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?

Daily Devotional – 4/2/18 “Help or hush!”

The thoughts of domestic violence sufferers has been so heavy on me lately. I’ve never been the victim of domestic violence so I don’t know what it feels like. I’ve never had to be afraid to speak my mind to my spouse or been made to feel scared in my own home. I’ve never had to hide scars and bruises, been fearful of my spouse acting out in public places or in front of family and friends. I’ve never been in the shoes of a victim. But this isn’t what has been heavy. What I’ve been toiling with is those, who like me, have never been a victim yet they speak so freely on those who have. “She’s stupid for staying.” “Why don’t they just leave?” “It couldn’t be me.” SHUT UP! If it were easy to leave, do you not think they would? Have you ever stopped to think that maybe they don’t need your opinions but they desire your prayers? Have you stopped, even for a second, to think just maybe they are victims of abuse because they witnessed it in their home? In other words, they are repeating the vicious cycle because it is all they’ve ever known. And when people say, “Hurt people, hurt people;” it’s true. Joe Jr. is only mimicking what he saw Joe Sr. do to his mom. Sue thought the hits she received was love because it’s what she saw daddy do to momma.

This is why, when a victim of abuse comes to you, they don’t need you rubbing in the fact they’ve gone back time and time again; they simply need to know you’ll be there until they finally leave for good. Pray for them, cover them and intercede for their strength. You don’t have to join in the physical fight but are you willing to join in the spiritual war? Bible says in Proverbs 22:10, “Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.” And Psalm 11:5, “The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, And the one who loves violence His soul hates.” You may not have noticed but domestic violence starts long before adult years. There are young ladies, in high school, being abused right now yet all the guidance counselor and principal see is her acting out. Yes, every fight is blown out of proportion because those are the ones she can handle but she can’t win against the star of the basketball team. According to loveisrespect.org, nearly 1.5 million high school students experience abuse in a single year while one in ten have been purposely been hit by a boyfriend or girlfriend. Are you praying or are you opinionated? Are you interceding or instigating?

Dear God, I pray today for every victim of abuse. I ask God for you to surround them with some spiritual warriors who are willing to pray until a shift happens in their life. Send someone who may not even know their name but can sense their pain. Give a voice to somebody who is willing to intercede on their behalf, praying until the one who so easily gives abuse can be run out of their dwelling. And God, shut up the naysayers and the judgmental for we need those who can and will help, not hinder. In your name, amen.