“WHY DIDN’T YOU GO TO WORK YESTERDAY?”

My super son, Emmie, asked me this morning! I explained that God had some things He wanted to hash out with me. Like me struggling all the time with my sad, overwhelming, and anxious thoughts that get his momma down too often. No shame, though. I prayed and asked God for His help. ‘God, what is wrong with me?’ I cried out to Him. He lovingly came to sit and talk with me.

Like this love thing! Super difficult loving others and ourselves the way God would have us to. But He put it like this: “We love because he first loved us” – 1 John 4:19. God shows me such deep, deep, deep love that everything I do, I want to do it for His glory. So, when he says, ‘Nik, I want you to go overboard in love, forgiveness, gentleness, and patience.’ I can happily say, ‘God, ANYTHING FOR YOU!’ I love my meditation book, Yes, Father that said:

“He that loveth God, loveth also his brother. We must not be angry or crude or harsh. This is not always easy for us.”

Tell me about it! I say I fall a million times, but God helps me to get up a million and one. In fact, these falls are what push me even closer to God (Go figure). Yesterday, a friend and I had one of our sacred conversations, and I said to her that my daughter and her son have great “SYNERGY.” After feeling a bit “weak” from the fasting I’m doing with the Muslims for Ramadan, I decided to just chill and have some time alone with God reading my meditation book, Jesus Always. And of all words to show up, look what sweet message God had for me there in that weak moment (written as if He is speaking to me):

“LEARN TO LEAN ON ME more and more. I know the full extent of your weakness, and that is where My powerful Presence meets you! My strength and your weakness fit together perfectly—in a wonderful SYNERGY (Wink! Wink!) designed long before your birth. Actually, My Power is most effective in weakness. This is counterintuitive and mysterious, yet it is true.

It is important to lean on Me when you’re feeling inadequate or overwhelmed. Remind yourself that you and I together are more than adequate. To sense my nearness, try closing your hand as if you’re holding on to Mine. For I take hold of your right hand and say to you, “Do not fear; I will help you.”

That word “SYNERGY” appearing there minutes after I used it in the conversation with my friend was no coincidence. It was just a little glimmer of God’s invisible Presence there with me. It was His fun way of saying, ‘Nik, I am familiar with all your ways, and I am with you always.’ He turned that weak moment into such a priceless gift with me crucially reminded that He is my Strength and Help as I journey through this rugged and rough world, holding His hand super tight, no matter the pressures that try to get the best of me (HUGE SMILE). That’s FAITH, baby!

““Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

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YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THE DAY

GOD SINGS TO ME!!!

https://youtu.be/Oq6jgXv2tTs

LIVE IN GOD, LIVE IN LOVE

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HEALTH MATTERS

DAY 105 OF 365 DAYS OF DISCIPLINE!

DISCIPLINE IS THE WAY: God wants to remove the weeds from our hearts like bitterness, envy, jealousy, hate, greed, selfishness, temptations, evil thoughts, anger, doing and saying hurtful things and replace them with mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and PATIENCE bearing with and forgiving each other, clothing ourselves ALWAYS in love.

“LET FOOD BE THY MEDICINE AND MEDICINE THY FOOD”