We Roll With God

I said to my daughters yesterday. I don’t want to say something I might later regret, so I posted an old blog, which had this at the very end:

“I loved our family’s appointment with God today that we should go as far as praying and asking God for help in learning to forgive and love the difficult people in our lives. I CAN’T GET OVER HOW HE HAS CERTAINLY HEALED MY LITTLE BROKEN HEART!”

Fast forward to maybe an hour later and still in my messed-up mood from ANOTHER BROKEN HEART (LOL), I finally opened up my meditation book to see what God had to say to me, and unbelievably I opened to this powerful message from Him:

“STAY CLOSE TO ME (GOD) as I work on mending your BROKEN HEART. Of course, your repaired heart will not be exactly as it was before, but in some ways it will be much better. Your renewed heart—stripped of its cherished hopes—will have more space for Me.” – Jesus Calling by Sarah Young

Woohoo! Yes, please God, I want more of You!!!

This was another one of my God winks where everything lines strangely too perfectly. For me to pick that old post of all the thousands of them I’ve written, and for me to open to THAT page in a book of over 700 pages and even to read THAT book of all my meditation books was God coming down and wrapping His arms around my BROKEN HEART and letting me know that He’s with me.

I will never get over the sweetness of God and how He will find some way to orchestrate something so that I’d know His invisible Presence is ALWAYS with me. The hurts and disappointments will always be there too, but at least with God’s Presence, I can calmly and manly handle them. With my eyes fixed on Him, I can go the extra mile in love, ALL FOR HIS GLORY. 

Are you making your relationship with God a priority? He sometimes leads us down some extremely difficult paths and asks us to make some tough decisions, but when we follow His leading being our best, most loving and forgiving selves, trusting Him with all our hearts and that He would be the One to pay us back for any wrongs, He guides us on the path to the best life. Wink! Wink!

KEEP CALM—YOU’RE ROLLING WITH GOD

A Facebook friend asked me one day! I replied, “No, not in the normal sense, but I do consider myself the daughter of the King of Kings – God, so that makes me royal in His Kingdom, right?” And let me tell ya, God MAKES ME FEEL LIKE ROYALTY with all the love and attention I receive from Him ON A DAILY BASIS. No matter the challenges, disappointments, hurts, and frustrations that come my way, He’s always there helping and guiding me. He hasn’t disappointed me yet, and I know He’s not about to start now! I’m staking my entire life on God, and I want you here with me!

HERE’S THE DEAL:

I’m living the dream! He has beautifully guided my life, and I don’t want you guys to miss out! Jeremiah 29:11 says:

“FOR I KNOW THE PLANS I HAVE FOR YOU,” DECLARES THE LORD, “PLANS TO PROSPER YOU AND NOT TO HARM YOU, PLANS TO GIVE YOU HOPE AND A FUTURE.”

But the devil is always looking to distract us and take us away from God and His grand plans for us. When we allow bitterness, hurt, anger, grudges, feelings of being mistreated and offended, envy, rejection, jealousy, and sadness take root, we’re letting the devil in. We’ve given him entry into our lives and have allowed him to take us away from God’s perfect guidance and direction. The Bible says, “God is love,” and whenever we move away from being our most loving and forgiving selves, we move away from God’s direction and His excellent plans!

I confessed to my hubby today how I was feeling last week, and how the devil had me believing all the lies he was putting in my head, but that this week I’m back to being the super proud wifey. I told him how I was looking at him work yesterday with such love in my heart asking myself how I could’ve been so silly. God has melted away all those nonsense thoughts and replaced them with lots of love. I’m looking forward to every day of our future together, LIVING OUR BEST LIVES WITH GOD!

So, regularly catch yourself when you’re allowing the devil in with thoughts of revenge, bitterness, unforgiveness, and sadness and immediately switch back to God’s ideas of love, kindness, forgiveness and FAITH. LOVE YOUR ENEMIES!!! I’m not going to let anyone keep me away from God’s blessings, baby!

