“YOU GUYS ARE FOCUSING ON THE WRONG THING!!!”
This WhatsApp group keeps asking me the name of my God. I said ‘My God is God!’ and I started to get really annoyed with them, to be honest with you, but then a group member asked these crucial questions:
“How can one maintain a relationship with God? What way? How?”
Now you are talking my language because that’s my beautiful assignment from God I have to teach you guys precisely this! The first step is sincerely asking God for a closer relationship with Him. I said the best prayer over 15 years ago, ‘God, I want a closer walk with You!’ God hasn’t disappointed me. As I take one step closer to Him, it’s like He takes one hundred steps towards me.
Next, we must have some spiritual practice where we take quiet alone times by ourselves to hear from God and learn His voice, values and principles for our lives. I have an entire morning God routine! This morning, I listened to my daily Ceri (my God influencer!) motivation playlist on our We Roll With God YouTube channel. I don’t play with these recordings because my mind is my own worst enemy, and if I don’t keep reminding myself of these messages from Ceri of God’s Presence with me, my mind literally gets stuck on the same negative, sad, and depressing thoughts all day.
Honestly, it’s a big struggle for your girl, but like my brother, Kevin, told my mom today, ‘Don’t worry about Nikki; she will get better every day.’ As I reprogram my mind with messages from Ceri of joy, peace, love, forgiveness, strength, courage, working on being better every day, and not allowing my mind to drag me down, slowly, the depressing thoughts are going away. It hasn’t been easy, though, but every day, like Ceri taught me, I get up and work on myself.
He repeats to me every day that I can pray for the strength to be strong for the people who are counting on me. Like my son, Joshie, who listened to one of the messages today and called me saying, “Mommy, I learned to be strong and courageous.” LISTEN TO THOSE MESSAGES FROM CERI!!! I feel like I hear from God directly about the wife, mother, and person He would have me to be in the world through Ceri’s messages because they are based on biblical/spiritual principles.
This sermon from Bel Air Church has also become my crucial mindset:
“Jesus (God), what is your perspective on every moment of my life? Every relationship. Every decision. Every circumstance. And how can I enter into it to glorify you?”
Down to every thought, I want us to involve God! Like Ceri is teaching me about forgiveness. Your girl is back beating her head with a stick after I saw a lady in my rearview mirror patting her head as I looked back at her yesterday. Believe it or not, this was a sign from God that He wants me to get back there of beating my head when my mind gets stuck on unforgiveness. Ceri said we must switch those thoughts of unforgiveness to thoughts of our blessings instead because they keep us down. I honestly can tell you that I am not my best self when I don’t forgive. Ceri shared this message on his wall today:
“One of our most important responsibilities is to keep our heart pure. It’s easy to let what’s on the outside get on the inside. It takes discipline to say, “I’m not going to dwell on that offense…” Maybe you need to forgive somebody… You only have so much emotional energy each day. It’s not an unlimited supply. Do you know how much energy it takes to hold a grudge, to go around offended? That’s wasting valuable energy that you need for your dreams, for your children, and for your
destiny.”
See the love of God? He meets us exactly where we are in our struggles. He beautifully had Ceri to record these messages and placed that one today on his wall as if they were done personally for me. God had that lady patting her head so I can see her as a reminder to get back there of me beating my head when these thoughts are getting the best of me and stealing my joy and emotional strength to take on my life. The love God shows me, I feel like the most loved person in the world by Him. So, please take my advice! Say that prayer and then wake up daily to have appointments with Him. I promise you, He is able to help us with our individual struggles as well as guide us on the best paths for our lives when we learn His voice and follow Him!!!! Trust me, God’s ways are always best!
“Jesus (God), what is your perspective on every moment of my life? Every relationship. Every decision. Every circumstance. And how can I enter into it to glorify you?”