Lashanti R.

So, you like him? Or... Do you like the idea of him? Girlllll.....you better make sure! Cuz there is a difference.. So you recently met this guy who is outrageously gorgeous! Or he may be alright but he's got swag and a nice looking bank account! He may be driving the flyest car around and dressing for the kill. That ain't your story? Okay...let's try this one... The guy you're talking to may not have all of those things but he DOES dream of becoming a rapper one day and getting all of his homies out the hood. He still lives with his momma, with NO job but he's gonna "make it". So he spew out all of his dreams of becoming famous one day all while He's sitting at home doing absolutely NOTHING to get there. But you like it. You don't like him. You like it. You like the idea that you could be the one-day wife of a famous rapper. You like the idea that you could possibly be the one riding around in that nice car. You dream about all of th...

Before you get the wrong idea, let me just go ahead a place things in perspective: "For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called." So no, this blog isn't going to be about you being ready for your future "earthly" husband, but rather, Your Maker. It wouldn't be loving of me to help prepare you for everything else except the return of Christ. If this blog would have been about preparing you for your earthly husband, and I gave you all the advice I could give and all the practical steps I could think of, what would happen if Christ came back the day before your wedding? Would you have been prepared for that ultimate  Union? Now I'm not saying that you shouldn't prepare for your future husband. I truly believe that we should at least be ready to be a wife before we jump in a marriage. But I ALSO believe that when we focus on being more like C...

There's such a heaviness on my heart as I write this post.  I was scrolling on Instagram, as usual, knowing I should be getting ready for bed! I stopped specifically at this photo of a well known young girl who has well over 350,000 followers on Instagram. In this photo was a picture of her wearing "booty" shorts and a shirt that is considerably a crop top. In the caption of this photo she talked about how GRATEFUL she is that the Lord had transformed her and that she came a long way. She basically wrote a long caption about the power of being changed by having a relationship with Jesus. With the exception of a few things, the post was very inspiring.      She said something a little controversial in her post and I gave in to the temptation of checking out the comment section. I didn't find what I was looking for. Instead of them bashing her (with the exception of a few), I saw comments like this: "I want to change, where do I start???" "I...

As you lay, remember: In Christ ... You ARE important. You ARE necessary.  You HAVE purpose. Most importantly, You ARE loved. Those bold letters are present tense for a reason. I want you to understand that there is nothing that you have to do in order to attain those things. You don't  have to fight to be important . You don't have to fight to be necessary . You don't have to fight to have purpose . You are effortlessly loved by God. God doesn't have to manipulate His love for you. When He looks at you, He sees you now. Not who you use to be. Not who you're going to be...BUT the YOU right now, in this moment! You are loved right where you are. You ought to just rest in knowing that!  Tonight, I'm just reminding you of what you already know. I just wanted to confirm that little bit of hope in your heart that seems to be speaking to you so softly while the lies scream at you! You are beautiful and you are LOVED! Believe that. "Who s...

There are going to be certain times in your life where you will have to vary off on a different road from those who you started off with. In this moment, I don't want you to think that you are incapable to keep people around. I don't want you to carry around the feeling of inadequacy. Instead, I want you to shift your perspective in such a way that you no longer see the situation through your eyes. I want you to look at it through the eyes of Jesus. The mere fact that your walk and journey with Him is so great that there is only a limited amount of people that can go with you. This doesn't indicate that the person was a bad person, its just that you are going to go places that they are not simply qualified to go. Am I suggesting that God singles out people who have special roads that the people around them have to measure up to go on? Well, in a sense. They just have to fit the purpose. The people that Jesus kept around Him wasn't perfect but they fitted the purpose i...

I a lmost always cringe with embarrassment every time I think about how much of a mess I was after my ex-boyfriend and I broke up. The break-up was not initiated by me and although I knew we didn't need to be together, I was comfortable. In my heart I knew that God wasn't being honored in that relationship, and had warned me quite a few times to get out. But I just couldn't do it. I mean, well I could...but let me just be honest with you: Sometimes it's just plain hard to obey God, whom you can't see, vs a man that's sitting in your face. I was choosing a human over God! Now had I had been a mature christian... I would have obeyed quickly because I know that Christ is realer than anything in and out of my life AND humans are purely dust with souls that have to answer to Him. So, November 2, 2013 I surrendered that relationship to God. I told God that I was going to serve Him whole heartily and that I no longer wanted to be half way committed to Him. I had ...