I ALMOST MADE A MISTAKE TODAY!

And I was telling my daughter, Julie, to learn this important lesson that doubt means don’t when I almost sold a car to someone but started to feel hesitant about doing business with them. Minutes later, this old post showed up, and I believe it was God confirming that this would have been a bad move in this old post:

“IT’S NOT ABOUT WORKING HARDER; IT’S ABOUT WORKING SMARTER!”

And the smarter Nikki here has learned that I NEED GOD IN EVERY MOMENT!!! Let me tell ya, this life can get pretty rough and overwhelming, but when I remember God, looking to Him in every moment for His guidance and direction, things amazingly go far better than I can ever imagine or expect.

“It’s a practical experience!” I said to the cashier at Publix a short while ago. “You learn to discern what God is saying to you by giving Him a try. If you feel He is telling you to go in a certain direction and you go with it, test it out and see how it works out. Then, eventually, you will learn His voice clearer and more evident as to what to do and what not to do on a moment-by-moment basis.

“That deal worked out pretty good,” our manager said to me. “What was the lesson?” I asked. I reminded him about when he had initially called me in Nigeria from the US and said to him that I felt good about the customers. I felt God in my spirit, saying that we should release our car to them. After a customer recently took off with one of our vehicles without any intention of paying us for it, I’ve WISELY learned to get God involved in every deal we negotiate. If I feel doubt, the way I felt before I approved that awful deal, I now know that’s God’s way of saying, “DON’T!!!’ However, if I feel peace and a BIG YES in my spirit, that’s God saying, “Yes, this is OK to move forward with.”

So all day, I want us working smarter, not harder! It was a mission getting that stolen vehicle back, but a GREAT lesson to seek God’s face in everything I do. God’s an expert in everything! He knows EVERYTHING about a person’s intention, the future, what’s good for us, what’s not good for us. That’s why I want us RUNNING to Him 24/7, seeking His direction.

And don’t forget your alone times with God! That’s where you learn His character and the person He is calling you to be in the world. What I love about them is that I get serious wisdom in helping me to make the best decisions when I’m back out in the world. He makes me better! I’m loving my God guided life! I don’t even want to imagine where I would be without Him. He makes the difficult times bearable and the beautiful times sweeter, KNOWING HIS PRESENCE IS ALWAYS WITH ME.
I said a special prayer to Him today, “God, I need You!’ I felt Him saying back, ‘No worries, I got you!’ And He hasn’t disappointed me yet! Even with some difficulties this year, He’s turned them around; They were gifts from Him to help wake me up to my life and what He has called me to do.

“Blessed are those who mourn.” Once you get past that mourning period, you awaken to a whole new world. So even when bad and challenging times come, we know that it’s all from the hands of a very LOVING God who ultimately knows what is best for us. I’m learning to take life as a lighthearted dance with God as my fun, loving, and cool dance Partner. Will you join us? God, bring us closer to YOU!!! Amen!