10/14/2023 0 Comments I ll hasten to his throne![]() ![]() Cause me to run to You as soon as I hear Your voice calling. "Lord, I want to honor You in all things. I will rest and be filled up with His love so I may continue to sing His praises and tell of His Salvation. I will curl up beneath the shadow of His wing and rest. ![]() When I want to throw up or give up, I will hasten to His throne. ![]() But that's right where I need to be, for now I can go in the strength of the Lord God. I will go in the strength of the Lord God."~ Psalm 71:14-16 My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness and Your salvation all the day, for I do not know their limits. The psalmist wrote, "But I will hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more. Father, fill me with Your peace and take away these fearful thoughts. Torrents of despair escaped my lips until there was nothing left but silence. I resisted again, but this time my rebellion was clothed in a great sob of release. "Come to Me, Nan, and I will give you rest." If you were to strip away everything, you’d see that Lakisha is simply a woman who boldly, unapologetically and gladly loves and works for God.But the Lord was longsuffering. LaKisha writes from the heart, and this is why she doesn’t take the credit for what God does. Business Analyst with FedEx, Devotional Blogger and more. She’s a college graduate with 2 Associate Degrees in IT and a Bachelor of Science in Bible. Pastor of Macedonia MB Church in Hollywood, MS Sr. In addition to being a self-published author, she’s also a wife of 22 years, mother of 2, Asst. Over the course of her career, she’s won the 2018 Drunken Druid Book of the Year Award for her book, The Forgotten Wife, 2019 Top Shelf Christian Fiction Book of the Year for Dear God: Hear my Prayer, 2020 Distinguished Authors Guild Award for her book, I’m Not Crazy and was a 2020 TopShelf Women’s Fiction Finalist for her book, When the Vows Break. Ask her and she’ll tell you, ”It’s not just writing, its ministry.” LaKisha Johnson is an author of thirty Christian Fiction novels, devotionals and journals. She writes from her heart, as she hopes the messages, on the pages, will relate to every reader. Nothing will injure you.” Why won’t we hasten to God’s throne? Why won’t we hasten to petition God for what we need when He has it all? Where is our faith? It’s time we changed the lyrics to our song to this …“I love the Lord, He heard my cry and pitied every groan, long as I live and troubles rise, I’ll hasten to His throne!” We might not get another chance. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.” We say we believe, we say we have faith but then we get scared to step when we see the enemy looming when the bible says in Luke 10:19, “Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. Why won’t we hasten? We say we need rest but Jesus says in Matthew 11:28, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” We say God isn’t answering but have you asked lately when the bible says in Luke 11:9, “And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. The favor of God can sometimes take away the labor all together and yet we won’t even hasten to His throne to get it. The favor of God can promote me when man says I should be demoted. The favor of God can place my name in the mouths of folk I don’t even know knew me. The favor of God can take my feet to places I didn’t even think I belonged. Yea! See, the favor of God can open doors I didn’t even know existed. Why don’t we hasten more to God’s throne? We find it so easy to grumble but we won’t get up, we play the pity part but won’t pray, we say we are hurt yet we won’t hasten to the throne of grace and mercy where our help lies! What is going on? Ephesians 3:12 says, “Because of Christ and our faith in him, we can now come boldly and confidently into God’s presence,” yet we wait, why? I don’t know about you but I need the favor of God to rest upon me because I’ve found that God’s favor helps with the labor I have to sometime endure. Why don’t we petition His throne more or why don’t we hasten to ask of Him things when the bible says in Hebrews 4:16 “Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” I mean, hasten is defined as to do something in a hurry or to make something happen quickly and as I was sitting here pondering on something to write about, this thought just happened to drop into my spirit. I wonder why we, as children of God, don’t hasten to our Father’s throne. ![]()
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