I loved our family’s appointment with God today that we should go as far as praying and asking God for help in learning to forgive and love the difficult people in our lives. I can’t get over how He has certainly healed my little broken heart!

KEEP CALM—YOU’RE ROLLING WITH GOD

Asked a customer when I told him that we were having a BBQ. I replied, “We’re celebrating the glory of God where every day is a celebration with Him!” That’s my attitude, baby! Every day is a celebration with God when we focus on His BLESSINGS.

God got me all emotional today while exercising. I had placed the music on shuffle and said to God that He was my DJ. When the song, ‘I Gotta Be’ played, I stopped and just held my hand in the air, praising Him. I believe it’s God singing these words to me and you:

“I gotta be the One you love
I gotta be the One you feel
And I gotta be the One to fill your life with sunshine”

Let me tell you guys a secret: I LOVE DISAPPOINTMENTS!!! Because any disappointment is fuel and motivation for me to get CLOSER to God. That’s why I got so emotional when I heard that song play. After a BIG disappointment this week, I felt this coming up in my exercise playlist was God’s way of reminding me,

Nik, “I gotta be the One you love
I gotta be the One you feel
And I gotta be the One to fill your life with sunshine”

And when my eyes are focused on Him, who cares about the little disappointments! God has FILLED my life with such sunshine that all day long I’m just saying, ‘God, Thank YOU!’ This part of the song, I sing to Hi,:

“Is this real, what I feel
Could it be you and me till the end of time
Take my heart, hold it tight, its true love.”

And with God holding my heart, NOBODY CAN HURT ME. I shake off the frustrations, and I fix my eyes on God asking what He would have me to do in every moment.

I called hubs to say I was coming to the office to study with the kids and he said, “Come, I’ll grill fish for you.” I smiled with God, ‘You have filled my life with sunshine!’ Wink! Wink! As I type this, I’m eating the most delicious fish ever! Let’s reflect His love in everything we do and say, going the extra mile in forgiveness, kindness, gentleness, mercy, and faithfulness.

KEEP CALM—YOU’RE ROLLING WITH GOD

I loved reading this in an appointment with God yesterday with my daughter, Ember. We were taking a break from organizing inventory at our office. This was also a reminder to include me in that fresh start. I was beating up myself all that day that our stock had gotten to such a disorganized state, and I was not aware of it.
Quite frankly, in looking back, I was thinking about the wrong things. The worries, insecurities, frustrations, disappointments, sadness, and fears had gotten the best of me. But today is a new day and like my wise sister taught me, “When you know better, you do better!” So, today I’m in my sneakers, jeans and office shirt with no make-up because I’m joining the crew in Operation Get Inventory Organized.
Again, I’m aiming to be the best in everything I do! No crying over what’s happened in the past. I’m giving the world and myself a fresh start!
Glory to God for His unbelievable help in all of this! From helping me to see my life more clearly and where I’ve been getting it wrong. The most important job I have from Him is to be my most loving and forgiving self in every situation and experience. From that loving perspective, I can then respond to whatever comes my way from a calm, gentle and forgiving spirit asking God to direct my thoughts and actions on a moment by moment basis.
The fasting has been a tremendous help. It is teaching me to catch myself when my mind wants to get caught up in thinking about the wrong things and to have the discipline to change my thoughts. Like John Joseph taught me, once you can control the tongue, which fasting is showing me, I can train the rest of my body, including my mind.
Now, instead of negative, cluttered thinking, my mind is thinking all the higher things of life and learning to LOVE EVERY MOMENT. Yesterday that meant with all the work, jamming our fav music and making it a fun and enjoyable exercise. That’s how we do!
“Today, and every day is a beautiful day simply because God made it.”
KEEP CALM—YOU’RE ROLLING WITH GOD

That was me to my super daughter, Ember, a few minutes ago. She was telling me how she plans on improving herself and said, “No, mommy, I want to develop a new MINDSET.” When she said “MINDSET,” I immediately rushed back to the calendar God speaks to me through. Five minutes before our conversation, I had read:

“In order to effectively fulfill your mission, you need to embrace new MINDSETS and outlooks that will help you personally change.”

