IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE WITH GOD

That’s my testimony! I still have my sad, difficult, and challenging times, but I’m learning to enjoy every day knowing God is with me in every moment. Like yesterday, I had an anxious time in the middle of my morning run with Him, after an upsetting email. No shame in my game, I stopped to have an appointment with God. I continued from where I had last left off reading from my book, ‘Keep Calm, You’re Rolling With God’

“I had to send out some important paperwork in regards to a big ball I have in the air, one that gets me anxious at times, and there in line at the post office, I cried as I read another message from God:

“You have Me on your side, so what are you worried about?”

Dear God, may we all relax, knowing You are intimately involved in every detail of our lives. Amen.”

For me to open up right to that message was all God reminding me of all the many times where there is no doubt in my mind that it was Him working behind the scenes of my life that helped me through so many difficulties. No doubt whatsoever. God has faithfully been on my side my entire life. Even situations that I thought were initially bad for me have all turned out to be excellent experiences to mature me and mature my faith in God. Your girl here ain’t worried bout nothing. Whatever comes my way, I know God is there to help me get through. WE FEAR NO STORMS.

Therefore, we can relax and enjoy life at peace and joyful. “‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.” God is at work in the supernatural realm on our behalf. We don’t have to handle life alone.

Yesterday, I had a meaningful conversation about a vehicle with our business manager. I said to him, “Let’s pray about it. Before we make any decisions, I want us going to God and asking what it is He would have us to do.”  God is an expert in everything, and He knows what we do not know. The feeling that gives us peace when we think about it is God saying, ’Yes, go this way.’ If we feel stressed, uneasy, or doubtful about a certain direction, that’s God saying, ‘No, don’t do this.’ So all day long, in every aspect of our lives, I want us seeking God’s input in the 1,000 decisions we make. His ways are not our ordinary human ways, they are so much better. Wink! Wink!

Let’s be about enjoying this wonderful life knowing our Partner, Teacher, Guide, Strategist, Planner, Friend, Father, Counselour is always with us. Amen!

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FORGET WORST YEAR; THIS WILL BE MY BEST YEAR EVER

As I get closer to God! Woohoo!!! Oh my goodness, He makes me feel so loved. Like I called my sister, Verona, to tell her how I’m STILL trying to free myself from the SHACKLES of mental slavery. I get so upset at myself for thinking THE WRONG THINGS. I even sent her an old video I did about this same freeing myself from shackles issue at around 9 pm with a text saying, “The chains are coming off, baby.”

Fast forward to the very next morning after 6 am, I opened up a book that I recently found and placed in our bathroom. It incredible said:

“Enclosed and SHACKLED (Wink! Wink), he cried to God for help.”

For that word “shackled” to show up was no ordinary coincident. It was God reminding us all that He is intimately involved in our lives, including our struggles. I opened DIRECTLY to that page! God is pretty talkative once you get to know Him!

Then, the title of that page was ‘Freed from Our Cage,’ when the crazy thing was that I had just told my daughter, Julie, about an Instagram post with a picture of an open cage with a bird flying out of it. I honestly felt it was God saying I should release my husband from the cage I was trying to confine him to, not knowing it was God saying I need releasing also. (LOL!!!) The book continued:

“And with thundering power, He “reached down…and took hold” of him. God can do the same for us. He can break the chains and release us from our confining cages. He can set us free and carry us “out into a spacious place.” How sad it is, then when we keep running in small circles, as if we’re still confined in our old prisons. In His strength, may we no longer be bound by fear, shame, or oppression. God has rescued us from those cages of death. We can run free.”

Amen! I claim this for us all. May anything that is holding us down and holding us back be removed by God’s strength. I need these awful thoughts to go from my head. What do you need removed? Let’s cry out to God, and by His strength, may we tackle them. Even if we fall a million times, let’s rise up a million and one, striving to be the excellent, going the extra mile in love, faith, and hope people He would have us to be. All for His glory. Amen.

Opening directly to this page was God’s sweet way of reminding us that He is in the fire with us. He is in the dungeon with us. He is in the storms of life with us. I pray we can recommit our lives to Him today as we make Him the center of all our decisions, not making any move without discussing it with Him first. We do our best and leave the rest with Him. (Wink! Wink!) Amen.

