EVEN MY WORST DAYS BECOME MY BEST DAYS WITH GOD!!!
Heehaw!!! Let me tell ya, don’t play around with your relationship with Him! I’m going for GOLD in every aspect of my life with God as my intimate GUIDE and PARTNER to the BLESSED life, baby. Like I was blown down the other day when there were some hurtful remarks thrown my way, and I’ve been asking God, ‘What are the lessons here?’ And He answered me.
First, it was a run with Nike Running Club featuring the “Bowerman Babes Club” and Coach Bennet. They are a group of Olympians who talked about how they not only work on their strengths but also their weaknesses together. They said the best way to get better is to not run from our weaknesses, but embrace them, work on them, and improve. And that was the reality check I needed. Nikki, you can’t be getting all tossed to and fro by every little negative comment that comes your way or what anyone else is saying!!! STAND STRONG!!! What are words to get you so upset and crazy! If you can improve, improve, but if there is nothing, become a PROFESSIONAL ignorer.
Next, it was Plies the rapper on Instagram. He said that in life, you must have TUNNEL VISION. You must be so focused on the lane that you’re running and not be concerned about what anyone else is saying doing in their lane. Stay focused on what you are doing and ignore the rest! These comments were just a pure distraction to get me off my groove. Let anyone say what they want, God is my Defender! Keep doing you, Nik!
Then, I felt God was saying I needed to relisten to the entire Rich Roll and David Goggins interview. Both of these gentlemen have been such tremendous assets to me. The most important message from Goggins was that I needed to work on was my MINDSET. The other day I wrote this, and this is the MINDSET I want to have for the rest of my life:
“As of yesterday, August 24, 2020, I want to give my life COMPLETELY to God. To wrap myself in His love (no other love necessary!) and go through every moment of my life, KNOWING I’m completely loved, approved of, and accepted my God. To be His girl totally, following His leading in every moment of my life as to what He would have me to do – complete surrender! To be the mother, wife, and person, He would have me to be. Not trying to get love from others, but just showing up as my most loving self, sharing God’s love with everyone. Like my brother, Kevin, taught me, I want to SHINE BRIGHT. Like if you’re not rolling with God, you’re missing out on the best life! I want everything about me to REFLECT Him:
“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”
I just wanna be His, glorifying and enjoying Him! That means continually keeping my focus on God as I walk through life wrapped up in His arms, sucking up all His love and attention!”
This is the wink from God this morning rereading this verse I shared yesterday:
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” – John 14:27
That’s exactly what I’m finding from God, He doesn’t give like the world. His love, faithfulness, peace, acceptance, approval, joy, strength, wisdom, happiness, closeness, direction, and favor are so far beyond what we can get from anyone or anything in this world. I love these posts that I found one day in an appointment with God:
“Happiness never came from the dependency upon people; happiness comes from dependency upon Allah/God alone.” – Tumblr.com via believeroftheunseen
“Don’t love people so much; don’t rely on people so much. It is deception, don’t love it, don’t love anything here. Allah (God) has made connections in this world like mother, father, husband, wife or friend to test you. Don’t put too much heart in this matter. – Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi
YOU MUST KEEP EVERYONE IN THEIR PROPER PERSPECTIVE!!! Don’t put too much heart into them. Hold them in their proper place – they are ordinary humans just like you with their own struggles, demons, and challenges. GOD MUST BE OUR NUMBER ONE FOCUS AND PRIORITY – FIRST PLACE IN OUR LIVES. Then, with His love backing us up, we can then love others from His heart, His way, and with His strength. When others hurt, reject, disappoint us, or the world gets to be too much for us, we can immediately shake off the negative emotions (including worry and discouragement), hand them over to God, and focus on God’s love that never runs out. The real us, His children, can never be rejected. And those who hope in Him will not be disappointed! No matter how many times we fall and fail, His love is continuous and unfailing. We can trust His faithfulness.
In fact, these constant falls that I’ve been complaining about, have been so good for me. I’ve fallen directly into the arms of God. Now my life has become, He and I. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, I know who I roll with on the daily: GOD.
And He finds the sweetest ways to let me know He is with me. Like this crazy God nerd here took another picture of my neighbor’s license plate a few days ago because of the word “HUG” that’s special to God and me. I made it my screen saver today, though, on my phone. So, after asking God what page of werollwithgod.com I should go to hear from Him, I got a feeling to go to page 24, and unbelievably, a very ugly picture of myself is there holding up my phone with this very screen saver from the picture of it I took five months ago. It was God’s way of saying, ‘Nik, HUG! I have My arms all around you!’ And around you too! MAKE GOD FIRST PLACE IN YOUR LIFE!
“When you go through deep waters, I will be with you.” – Isaiah 43:2
“…You don’ agree with many of my decisions, but yet I’m the most successful person you know?” That was me having some fun with my daughter, Julie, last night. We were having a special dinner at Chilli’s, and I was asking her and my other daughter, Ember, some conversation questions and this one I especially enjoyed:
“How should success be measured? And by that measurement, who is the most successful person you know?” – conversationstartersworld.com
Both of my daughters said that I’m the most successful person they know based on success being measured by characteristics such as peace, joy, following God’s will, and living a life of purpose. Woohoo!!! They especially love how despite people thinking I go a little bit overboard with my God stuff, I still follow my heart no matter what anyone else thinks of me. I told them I love being the crazy God lady because normal is boring. I do me, and doing me as led my life on an extraordinary path and a pretty great life.
