That was me to my brother, Kevin, and our family friend, Ceri! After someone commented that it seemed as if I worshipped Ceri, I’ve been thinking about how Kevin’s and Ceri’s messages have tremendously helped me!!! Kevin taught me to stay in the ring, even if it meant staying beyond the 10,000th punch (WHO ADVISES STUFF LIKE THIS?). Ceri showed up to help me figure out WHY I should take the punches (not real punches, by the way) from an Almighty God (Biblical) perspective so that I could share these valuable lessons with you guys. I HEAR GOD CLEARLY THROUGH BOTH OF THEM! No joke!
Like both have lovingly corrected me about a severe distraction I have going on. Ceri continually said, “Nikki, you have kids! You have kids! You have kids! You’re carrying this thing around too much! Let go and let God! Give God an opportunity to be God.” Then Kevin brutally said, “Neeks, this thing is consuming you to the point that you’re even neglecting your children.” Ouch! Now, God has joined them in asking me to let go of this matter entirely and turn it over to Him.
This God wink started yesterday in the middle of my run when I felt God saying to sit and have an alone time with Him. It was 47 minutes past the hour, so I went to page 47 of our website, and this verse showed up:
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.” – Hebrew 12:1
God knows everything about us and understands that this issue has been consuming His girl here too much. I immediately knew this was God speaking to me! Fast forward to going to work a few hours later, this randomly showed up in my calendar, Mottos for Success, that God speaks to me through:
“If you want God to take care of your difficulties, then you need to let go of them and give them to Him (Wink! Wink!). Tell Him that you’re going to trust Him to work it out.” –
“Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us walk with endurance the race that is set before us” – Hebrews 12:1 (Wink! Wink!)
No coincidence that of 365 days, God had me go there! I decided to reshare that entire post, feeling it was God’s message to the world that we should let go of anything holding us back.
But what really freaked me out was in the middle of the run today, I AGAIN STOPPED TO HAVE ANOTHER APPOINTMENT WITH GOD. This time, though, I went to read page 20 of our website, but a glitch (God!!!) ended up cutting out the zero in a link that I use to pick out specific pages, and I ended up going to page 2. Unbelievably, at the very top of that page 2 was a YouTube video of one of Ceri’s Breakfast and the Bible talks where he incredibly shared, of all verses in the entire Bible, he spoke on this very Hebrews 12:1! God, I’ve gotten the message loud and clear!!! Nikki, stop obsessing over this thing! God corrects those He loves! (HUGE SMILE)
Once again, these all lined up too perfectly to be some ordinary coincidences. THEY WERE ALL DIRECT COMMUNICATIONS FROM GOD HIMSELF! Even looking back on some advice from Kevin from a few months ago, I’m completely blown away. Kevin said, “This is a no-brainer!” All I can tell you guys is THANK GOD I LISTENED TO KEVIN!!! God is the ULTIMATE STRATEGIST AND PLANNER, and I listened to Kevin’s advice, even though it was tough to do, and God has once again exceeded my expectations! If I didn’t, oh my goodness, it would have been a total disaster!
THE WISDOM, LOVE, PEACE, JOY, AND COURAGE YOU CANNOT BUY KNOWING YOU HAVE GOD ON YOUR SIDE!!! Make sure you are developing a relationship with Him!!! What sin is entangling you and needs to be thrown off? Let’s run with endurance the race that God has set before us, being the people in the world He would have us to be, AND TELL GOD YOU WILL TRUST HIM TO WORK OUT SITUATIONS BEYOND YOUR CONTROL. Amen!