“THANKS FOR NOT GETTING TIRED OF ME”
That was my text message to my brother, Kevin, a few minutes ago. I call him 10,000 brothers because of the genuine love and support I receive from him. He is my special adviser in every aspect of my life! I know I have disappeared a little on you guys because Kevin was the one who fussed me out for two hours to leave my hubby in Nigeria and get back to our business here in the US. The spolit wifey now has to work hard but I’m enjoying the family hustle like Kevin also advises me on. Here’s an old post that inspired me recently:
GIVE YOUR HEART TO GOD
AND TO GOD ALONE!!! Let me tell ya, you don’t want to miss out on the most significant relationship ever with GOD HIMSELF!!! I’m in a new realm of closeness with Him now, baby. Like yesterday, a new friend keeps telling me he will buy a car from me. We have some pretty sacred conversations that God uses to reveal His Presence with me. The thing is pretty freaky!
Yesterday, he told me about a friend who was so brokenhearted over a lady he was having a long-distance relationship with and found out the lady had just given birth to a baby for another man. I held my hand to him as if I was holding a heart. I said, “Your heart should only belong to God. Don’t give it to anyone else! They are only going to break it! Once you know God is the complete owner of it, you handle everyone in their proper perspective.”
Fast forward a couple of hours later, I felt my spirit saying to go and read from my meditation book, ‘Jesus As Friend’ and look what incredibly showed up:
“Guarding the heart means KEEPING IT FOR GOD…Guarding the heart also means loving purely and passionately those whom we ought to love, while excluding the jealousy, envy and restlessness which are sure sources of disorder in love.”
That was no coincidence, guys!!! God wants to be the sole owner of our hearts!!! One day this friend asked me to hang out with him outside of work, and I said to him that I was infinitely percent faithful to my husband, that I am his ride or die and whatever we must go through, we’ll go through it together. I explained that I’m God’s prototype for a wife, mom, and person. The next day, I ran to God in a rough moment, and this showed up in an old post:
“Google defines a prototype (Wink! Wink!) as “someone or something that serves as a model or inspiration for those that come later.”
Again, no coincidence! I took that as an extra special wink from God to inspire you as the superhero wife, mom, and person on God’s behalf. No matter what anyone else is doing, I want God to hold full possession of our hearts, then share His love with the world – HOLDING EVERYONE IN THEIR PROPER PERSPECTIVE! Don’t give your heart to anyone!!! Just love everyone genuinely and purely with God’s love! Got that? This old post explains where God wants us:
“It was my brother, Kevin, who said to me under my God tree one day something like, “Neeks, you’re like a boxer right now. You eventually get numb to the pain after getting hit in your head like 10,000 times.” That’s what has happened. The figurative (not real, guys!) blows don’t affect me like they did in the past. The emotional, weak, and wreck of a person needed to go! This was all God’s LOVING way to help me become the Neeks He would have me to be: courageous, tough, brave, strong, confident in Him woman, but at the same time, loving, gentle, loyal, faithful, enduring, kind, and going the extra mile wife, mother and person HE WOULD HAVE ME TO BE. Thanks to the pain!
One Sunday, I was at brunch with Kevin when an elderly server said, “You have to have a shield on so that nothing gets through to bother and upset you.” I wake up now and put on my shield. The disappointments still come, but with my shield on, I don’t let them get to me anymore the way they used to. I now live from a space of having one foot on earth with the hurts, disappointments, messiness, clutter, challenges, and brokenness exist, and the other foot in heaven FOCUSED ON GOD.”
Can we all serve as God’s prototypes, bringing heaven to earth by being His representatives, especially in our homes? God’s ways are not our ordinary human ways. Like I told hubby with the boys today, “If we ask anything more of you, we would be greedy!” God has been teaching me to focus on the angels and innocence of others, not their demons and guilt. Me included! I’m still my own biggest enemy! We’re all a constant work in progress.
“Learn to get good at covering the offenses of others,” is what Victoria Osteen taught me. We do that for God and ourselves so that we don’t waste precious time and energy getting bitter, angry, upset, and constantly frustrated, replacing those emotions with love, forgiveness, gentleness, kindness, and patience. I leave everyone on their journey with God while focusing on running my race the best I can. I had such a beautiful evening picking up and hanging out with my super sons! Super wife, momma, and person, all for God’s glory! I get to show up every day knowing He has my back! My help comes from the Lord! Wink! Wink!