GOD HIMSELF IS PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN OUR LIVES

That’s the great news I want to share with you guys! I tell you how He shows up for me so that, hopefully, you can feel His invisible Presence with you, too. Like, no shame, I have lots of pressure on me right now, and I go looking to hear messages from God through my God influencer, Ceri. Yesterday driving to work, I prayed, ‘God, I really need to hear from You right now!!!’ And He didnt disappoint!

An hour before this prayer, I read Joel Osteens emailed message for the day saying this:

““For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David, I will defend this city and protect it.” 2 Kings 19:34, NLT

This Can Be Your Legacy

Nikki, in 2 Kings 19, King Hezekiah, one of David’s descendants, was on the throne in Judah. The powerful Assyrian army was about to attack Jerusalem, and Hezekiah didn’t stand a chance. But when he prayed and asked God to help them, that very night an angel destroyed 185,000 in the Assyrian camp, and the Assyrian king went home.”

So, on that drive, I scrolled through the app where Ceri records almost daily his take on some scriptures and how they relate to our lives today. I was there scrolling, scrolling, scrolling asking God to pick the message he wanted me to listen to, and the very one I stopped on was Ceri speaking on this 2 Kings 19 about the time King Hezekiah prayed to God for help and God sent an angel to destroy 185,000 troops of the opposing army. Honestly, I freaked out listening to him speak because this was no coincidence that of all the messages I could scroll past, for me to land on that very story again, like an hour later, was again everything lining up too perfectly to be an ordinary coincidence. It’s a message to us all today: GOD HIMSELF WHO HEARD THE PRAYER OF HEZEKIAH, IS THE SAME GOD WHO HEARS OUR PRAYER TODAY.

Look at me praying in that car, feeling so overwhelmed what’s on me right now, and for God to show up and say, ‘Nik, I’m right here with you.’ And that’s the peace you cannot buy! Knowing that God Himself would go to such great lengths to make us aware of His invisible Presence with us. That message from Ceri was recorded 6 months ago, and God used it to reveal His Presence with me yesterday.

So, about all those pressures on your girl right now, I know I’m not handling them alone and they were ALL designed by God to make me stronger. I KNOW have God Himself with me, and by HIS STRENGTH, everything will be handled. It’s just for me to show up in every moment, seeking to do my utmost best by feeling in my Spirit what God would have me to do, and I leave the rest with Him to handle in the spiritual realm! We are not going by the ordinary rules!

Even down to coolant for a vehicle I was selling today, God had the customer’s friend bring out the particular coolant I needed from his car. What blew me away was that I was looking for it in our garage and praying to God for his help on what to do as the customer was just about to leave, and the friend said, “I have the very specific coolant for that car in my vehicle.” He brought out an opened bottle of it! It was again God saying, ‘Nik, Relax, I got you.’ Wink! Wink!

And He got all of us. BRING ALL YOUR CONCERNS TO HIM- THE BIG AND SMALL STUFF! Then, remember that we have His strength, favor, love, approval, support, personality, and wisdom in every moment. Are you learning His voice when you make decisions? With practice, you will learn that deep-down feeling where you know it’s God directing you. Also, I feel Ceri’s message about God resonates with me as to the person God would have me to be. That’s why I stalk him because His Godly influence about loving God and loving others is helping me make some crucial decisions on behalf of my family. I love how my beloved calendar (Mottos for Success) puts it:

“A team player thinks of his teammates whenever he makes a move, and he makes decisions according to what is better for the team, not just himself.”

“Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also the interests of others.” – Philippians 2:4