We Roll 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

I said to a nun yesterday! “People get you and that your life is dedicated to God. But me, on the other hand, they think I’m this crazy God lady. You get to lock away to yourself and be with Him, but I have to go out into the world where I’m misunderstood by everyone.” And on and on I went with her!

But she listened and quietly responded, “Yes, I’ve dedicated my life to God and my life is in here (in the Catholic Church), but you’ve also dedicated your life to Him, but your work is out there.” Phew! Just the reality check I needed. Nik, just be about your work for God regardless of who understands you or not. Be even BETTER at it and take it more seriously! God is the Boss of your life, not other people! Heehaw!

Fast forward a few hours later, I’m breaking my fasting with a final word from God reading my meditation book, and He miraculously had something to add to my conversation with the nun. Continuing from where I had last left off reading, this showed up (written as if God was speaking directly to me):

“Haven’t I prepared everything in your life, in your homes, for a solitude for two (for you and Me!)? Wouldn’t even the nuns envy you?”

Wow! See how intimately present God is in our lives. Like He was letting me know He was right there with me in that conversation with that nun. And that question asked about preparing everything in my life and in my home to have alone times with Him made me feel terrible. I’ve been bragging how I had one little thought that I would like a nice, quiet place to meet God and a few days later hubby bought us new furniture for our bedroom where I can have my alone times with Him. So instead of me being jealous of the nuns, He asked, “Wouldn’t even the nuns envy you, Ms. Nikki?’ (SMILE)

And there you have it, folks, another God wink when out of the blue everything lines up strangely TOO PERFECTLY to be a regular coincident. It was God’s sweet way of reminding me of His Presence with me in every moment. He went to all this trouble to orchestrate this just to say, ‘Nik, I love you and I’m always with you.’ For me to continue reading this right after my conversation with that nun was all arranged by God, no doubt!

So, I want us all seeking Him in every moment asking what He would have us to do because a LOVE like this shouldn’t be wasted. He loves us all so much and He’s just patiently waiting for us to invite Him into our lives to give us a new perspective on EVERYTHING. Let me tell ya, me seeking a closer walk with Him has bountifully paid off. I look at where He has guided my life and I’m blown away. Start having your alone times with Him so that you can begin learning His voice and what He would have you to do in every moment of your life. The girls joined me today, and He said to them: MAKE TIME WITH ME A PRIORITY. A word to the wise is sufficient!

We have not stopped praying for you since the first day we heard about you. In fact, we always pray that God will show you everything he wants you to do and that you may have all the wisdom and understanding that his Spirit gives. Then you will live a life that honours the Lord, and you will always please him by doing good deeds. You will come to know God even better. His glorious power will make you patient and strong enough to endure anything, and you will be truly happy.
— Colossians 1:9-11 CEVUK

KEEP CALM—YOU’RE ROLLING WITH GOD

“…now I hold my head super high with TOO MUCH love for myself!!!” GLORY BE TO GOD!!!
HERE’S THE DEAL:
The world has its way of keeping us down and depressed. Everyone focuses on our negatives, our mistakes, and failures, but in my appointments with God, He switches the scripts. He reminds me that I’m unconditionally loved and approved by Him no matter how many times I mess up. ‘Nik, you know you’re my girl.’ Is the constant message I feel from Him. With HIS LOVE backing me up, I can say to the world, “Yes, I’m a BIG screw-up MOST of the times, but by the grace of God, I’m trying to be BETTER.
Even if you’re at letter Z, God wants to help you to get to an A. At this moment, maybe I’m like a K from that A, but I keep my eyes fixed and God, and moment by moment I lean on Him asking what He would have me to do. Believe it or not, my weaknesses and failures are BRINGING ME CLOSER TO HIM. So, something “negative” God turns around and uses it for my good because it’s forcing me to seek Him more for guidance. God, I NEED YOU!!!
POINT IN CASE:
“Nikki, why did you say that?!?” was me yesterday at a get-together. Then 10 minutes later in another conversation, “Nikki, why did you say that?!? My mouth! Let me tell ya, I’m forever getting myself in trouble. But it’s OK! Today, I’ve learned from those failures of yesterday, and after all those missteps, I’m more alert to them. I want to just stay in my quiet room with God where I stay out of trouble, and He says to me that I’m to go out again today. ‘Yes, Father.’ The plan is to pause, though, and seek God’s input before saying ANYTHING! He even said to me this week in an appointment with Him: “Silence is wisdom.” Wink! Wink! I’m certainly a work in progress there, God! LOL!
But let’s all lighten up on ourselves and others! NOBODY’S PERFECT. These people judging us have the same amount of failures and mistakes as we do. We’re all BOZO’S on the bus BUT LOVED IMMENSELY BY OUR CREATOR, DESPITE OUR FLAWS. And that’s where I get my confidence from. I know I’m no better and no worse than anyone else but I can hold my head high, LOVE ME, and keep working on constant and never-ending improvement with my focus on God and HIS deep love and approval, not the world’s.
Our lives are His dream! Let’s go the extra mile in loving and forgiving ourselves and others over the past, and keep living God’s dream, baby! He has the best plans for us!
“But this little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine. GLORY BE TO GOD.” Even if the world doesn’t understand or approve of me, I know God does. And His approval is enough! Heads held high, everyone!
KEEP CALM—YOU’RE ROLLING WITH GOD