AGAIN, NO COINCIDENT! This was another one of my God winks when out of the blue everything lined up strangely too perfectly. What are the chances of me reading about embracing a new mindset in this 365-day calendar, and five minutes later my daughter tells me about her new mindset? I thought she was playing me at first, but when I rushed back and saw that calendar, I knew she was genuine, and most importantly it assured me of God’s Presence with our family. The verse at the end even confirmed this:

“The Lord is NEAR to all who call upon Him.” – Psalm 145:18

I had brought this calendar to my desk earlier today because I felt I needed to hear from God through it, and He didn’t disappoint! And strangely enough, I did a video on the new mindset I’m learning from David Goggins. I had spent 2 hours with him on Tuesday for my appointment with God watching his appearance on the Rich Roll podcast to promote his book, ‘Can’t Hurt Me.’ And another 2 hours the following day with my daughters watching it AGAIN. I picked up that instead of getting angry when bad things happen to us, we can have a different mindset by turning that anger into fuel to motivate us to be better with a Can’t Hurt Me attitude.

So, it turns out God was preparing me for a BIG DISAPPOINTMENT yesterday night. And what did your girl do? Instead of getting angry, I went directly into Can’t Hurt Me mode turning that anger into fuel to stay up late studying with my daughters who both are striving for ALL A Honour Roll, baby, and to spend some time alone with God to get my MINDSET on what HE would have me to be thinking about.

Are you always obedient to God? I knew He would have me to forgive and show mercy, and to refocus my energies into more positive things. And I did exactly that. I feel this calendar was Him saying, ‘I saw your new mindset, Nik, and the way you calmly dealt with that situation! I’m super proud of you, My girl!’ Thanks, My love! Anything to please You, let me learn!

And that right there is the way to living YOUR BEST LIFE WITH GOD! I will move JOYOUSLY FORWARD with Him as my Guide. Amen.

KEEP CALM—YOU’RE ROLLING WITH GOD

I had an appointment with God, and it made me feel terrible that I had said I would have an hour alone with Him every day and I haven’t been consistent. I had said to God I would like a nice, quiet spot to have our times together, and VOILA, my husband buys us a new sofa set for our bedroom. And despite all this comfort, I would let life distract me from God. Right then and then, after that book reminded me of this, I committed again to my appointments with God. I thought, ‘Just how my exercise s a must every day, so will be my one hour with God!’

Maybe like 20-30 minutes later, I decided to read from the new book I’m working on of compiling these daily posts, and unbelievably look what showed up on the very page I randomly scrolled to:

“I’ve decided to make Him a BIGGER priority this year! Just how I wake up and say my exercise is a must, well, my time with God is a must! I will discipline myself to spend one hour with Him every morning reading my meditation books and asking what He has to say to me.”

No coincident! Like God took me DIRECTLY to that section of my book where I had written what I had JUST THOUGHT in my head less than 30 minutes prior! God couldnt have gotten more specific than that: ‘YES, NIKKI, I WANT TO SPEND TIME ALONE WITH YOU EVERY DAY!!!” What kind of a love is this? Who am I that God wants to spend time with little old me. I took it has Him saying, Nik, it would be My honour and privilege to spend time with you. On that note, the appointments went up to two hours a day!!!

Today, He spoke to me CLEARLY through David Goggins. He nailed on the head so many issues that I need to work on. Like this wanting to please people. David said he has gotten over that and now says, “If you don’t like me, pick a number and get to the back of the line.” I second that, David! I want my focus on God and whether people like me or understand me and what my life’s purpose is about, is not my business. God is my audience, and I want to be the unique, best and authentic version of the Nik He has created me to be. No more trying to play a character that people will accept and approve of. I gots to do me!

And that right there is what time alone with your Creator can do for ya! Do you have alone times with Him? His love is ENOUGH!! And His wisdom to guide our lives is always ASTONISHING!

“May no one surpass us in our desire for holiness.”

