“I PREFER READING YOUR BOOK”

That was surprisingly my son, Emmie, last night when I asked him what we should read for an appointment with God. To hear him say he preferred reading, ‘Keep Calm, You’re Rolling With God,’ made this mama super happy. He said because it’s real stories about my life TODAY with God that he relates to.

That’s the plan! That I share up to the very moment, current information about God that, hopefully, you can tap into and use to make your life INFINITELY BETTER (Wink! Wink!) KNOWING that God is our loving Partner who is always with us.

Like today, in my WhatsApp message to some groups in Africa, I shared a very small portion of my meditation book, Yes, Father:

“Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? (Acts 9:6) Let us be prepared for hints, the calls, the whisperings of the Lord, with a spiritual clairvoyance, keenness of hearing and delicacy of feelings. Let us see in every moment and in what it brings the will of God and strive to accomplish it to the best of our knowledge and power. This is the greatest and most perfect thing we can do at any moment.”

I used my getting our business back on track as a way to explain how this little, yet deep and profound paragraph has helped transformed our operations:

It was a day we debated in the office whether to refresh some of the exterior signs to include the words, “In God we trust.” I’m this God maniac here, but I thought I might be going a little bit overboard by including it. But a new person, I had just hired said, “Let’s do it to honor God.” And we did! So all over that business, you will see those words, “In God we trust!”

But the real impact of those words came when that same person made a decision I didn’t so much agree with, and I said to him, “You were the one who said that we should put those words “in God we trust” on our signs. That means before every decision we have to ask, “Is this honoring God? Are we reflecting God in a positive way?”

I believe that honoring God has been the turnaround! I’m happy to report that that business that has been such a burden is on a profitable track again (Praise God!) because we’ve decided that we want to run it according to a standard where we aim to make Papa God proud. In every decision (not that we get it right all the time), we seek His will, ‘God, what would you have us to do here?’ and astonishingly, things are going better than expected. Yesterday, I had to give some reporting to my husband, and honestly, I was so proud, thanking God, who has been giving us the guidance needed to even run a successful business. God is too much!

But like the book said, “Let us be prepared for hints, the calls, the whisperings of the Lord, with a spiritual clairvoyance, keenness of hearing and delicacy of feelings.” For us, that means following our instincts and gut feelings.

Like yesterday, in purchasing new inventory, the selections that my husband picked out, I asked our manager for his input on them before buying. We have a thing where we go by our excitement level. Between a 0 and a 5, with 5 meaning extremely excited. Because I’ve learned that those feelings are God’s way of communicating with us (a delicacy of feelings). When we looked at a particular one, we felt feelings of doubt. I said, “Doubt means don’t!” But another vehicle we gave a 5 because we were excited about it and felt it was God’s way of saying, ‘Yes, this is a good one!’ Let me tell ya, God is an expert in everything, and He knows what we don’t know, so taking the time to pause and go to Him before buying has been extremely beneficial.

Another crucial aspect of this business has been problem-solving. Boy oh boy, a used car business has its challenges! Again, that has been where we wisely get God involved! I’ll never forget a time when a customer, paid us $20,000 for a vehicle. Can you believe two times, they sent someone to pick it up, and it refused to move? Oh my goodness, what do we do here? I was able to calm the customer down and asked them to be patient with us. The very next morning, God gave me specific instructions – the whisperings of the Lord – to take it to a nearby Mercedes Benz dealership. Just very strongly in my spirit, I felt him say it. Unbelievably, the technician detected that it was only a small little part costing $13 that was blocking the communication between the engine and the computer. We were able to fix it, and the vehicle was driven like 5 hours to the customers, no problem. Again, God is an expert in everything! He knew the problem was that $13 part, and even though we had some other places to take it for repairs, God said no, take it specifically here.

“Let us see in every moment and what it brings the will of God and strive to accomplish it to the best of our knowledge and power.” We have this motto that we do our best, and then we leave the rest with God. Our manager made me so happy when he said that a customer that purchased on Saturday was a deal sent by God. He just saw God’s hand in the entire transaction. From him and the customer having the same name. To them being from the same city and knew some people in common. To the customer saying he had to leave but ended up getting a phone and ended up staying. To them getting a first approval from the bank but the payment was too high to suddenly them getting an approval from another bank that was a much cheaper payment that the customer was happy with. He saw God’s hand all over the deal the way everything worked out.

Our call from God has just been to show up every day, give our best (dancing lightheartedly with God), and He will do the rest, including bringing us the best customers. Even the customers who owe us money, we see them faithfully coming in to pay us, no problem. The customers come in prepared with everything we need to get the deals funded by the banks. Like on a completely different level, we see customers show up, and it’s just been amazing watching God in action. DO YOUR BEST AND LEAVE THE REST WITH GOD!

There was a day I was feeling overwhelmed by everything, and I opened my meditation book, with this verse showing up:

“We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.” – Romans 8:28

I knew this was a wink from Him reminding me that He was indeed MY PARTNER in this business, and I should just BE STILL, RELAX and KNOW that He was taking control of the situations. Everything I was worried about that day ended up working out better than I had expected!

God is our Partner in every aspect of our lives! Is just for us to start learning His voice and what He would have us to do on a moment-by-moment basis, paying attention to those feelings and those whisperings from Him. Then putting into practice these words from Jesus, ‘Yet not my will, but Yours be done.’ Have your appointments with Him every day and make walking with God your priority! I promise you, you won’t be disappointed!

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