for our area. The temperature was warm and the sky was gray. The weather forecast was predicting all this tornadic and storm activity so my husband and I decided to stay in. Although I needed to go to the gym, we decided against it because we didn’t want to get stuck in the storm. We didn’t take the chance. But guess what happened? The storm blew through, leaving only a few droplets of rain. I should have taken the chance. Sure, there was a possibility I’d get caught in the storm but how would I know unless I got out. I didn’t take the chance.

How many of you are missing out on stuff because you are afraid to get out even though you don’t know what the conditions are? How many of you are contemplating giving up, at this very moment, simply because you are thinking about the potential of what could happen? How many times have you changed your plans based on the weather report and what they said would happen, didn’t? I’m only asking because a lot of us are stuck in comfortability because of the possibility of something happening. You’re afraid to give another relationship a chance because it has the potential to end badly. You will not apply for the job because it’s possible, they’ll deny you. You will not go to the doctor because there is a prospect of it being bad news. How will you know what the conditions are if you never take a chance? Please understand, every situation has the probability of suffering but you will never know how strong you are until your strength is tested. But as for now, you have another day, another chance. Will you take it?

Daily Devotional – 4/3/18 “Are we still rejoicing?”

Are you still celebrating the resurrection of our Savior or are you back in your sunken place because your account is overdrawn from all the stuff you purchased for Easter? Are we still in a place of being grateful for Jesus’ sacrifice or did it end after church on Sunday? I’m only asking because we should be thankful every day, not just on the day set aside to commemorate it. Look, the resurrection of Jesus is great, amazing and deserves to be celebrated but so does the suffering. We rush to get to the resurrection, to get Jesus out of the tomb but what about the suffering that happened between Thursday evening and Sunday? Because if I can be honest with you, the resurrection is great to shout folk but the Garden of Gethsemane is even greater to save folk. Sure, it’s all well and good that you know Jesus got up but do you know why He died? Yea, it’s great you preach the last 7 things Jesus said but what about why He had to suffer in the first place? I’m simply thinking that if we start from the beginning and study the true suffering of our Jesus, then we may serve Him better.

Just maybe, if we get the details, our devotion will change and maybe, if we know what He had to go through, we wouldn’t be quick to give up when we have to go through. For here in Matthew 26:38, Jesus tells the three disciples, “My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.” The bible says He went on a little farther. Far enough for Him to feel alone but close enough for the disciples to hear and see Him. For He needed them to watch with Him. He didn’t say watch out for me but He says watch with me. With, a function word meaning to participate in. He says this to the 3; Peter, James and John. The same 3 who were there during the transfiguration. A time they saw Jesus transform from being Mary’s baby, to the fullness of God. So, wouldn’t it be only right that they now be in attendance to watch WITH Him as He transforms yet again? This time from messenger to cup-bearer and sin carrier. This is what we celebrate, every day and not just on an assigned holiday. Are you still rejoicing or is it over now that the candy and eggs are gone?