“PICTURE PERFECT, YOU DON’T NEED NO FILTER…”

“…Shower you with all My attention. Yeah, these are My only intentions.” That’s God singing to me yesterday on our run together through Justin Bieber. That’s the love I feel from God that I want the entire world to experience with me. I’m blown away by all the intimate love and attention I receive from Him. Like the day before yesterday, I felt God in my spirit, saying specifically to read Day 2 from my book, Keep Calm, You’re Rolling with God. Fast forward to the very next day, I called my daughter, Julie, in New York and asked her to have an appointment with God with me, reading the same book. I asked her to pick the number, and incredibly she picked, out of 366 days, the same day number 2.

This was another one of our God winks, where everything lined up a little bit too perfect to be considered an ordinary coincidence. For both my daughter and I to land on the same day 2 out of 366 days was God’s spirit speaking within us both.

My daughters are in New York, and I’m in Nigeria, but God tells me to entrust them to Him, and this was Him confirming that His invisible Presence was indeed there with my girls (HUGE SMILE). See the love I receive from God? Here’s that important message from my book I feel He wants me to share with you:

“ARISE, MY DARLING, MY BEAUTIFUL ONE, COME WITH ME” (Song of Songs 2:10, NIV)

That’s our great invitation from God, to live these extraordinary lives with Him as our Guide, Partner, Helper, Counselor, Friend, Teacher, Provider, and Father. And absolutely everyone is invited to the party! No matter how badly you think you’ve made a mess of things, God wants you close to Him. In fact, He has used all my weaknesses and wounds to show all of us a better way of living and thinking.

I love how He doesn’t force us to come; it’s like He patiently waits in the background for us to remember Him. And unfortunately, that seems to be mostly when we get ourselves in trouble and ask Him to help us get out. Then once we’re out, we place Him in the background again until the next big problem comes up.

This year, I want you to accept His invitation to follow Him in every aspect of your life with Him taking the lead and not the background role. Like a great friend said to me, “I want to remember God every moment.” This is where I want us, remembering God every second and collaborating with Him as to what He would have us to do, where He would have us to go, and even what to say. We’re not going by the ordinary rules of man, and some things He asks will take supernatural strength—like being mentally tough (fearless, focused, determined and refusing to worry), while also being loving and forgiving towards someone you want to choke.

But trust me, when you’re able to let go and surrender everything to God, handing over all disappointments and outcomes to Him, you begin to experience this miraculous life where He not only repays you for any wrongs, He helps you with any problem or challenge you may have and even comforts you when you’re hurt.

Quiet confidence will be your strength when you leave situations and circumstances in His hands. I’m talking about unthinkable lives already planned for us, which include fabulous adventures, the best people, and off-the-chart levels of wisdom, peace, happiness, and joy.
Start asking, God, what would You have me do here? This takes calming down, slowing down, and listening to His quiet whispers in your spirit. When you do, a whole new world awaits you.

Dear God, thank You for Your love and constant guidance. Pardon our sins and give us the courage to live the lives You have planned for us. Amen.

KEEP CALM—YOU’RE ROLLING WITH GOD