GOD’S spirit lives WITHIN HER

MB MAGAZINE: “Who was the primary spiritual leader in your life growing up?”

ALEXIS SKYY: “My grandma. I came from a good family. I grew up in a very strict household in Jamaica and attended school at a church until I was around the age of six or seven years old. My grandma always kept us in the church. It was very different than church in the United States. In Jamaica church has more rhythm to it. It’s hard to explain it, but the services are livelier in song and dance. Growing up, whenever things went wrong, my grandma would always pray. I was young then, and I did not really understand too much about God. I built my relationship with God as I got older.”

MB MAGAZINE: “When did you first start forming a relationship with God?”

ALEXIS SKYY: “Well, I returned to the United States when I was around seven years old. I built my relationship with God in my own time as I got older. As a child I didn't really understand much about God. I knew His presence was around me … but not really. I would ask questions like, ‘Where is God? Where is He at? I don't see Him.’ I knew of Him because I grew up in the church and because my grandma and my mom would always talk about, ‘God this and God that...’ But I was like, ‘Well, where is He? Why can't I talk to him like I'm talking to you?’”

“I always believed in God, it wasn’t until I got much older that I had an encounter with God. That’s when I knew that He is real.”

MB MAGAZINE: “Let’s talk about that encounter.”

ALEXIS SKYY: “Okay. I had my daughter prematurely [at five months]. Doctors told me that she wasn't going to ever be able to walk and that she wasn't ever going to talk. They told me that she would not be able to do a lot of things. I was like, ‘Okay.’ From that moment I started living in fear. All I could think was, ‘Wow. She's really not going to be able to do this or do that ...’ And then one day I was like, ‘You're going to walk!’ I started praying for her and kept praying. I told myself that I was going to keep praying, praying, and praying for God to do something.”

“Then one day I was sitting on my couch, and I was like, ‘God, please just give her the strength to use her legs to walk.’ Then, I put my hands on her and she walked.”

MB MAGAZINE: “That’s quite amazing! How old was your daughter when she took her first steps?”

ALEXIS SKYY: “She was two years old. She was well within the normal age range for children without complications to walk. She was crawling very well, but we could not get her to balance on her feet. I just kept praying, and then one day that I prayed we tried balancing her on her feet. I gave her a little push and she just went. She never stopped walking since that day. In that moment I was like, ‘God is real.’”

MB MAGAZINE: “What did that experience teach you about faith?”

ALEXIS SKYY: “Prior to that moment, I always would be like, ‘Oh, I love God,’ but I didn't have faith in Him to know that He is able to do things, like heal people. So it was that moment that grew my faith and caused me to believe in Him. That moment showed me how powerful the tongue is. So now I just leave my worries to Him.”

MB MAGAZINE: “So, your daughter, Lay Lay is five years old now?

Have you consistently seen God move in her life as a result of your prayers?”

ALEXIS SKYY: Yes. My daughter Alaiya Grace is five years old now. She has had four brain surgeries, but she’s still talking. That’s something that the doctors said that she would never do. She’s talking too much (jokingly)! She is a diva. I'm blessed that she's talking now. When I hear her, I’m like, ‘I got to be thankful that my baby is even speaking given all the trauma that her brain has been through.’ I am thankful to see how much strength she has to be so young. She’s been through so much. She is a walking testimony.”

“When she grows up she will be able to literally tell people that, ‘When I was a baby, doctors told my mom that I wasn’t ever going to be able to walk or talk. But look at what God has done for me!’ When I take her to church on Sunday, she be right in concert with everybody else, singing and talking about ‘Yes, Jesus! Yes!’ My baby has that anointing on her.”

MB MAGAZINE: “I saw that during one of your recent Bible studies, she kept declaring with excitement, ‘God is everything!’ You are setting a fine example for her through your life. The Bible encourages us to ‘Train up a child in the way they should go and when they get old, they will not depart from it.’ So, it’s refreshing to see how you are training Alaiya. What are you teaching her about developing a prayer life?”

ALEXIS SKYY: “Praying has always been a thing for me. However, I had to learn how to be consistent with praying and not just praying when things were going wrong. I had to start praying every day, versus saying, ‘Hey, God. It's me today. I'm upset because of …’ Now, I just wake up and thank God for even waking me up. Prayer has become a constant in my life. It’s a habit, and Alaiya gets to see this in me every day.”

MB MAGAZINE: “Since being reconciled, has there been any change in your approach to parenting?”

ALEXIS SKYY: “Things have drastically changed for me. The old Alexis was on mommy mode Monday through Thursday, cooking breakfast every morning and getting Alaiya ready for school by 7 a.m., and at noon I would have me-time. Around 1 p.m. I would switch back to mommy mode. During a typical week, I would be either catching a flight for work [filming or hosting events] on Thursday or Friday; then I would return home on Monday.”

“Now that I have given up a lot of things, I’m able to be a full-time mom to my daughter.”

MB MAGAZINE: “How do you feel about that?”

ALEXIS SKYY: “I’m excited. I have my daughter with me seven days a week now, and I’m working on getting her passport. So, if I do want to take a little trip somewhere, I’m taking my baby with me. I want to do things differently. I think it’s important that she gets the time she needs with me because her father is not present. I don’t want her to grow up feeling like, ‘My mom wasn't there and my dad was not there, so my grandma is raising me.’ I also don’t want her to be confused by a mom who comes in and out of her life, whom she does not get a chance to know. Even now she tells me, ‘Mommy, I want to come.’ She is at an age now where she can travel with me. So, I'm like, ‘You know what? It's me and you, baby. Why not?’”

MB MAGAZINE: “Now that you have made this transition in your life, is there anything you are afraid of?”

ALEXIS SKYY: “Everything.”

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