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“OH YES!!! I’M BLESSED!!!”

That’s me this morning singing along with Charlie Wilson in one of my fav songs, ‘I’m Blessed.’ Woohoo! This year started with me saying to God that I wanted to do HARD things for His glory, but when the hard stuff came, I was like, ‘GOD, WHAT IS THIS?!?’ God had your girl here in His school of HARD LESSONS, AND I’M SO HAPPY FOR THE EXPERIENCE. Yayy, God is about to turn my worst year into my best year because I’m getting closer to Him, as He promises never to leave or forsake me. Amen!

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”- John 16:33

Whenever this verse shows up for me anywhere, I feel like it’s a special message from God saying, ‘Nik, relax! Trust me. I’m sovereign over the entire world, remember. Wink! Wink!’ My latest fav verse from Him is this, though,

“Be still, and know that I am God.” – Psalm 46:10

In other words, ‘Nik, chill, I got this one.’ I’m beginning to learn God’s voice so clearly that I know the battles He would have me to take on and the ones I should leave with Him. I can put specific challenges in an imaginary package and say, ‘Thanks, God. You can handle this one.’ I can then go on with life, fighting the battles He would have me to wholeheartedly tackle, enjoying every day like a birthday, while trusting His direction to guide me through any storm like He has so many times in the past. Heehaw!

I had such a great time talking to my sister, Verona, this evening. I told her that I’m going with a prayer I heard from Devon Franklin: “These are my expectations, Lord, but give me Yours.” Amen! We should then spend enough time with Him so we can hear what He wants us to expect. Forget all the low expectations, God gives MORE than we can ask or imgaine. That has certainly been my experience with Him! The God stock always goes up, baby! Today, He reminded me of this so many times.

That’s why I don’t want us to grow weary in doing good, but, instead giving God more than He expects from us by being the excellent, loving, forgiving, brave, courageous, loyal, mannerly, going the extra mile kind of people He is calling us to be in every moment. Kk? Forget the former things, God is doing a new thing!

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ARE YOU ENJOYING GOD?

I am! I am! I am! He has the sweetest ways of showing up to let me know that He is involved in EVERY detail of my life and that I’m not going through life alone.

Like on Friday at work, I heard the song, Rockstar by DaBaby, play on the radio. I immediately downloaded it on my phone and had the best time listening to it repeatedly. Then on Saturday, still playing the song, I called my brother, Kevin, in the Bahamas and said, “We have to be God’s Rockstars.” Fast forward to Sunday, this was the first song I played on my morning run with God, and I was so happy, feeling like I was really God’s Rockstar. I even ended up going TOO hard on myself!

So, I get home, thinking the run was over, when Coach Bennet, from the Nike Running Club app, snuck in another 30-second interval of running on me. I was already home, and I thought, ‘I’m done! No more running!’ But something in me told me to finish out the last 30 seconds STRONG, and I did. At the end of it, Coach Bennet says, “YOU’RE A ROCKSTAR!!!” Wink! Wink!

Once again, and out of the blue, everything lined up extremely too perfectly to be some ordinary coincident and I was reminded that God’s invisble Presence is always with me. From hearing that song play on the radio on Friday, to me calling my brother the next day, to me beginning that run to that very song, and for Coach Bennet to say, ‘You’re a ROCKSTAR,” was all God’s sweet way of letting me know that I AM HIS ROCKSTAR, baby!

And for me, that means Heaven and God are my audiences as I go through life with my eyes fixed on making Papa God happy in every moment: ‘What would You have me to do here?’ It doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing, I MUST be obedient to God seeking my love and approval from Him, not from other humans who can love us one day and hate us the next. Kk?

That was the message to my daughter, Ember, after midnight last night when she came to my bedroom crying. We read this from the Bible:

“So live like children who belong to the light. Light brings every kind of goodness, right living and truth. Try to learn what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the things done in darkness which are not worth anything. But show that they are wrong.” – Ephesians 5:8-11

I told her how I feel God in my spirit, nudging me along the path He has called me to walk. When I do that, He gives me more than I can ever ask or imagine from Him. Will you be His Rockstar? We may not get it right all the time, but can we aim to reflect God’s character of LOVE to a watching world?

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