LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE WITH GOD, PERIOD!!!

That’s my testimony, baby! I’m going with this verse:

“I (God) will instruct you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.” – Psalm 32:8

And this is where I find my purpose and joy in sharing with you all the details of my life and how I personally experience this intimacy with God and how He guides my life and shows up for me. Like in arguing with a lawyer this week about my faith in God, I shared this verse with him:

“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” – Jeremiah 29:13

I explained that God is like a shy person, waiting in the background of our lives for us to invite Him in; He doesn’t force Himself on us. But if we seek Him wholeheartedly, He will make us aware of His presence. Fast forward, less than two hours later, I’m having an appointment with God on our family’s website. Unbelievably, this verse showed up from a time when I spoke to some people about it over five years ago! I immediately sent it to this person, saying, “Wink! Wink!” No way this lined up as some ordinary coincidence; this very verse I shared from the entire Bible showed up in a down, tired moment I was having! It was a wink from God at both of us! I smiled with God, having no doubt whatsoever that this was Him revealing another glimmer of His invisible presence with me as if saying, “I’m right here with You, My Nik!”

And these glimmers of God’s Presence are what give me the courage, peace, and joy to take on my life knowing God Himself is with me, behind me, ahead of me, and within me, loving, guiding me along the best path for my life. Even when the journey gets tough, I know it’s still all in the hands of a very loving God who knows what’s best for me in every moment. I’m grateful even for the difficulties, because they bring me closer to God, deepening my spiritual strength and making me more and more into the person He would have me to be. I tell God not to go easy on me if I want to be this tough soldier on His behalf in the world, God, bring it on!!! Because I trust and know that whatever God allows to happen to me is best for me!

Make today the day you commit to walking even more closely with God! It was a prayer I said some seventeen years ago: ‘God, I want a closer walk with You’ that has guided me on this beautiful path walking with God, all day, every day, and I want the entire world here with me where we continually seek God in everything we do, everywhere we go, and everything we say, doing it all for His glory! Amen!