Lashanti R.

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 ...

Okay, So I was reading the book of First Samuel the other day. Some of you may be familiar with that story, but I had a little encounter with God and that story was used to convict me of a little situation...(lol) To be honest, I did not plan to study the book of Samuel this week! I was so into the New Testament and studying the characteristic of Jesus, so I knew it had to have been God that led me back to the Old Testament. Okay so, I attend a really big school, and although I have completely gave my life to Christ, with the evidence of a CHANGED life, I am still human . So truth be told, when this cutie walked pass me and gestured me in some way, you best believe my next prayer was, "LORD is he the ONE?". Yes, girl..It was that deep. (LOL) So anyway: I assume that God was so not down with that, I mean, who does that anyway? It's crazy how we are when it comes down to guys. So, we get saved and make the decision that we're no longer gonna date guys that pull us...