GOD LOVES TO FREAK ME OUT!

This God wink started on Saturday when I had a conversation with my sister, Juanita, in the Bahamas from Nigeria. I LOVE being the big sister and sharing some of my crucial lessons from God that I feel would benefit her. God’s ways are not anything like our human ways!!! Like that very day, I felt Him saying through a Mother Teresa quote that I should love until it hurts because eventually, it will become all love, no hurt. Feeling that’s PRECISELY what God has been teaching me, lately, filled with love for everyone despite their faults and failings, focused on their positives and not their negatives.

Later on that afternoon, at exactly 20 minutes past the hour, I go to have an appointment with God on our family’s website, werollwithgod.com, reading page 20. I felt an old post there was God’s response to me and my sister’s conversation:

“‘GOD, WHAT SHOULD I SAY HERE?’

That was me looking to Him as to how to respond to a question my husband had asked. Trust me, I had LOTS to say, but with one glimpse in God’s direction, I knew He would have me to hold back those words and be kind. Nik, say anything you want to Me, but to others, practice silence. This morning, when I asked Him about it again, like God, why can’t I address this issue, I feel He had this to say:

“DO NOT EXPECT to be treated fairly in this life. People will say and do hurtful things to you, things you don’t deserve. When someone mistreats you, try to view it as an opportunity to grow in grace. See how quickly you can forgive the one who has wounded you. DON’T BE CONCERNED ABOUT SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT. Instead of obsessing about other people’s opinions of you, KEEP YOUR FOCUS ON ME. Ultimately, it is my view of you that counts…

When others treat you unfairly, remember that My ways with you are much better than fair. My ways are Peace and Love, which I have poured out into your heart by My Spirit.” – Jesus Calling”

I didn’t get a chance to send it to Juanita, though, until the next day. At exactly 3:32 pm, I sent her a message in our family’s group chat that I sent her what I felt was God’s response to our talk. Right after that, I had to quickly dress to go out with my Emmanuels (husband and sons) but said I would quickly have an appointment with God first, reading the same Jesus Calling meditation book. Can you guys believe that in this vast 700-page devotional, I opened up exactly to the page that I had quoted in that old post I sent to Juanita? The freaky thing about it was it felt like some invisible hand just took over, searching for that page until it stopped specifically there. It was crazy, y’all! Not even 30 minutes after sending that message to Juanita, God found a way to confirm it as it saying, ‘Yes, Nik, that was a message from Me!’ Wow! Wow! Wow! God is pretty talkative, let me tell ya!

I’ll never get over how intimately He is involved in our lives! From a conversation with my baby sister on Saturday, to me firmly believing that this old post was a message from Him to her, for Him to go to the trouble of actually confirming it in that devotional, just shows His deep love for us all. That all lined up immensely TOO perfectly to be considered some coincidence.

Are you getting to know God better? I promise you, no other love compares! That’s why I want us to have these appointments/alone times with God for ourselves! That quote from Mother Teresa about loving until it hurts was such a contradiction to what the world teaches, but when we stick with God’s ways (although sometimes extremely difficult!), this is how He guides us on the beautiful paths He has planned out for us. I don’t know about you, but I’m sticking with God! The message He had for me on page 20 was, ‘Relax, I got you!’ And there is nothing sweeter than going through life feeling God is my personal Security, Advisor, Partner, and FIRST LOVE. Wink! Wink!

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