Honestly, I was so thrilled hearing this from these daughters who are forever telling me that they don’t agree with my choices. Now they get to put it all in the proper perspective – these choices have been what have gotten me here to this life what they consider successful. And it’s because I have made God my Life Partner. He is my number one priority and focus. I go to Him in the 1,000 decisions I make every day asking what He would have me to do. I follow His will, seeking to be obedient to Him, and He truly gives me more than I can ever imagine or expect. I pretend that there is a wooden bar (a yoke) connecting me with God as I go through life with Him. I take on the lighter parts and I hand the difficult parts over to God. His ways are not our ordinary human ways, they’re so much better!!! Don’t miss out!
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” – John 14:27
“WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THE KINDNESS OF MY GOD?”
That was me thanking and kissing my daughter, Ember, last night. She had cooked me the most delicious curry chicken ever, and I was eating it and thanking God for the beautiful life He has guided me to with even this excellent and outstanding sweetie who cooks for me (forget spoilt kids, I’m the spoilt mama!). Fast forward about an hour or so later, I went to have an appointment with God reading the new manuscript that I’m currently compiling with my old posts. I used the scroll key on the side, randomly asking God what He had to say to me, and I went directly to a post entitled:
“WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THE KINDNESS OF MY GOD?” Wink! Wink!
How could the very question I just asked Ember minutes before this show up so perfectly? It was one of my God winks where everything lines up a little bit too perfectly to be some ordinary coincident. It was Him revealing His invisible Presence with me. Earlier that day, I had run for 90 minutes with Him under my 47 trees, and whenever I circled around, I touched that last tree with both of my hands saying, “We’re together! We’re together! We’re together!” And this, question showing up, out of the blue like that, was Him sweetly saying back to me, ‘Nik, We’re together! We’re together! We’re together!’ HUGE SMILE!
“Wouldn’t you be embarrassed to wear that shirt because people may think you’re crazy for being associated with God?” was the question from my nephew, Duro, a little while ago. He gave me a gift of a t-shirt with “We Roll With God” printed on it and I was telling him how proud I would be to wear it. I asked him, “Can you think of anybody or BEING better to be associated with? It’s my honor to be considered a friend of God, and He said to me one day in an appointment that it would be His honor if I’m considered a friend of His.”
So, that’s where I want us all, proud ambassadors of God. Let’s make Him proud by being the people He would have us to be in every moment. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, His invisible Presence is with us. He knows EVERYTHING about us, including every thought we think. I’ve made Him my life Partner. He’s my number one priority and focus. And having Him as my number one is what has brought me to this beautiful life where I can ask,
“WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THE KINDNESS OF MY GOD?”
And I want you here, too! Today I have both of my daughters hanging out running around with me and it is my honor being their momma – they’re making us super proud. All glory goes to God for His advice in helping us in every aspect of our lives!
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“YOU CAN COUNT ON ME; I’LL BE THERE AS YOUR FRIEND”
Those were the lyrics I felt God singing to me some weeks ago through the reggae artist, Sanchez, and let me tell ya, yesterday He proved that I really can count on Him. I’m in the used car sales business, and despite having met all the conditions for approval with a bank for a customer, at the very last minute, the bank backed out of the deal. I need this bank, so all I could do was to try an alternative loan source, but after no luck, I had to take back the vehicle and return their money. Only thing was, they INSISTED on cashback and I had forgotten that due to COVID, the banks closed earlier on Saturdays. The very politely told me, ‘Sorry, Nikki, but if you don’t give me cash back, I will call the police.”
To avoid trouble and for the police not to come, I made a few phone calls, but everyone was out of town. I then go to the bank to get as much cash out of the ATM, and exactly where I parked, was a sign saying, “tow ZONE,” exactly as the song I was playing said something like, “in the ZONE” (Wink! Wink!). I laughed with God because I knew this was not some ordinary coincidence, it was His fun and sweet way of letting me know that His invisible Presence was there with me in this troublesome situation.
Getting back to the office, I counted all the cash I had between my purse and the office’s little petty cash, and was short precisely $25. I asked my assistant, Martha, if she had any money on her, and she pulled out her wallet, unbelievably EXACTLY $25, the only cash she had. Another God wink with Him saying, ‘Nik, I’m with you!’ That again lined up too perfectly to be coincident!
Then the app that customers agreed I could pay them the additional money through, they changed their minds and didn’t want it that way anymore. I said, ‘I’ll give you a company check for the difference.” Their reply was once again, “Sorry, Nikki, but if you don’t give me cash back, I will call the police.” Oh my goodness!
I came up with another idea and they agreed that I could do transfers to their account. Julie, Ember and Duro quickly helped me out because of daily transfer limits and just like that, the problem was resolved, no police involvement with God again proving that I can count on Him.
Our signs all over our business say, “In God we trust,” and I feel that we must conduct ourselves honoring Him. The wife sent me this text after they had left:
“Thank you for everything, and God bless you, your family, and your business.” I wished her the same.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.” – Proverbs 3:5-6