KEEP CALM—YOU’RE ROLLING WITH GOD

That’s what He did to me this morning! I had an appointment with my daughter, Ember, to exercise in her room at 5:30 am, but because she didn’t sleep well, she canceled on me. I told her I would do it somewhere else, but she insisted that I stay, and I happily accepted her offer. While there, I noticed a TRANSPARENT ROSARY on her bedhead and I wondered, ‘Where did Ember get this rosary?’ because we’re not Catholics. Fast forward to my alone time with God on Tumblr.com about an hour later, guess what miraculously appeared in my search for “FAITH” posts? A TRANSPARENT ROSARY!

That was not coincident! It was another one of my God winks where out of the blue everything lined up a little bit too perfectly! Like what are the chances of me focused on that rosary in my daughter’s room to the SAME transparent rosary showing up on Tumblr?!? It was God’s sweet way of reminding me and you that there is never one moment when He is not with us. And that He incredibly knows EVERYTHING about us INCLUDING EVERY THOUGHT WE THINK! Nothing about our lives ever escapes His loving attention! I’m with David who wrote this maybe 3,000 years ago:

“O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.” – Psalm 139

So, if God is always with us, I want us doing everything as if HEAVEN AND GOD are our ONLY audience watching us. No need to worry about the approval of people, let’s ask what would please God, instead and do that. Let me tell ya, people can love you today and hate you tomorrow (I speak from experience! LOL!), but God’s love for us is unconditional and everlasting. He knows the worst about us, yet He loves us more than everyone in the world put together possibly can.

For me yesterday, with Heaven and God as my audience, I bragged to my husband and kids that I have to be the best mother and wife, not second best! I feel so BLESSED to have them! But can you believe God had something to add in an appointment with Him shortly after that when this showed up in one of my meditation books:

“May no one surpass us in our desire for holiness.”

As if God was saying, ‘Yes, Nik, I love that you want to be the best mom and wife, but don’t let anyone pass you in being My number 1 girl!”

God, may that never happen! And on that note, I spent two hours enjoying God in our alone time together! Are you seeking a closer walk with Him?

KEEP CALM—YOU’RE ROLLING WITH GOD

DISCIPLINE! It’s gotten me up every day to exercise, to drink my awful tasting veggie smoothie, and most importantly, TO KEEP MY MIND STAYED ON GOD.

Let me tell ya, if you see me hitting myself in the head, it’s because I want to REFOCUS on the thoughts God Himself would have me to think! Nik, we gots no time for this nonsense thinking you got going on right now. When thoughts of despair and discouragement want to get the best of me, I’ve DISCIPLINED MY MIND to say, ‘No, no, no, our hope is in God, sweetie! He hasn’t let us down yet, and He’s not about to start now.’

When the crazy lady wants to come out, I check her right away with another hit on the head saying that in EVERY moment we’re going to stay on the HIGH road with God doing what He would have us to do. And that is pretty much summed up with three words from the Bible: GOD IS LOVE. With one glance in His direction I know EXACTLY what He would have me to do. The crazy lady goes away!

If I’m feeling unloved, that’s another hit in the head! Girl, please, God’s love is enough! The way He shows me such attention, NO MORE STARVING FOR LOVE, I’m FULL of God’s love!

Like every day we chat about what HE wants me to discuss in the posts and videos because I say they’re my gifts to Him for all He does for me. So, today, when the word discipline showed up a few times in an early morning appointment with Him, I spoke to Him about it and can you believe He confirmed it? I used the scroll key on my phone to randomly pick a post from my book and the second post turned out to be the one entitled, STAY DISCIPLINED! Out of 366 posts, this was no coincident, just God reminding me that HE IS ALWAYS WITH ME. How sweet is that? The Creator of the entire universe is intimately involved in my little life.

DISCIPLINE, my wonderful people, is the way to an incredible life with God. I’m taking it with me AGAIN into 2019 and I’m adding one more word: LOVE.

KEEP CALM-YOU’RE ROLLING WITH GOD